Interprofessional education in nursing: The impact of collaboration between physical and mental health care professionals.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Interprofessional collaboration in the training of nursing and psychology students helps provide students of both disciplines with the ability and competences they need to best attend to their patients. This study implemented and analyzed a method for developing the competences of each discipline in a scenario of joint clinical simulation that incorporates mental and physical health simultaneously, and measured the caring ability of the participating students.

Methods

Participants took a self-applied survey measuring their own caring ability. After, a clinical simulation was performed where nursing students performed clinical interviews on psychology students, who acted as standardized patients. Caring abilities were measured in the nursing students, and the psych

SUBMITTER: Munoz-Rubilar CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7424145 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature