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[Inter-Professional Communication Between Nursing Therapists and other Therapeutic Professions (Physio-, Occupation
Shiney Franz1,2,3, Jürgen Muser4, Ulrike Thielhorn5
1Medizinische Fakultät, Institut für Gesundheits- und Pflegewissenschaft, Universität Halle-Wittenberg.
Purpose:
A comparison of inter-professional communication within the core therapeutic teams including nurses in 5 neurological early rehabilitation hospitals of one non-profit organization was supposed to indicate factors facilitating and impairing cooperation.
Methods:
Data collection was conducted through analysis of architecture plans, passive participating observation in 10 wards and through partly standardized interviews (N=39). Participants were nurses, physio-, occupational and speech therapists. Data analysis used the method of Thick Description [1].
Results:
A permanent team, daily team conferences, treatments in cooperation, ward based training and informal talks influence interprofessional communication. Organizational and structural preconditions have effects on the quality of communication.
Conclusion:
Daily inter-professional briefings and the organization of training sessions within the team improve inter-professional communication, a confrontation nurses vs. therapists impairs it.
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