Date
12-19-2023
Department
School of Education
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
Chair
Michelle Barthlow
Keywords
interprofessional education, interprofessional team-base practice, team-based, clinical practices, IPE, IPEC, nurse, pharmacist, respiratory therapist
Disciplines
Education | Philosophy
Recommended Citation
Fuller, Tonya, "The Difference in Team-Based Clinical Practices Among Healthcare Professionals When Controlling Years of Experience" (2023). Doctoral Dissertations and Projects. 5124.
https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/doctoral/5124
Abstract
Research has demonstrated that future examination of individual’s personal contextual factors concerning interprofessional collaboration is yet to be determined. This quantitative causal-comparative study analyzed the team-based practices of nurses, pharmacists, and respiratory therapists. The primary examination of the study was to determine the differences among healthcare professionals’ interprofessional collaboration experiences by the Assessment Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS). The AITCS scoring system presents on a scale of 1-5 and measures three key collaborative practices: partnership, cooperation, and coordination. A total of 118 healthcare professionals, cutting across three professions: nurses, pharmacists, and respiratory therapists, were involved in this study. The independent variables in this study were the nurse, the pharmacist, and the respiratory therapist. Years of experience was the covariate. The dependent variables were the healthcare professionals’ partnership, cooperation, and coordination scores on the AITCS. The researcher used two one-way ANOVAs and one one-way ANOVA to run the analysis, observing no significant difference among the three groups. The researcher failed to reject the null hypotheses, because there were no significant differences among the three groups. The researcher inferred, despite contextual factors, healthcare professionals align when caring for critically complex patients and problem-solving on behalf of best clinical practice for the patient. Future researchers need to consider conducting this study with different healthcare systems and include a different combination of healthcare professionals in the sampling. A qualitative design could be considered and limiting the age to 21 through 25 years to participate in the study.
