Inter- and Intraprofessional Practice – Complete
Reading & Study Guide 2025
In 1978, the Declaration of _____________ identified that primary health care and improvement in
health of the world's populations would rely in part on the ability of healthcare providers to work in
teams. ANSWER ✔✨---Declaration of Alma-Ata
What are some of the benefits of interprofessional care? ANSWER ✔✨---- Improved healthcare
delivery
-Reduced patient morbidity and mortality
T/F: The concept of interprofessional collaboration can be difficult to implement and measure.
ANSWER ✔✨---True
What are some barriers to collaboration? ANSWER ✔✨---- Macrolevel restrictions impacting
microlevel processes (IE outdated legislation, regulatory mechanisms, and practice protection)
- Issues of role clarity and understanding the scope and function of various roles
Interprofessional Team defined. ANSWER ✔✨---Comprises different healthcare disciplines working
together toward common goals to meet the needs of a patient population. Team members divide the
work based on their scope of practice, they share information to support one another's work and
coordinate processes and interventions to provide a number of services and programs.
Increased knowledge of different professionals' roles and functions, and how they can be optimized for
patient care, is required of interprofessional team members.
, Intraprofessional Team defined. ANSWER ✔✨---Composed of different nurses collaborating with
one another.
What is collaborative practice? ANSWER ✔✨---An interprofessional process for communication
and decision making that enables the separate and shared knowledge and skills of the care providers to
synergistically influence the client/care provided
Describe "Collaboration" ANSWER ✔✨---Has been described as a complex, voluntary, and dynamic
process with underlying concepts of power, interdependency, sharing, partnership, and process.
Through collaboration, interprofessional teams should be able to accomplish more than individuals
working alone or in tandem.
In the 1500s, professions were developed through _________ to "protect and promote their members
interests through the ownership of knowledge." ANSWER ✔✨---Craft guides.
Through these guides arose the healthcare professions.
Note: nursing did not professionalize until almost a century after medicine; thus the division of work was
not intentionally determined but developed over time through the influence of political and economic
factors.
How can interprofessional education help students? ANSWER ✔✨---Help students to learn about
one another's disciplines, core principles, or philosophies to identify collaborative methods for solving
problems, develop a shared vision of health, and facilitate common documentation practices.
CNA's definition of "Scope of Practice". ANSWER ✔✨---"Activities nurses are authorized, educated
and competent to perform".
Grounded in provincial or territorial legislation and regulations, "the registered nurse (RN) scope of
practice is complemented by standards, guidelines, policy positions, and ethical standards from
jurisdictional nursing regulatory bodies."
On an intraprofessional team, RNs are responsible to.. ANSWER ✔✨---Make decisions about what
functions team members perform in relation to providing high quality patient care.
In various staff mix models, there are ratios of RNs to practical nurses, as well as unregulated care
provided (IE healthcare assistants or aides). In such settings, RNs are responsible for delegating tasks
regarding patient care to these team members.
Reading & Study Guide 2025
In 1978, the Declaration of _____________ identified that primary health care and improvement in
health of the world's populations would rely in part on the ability of healthcare providers to work in
teams. ANSWER ✔✨---Declaration of Alma-Ata
What are some of the benefits of interprofessional care? ANSWER ✔✨---- Improved healthcare
delivery
-Reduced patient morbidity and mortality
T/F: The concept of interprofessional collaboration can be difficult to implement and measure.
ANSWER ✔✨---True
What are some barriers to collaboration? ANSWER ✔✨---- Macrolevel restrictions impacting
microlevel processes (IE outdated legislation, regulatory mechanisms, and practice protection)
- Issues of role clarity and understanding the scope and function of various roles
Interprofessional Team defined. ANSWER ✔✨---Comprises different healthcare disciplines working
together toward common goals to meet the needs of a patient population. Team members divide the
work based on their scope of practice, they share information to support one another's work and
coordinate processes and interventions to provide a number of services and programs.
Increased knowledge of different professionals' roles and functions, and how they can be optimized for
patient care, is required of interprofessional team members.
, Intraprofessional Team defined. ANSWER ✔✨---Composed of different nurses collaborating with
one another.
What is collaborative practice? ANSWER ✔✨---An interprofessional process for communication
and decision making that enables the separate and shared knowledge and skills of the care providers to
synergistically influence the client/care provided
Describe "Collaboration" ANSWER ✔✨---Has been described as a complex, voluntary, and dynamic
process with underlying concepts of power, interdependency, sharing, partnership, and process.
Through collaboration, interprofessional teams should be able to accomplish more than individuals
working alone or in tandem.
In the 1500s, professions were developed through _________ to "protect and promote their members
interests through the ownership of knowledge." ANSWER ✔✨---Craft guides.
Through these guides arose the healthcare professions.
Note: nursing did not professionalize until almost a century after medicine; thus the division of work was
not intentionally determined but developed over time through the influence of political and economic
factors.
How can interprofessional education help students? ANSWER ✔✨---Help students to learn about
one another's disciplines, core principles, or philosophies to identify collaborative methods for solving
problems, develop a shared vision of health, and facilitate common documentation practices.
CNA's definition of "Scope of Practice". ANSWER ✔✨---"Activities nurses are authorized, educated
and competent to perform".
Grounded in provincial or territorial legislation and regulations, "the registered nurse (RN) scope of
practice is complemented by standards, guidelines, policy positions, and ethical standards from
jurisdictional nursing regulatory bodies."
On an intraprofessional team, RNs are responsible to.. ANSWER ✔✨---Make decisions about what
functions team members perform in relation to providing high quality patient care.
In various staff mix models, there are ratios of RNs to practical nurses, as well as unregulated care
provided (IE healthcare assistants or aides). In such settings, RNs are responsible for delegating tasks
regarding patient care to these team members.
