Nurse-Doctor Co-Teaching: A Path Towards Interprofessional Collaboration

Clinical Teacher (12/04/22) Piper-Vallillo, Emily; Zambrotta, Marina E.; Shields, Helen M.; et al.

Researchers launched a nurse-doctor co-teaching pilot program to characterize participants' perceptions of interprofessional collaboration. They hosted an hour-long focus group discussion and follow-up individual interviews with nurse-doctor teachers. The participants' accounts shed light on the changes in hospital culture that would be required to advance remote effective interprofessional learning and collaboration. Such shifts include the elimination of professional silos, inclusion of the nursing perspective, leveling of professional hierarchies and acknowledging nurses as clinical teachers. The researchers found the nurses and doctors perceived an equitable relationship as co-teachers hindered by institutional obstacles. "Successful interprofessional education may require culture and policy shifts that formally recognize nurses as valuable clinical teachers," they conclude.

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