Domain 6: Interprofessional Partnership

Intentional collaboration across professions and with care team members, patients, families, communities, and other stakeholders to optimize care, enhance the healthcare experience, and strengthen outcomes.

6.1 Communicate in a manner that facilitates a partnership approach to quality care delivery.

g. Evaluate effectiveness of interprofessional communication tools and techniques to support and improve the efficacy of team-based interactions.

h. Facilitate improvements in interprofessional communications of individual information (e.g. EHR).

i. Role model respect for diversity, equity, and inclusion in team-based communications.

j. Communicate nursing’s unique disciplinary knowledge to strengthen interprofessional partnerships.

k. Provide expert consultation for other members of the healthcare team in one’s area of practice.

l. Demonstrate capacity to resolve interprofessional conflict.

6.2 Perform effectively in different team roles, using principles and values of team dynamics.

g. Integrate evidence-based strategies and processes to improve team effectiveness and outcomes.

h. Evaluate the impact of team dynamics and performance on desired outcomes.

i. Reflect on how one’s role and expertise influences team performance.

j. Foster positive team dynamics to strengthen desired outcomes.

6.3 Use knowledge of nursing and other professions to address healthcare needs.

d. Direct interprofessional activities and initiatives.

6.4 Work with other professions to maintain a climate of mutual learning, respect, and shared values.

e. Practice self-assessment to mitigate conscious and implicit biases toward other team members.

f. Foster an environment that supports the constructive sharing of multiple perspectives and enhances interprofessional learning.

g. Integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into team practices.

h. Manage disagreements, conflicts, and challenging conversations among team members.

i. Promote an environment that advances interprofessional learning.