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Interprofessional Practice in Palliative Care

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Interprofessional practice informed by and developed through interprofessional education is critical for working within modern healthcare contexts and particularly within healthcare teams. Palliative care is a complex area of healthcare delivery, and interprofessional practice is a way of working together learning from, with, and about other health professionals. This chapter explores the terminology used within the interprofessional working and learning contexts. The challenges, opportunities, and barriers to interprofessional practice are explored in relation to what they are and how they can be constructive instead of creating conflict. One model of interprofessional practice is discussed, and the stages health professionals need to work through are outlined. The importance of interprofessional teamwork and collaborative practice is recognized as being critical to develop in settings such as palliative care where the focus is on the patient and their family.

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  1. Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Marion Jones

  2. University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Jill Thistlethwaite

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  1. School of Medicine,Palliative Care, HammondCare, The University of Sydney School of Medicine, Sydney, Australia

    Roderick Duncan MacLeod

  2. VUB-UGhent End-of-Life Care Research Group, Department of Family Medicine and Chronic Care and Department of Clinical Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium

    Lieve Van den Block

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Jones, M., Thistlethwaite, J. (2019). Interprofessional Practice in Palliative Care. In: MacLeod, R., Van den Block, L. (eds) Textbook of Palliative Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77740-5_41

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