IPEC Core Competencies
VALUES AND ETHICS
Work with team members to maintain a climate of shared values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect.
VE4. Value diversity, identities, cultures, and differences.
VE5. Value the expertise of health professionals and its impacts on team functions and health outcomes.
VE6. Collaborate with honesty and integrity while striving for health equity and improvements in health outcomes.
VE7. Practice trust, empathy, respect, and compassion with persons, caregivers, health professionals, and populations.
VE10. Contribute to a just culture that fosters self- fulfillment, collegiality, and civility across the team.
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address individual and population health outcomes.
RR4. Differentiate each team member’s role, scope of practice, and responsibility in promoting health outcomes.
RR5. Practice cultural humility in interprofessional teamwork.
COMMUNICATION
Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.
C1. Communicate one’s roles and responsibilities clearly.
C2. Use communication tools, techniques, and technologies to enhance team function, well-being, and health outcomes.
C3. Communicate clearly with authenticity and cultural humility, avoiding discipline-specific terminology.
C4. Promote common understanding of shared goals.
C5. Practice active listening that encourages ideas and opinions of other team members.
C7. Examine one’s position, power, role, unique experience, expertise, and culture towards improving communication and managing conflicts.
TEAMS AND TEAMWORK
Apply values and principles of the science of teamwork to adapt one's own role in a variety of team settings.
TT2. Appreciate team members’ diverse experiences, expertise, cultures, positions, power, and roles towards improving team function.
TT4. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.