Dr. Jane Day is currently Head of Division for Practice Learning and Midwifery, within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at University Campus Suffolk. Her professional background is that of a therapeutic radiographer, and part of the responsibility within her current role is the management of the pre registration Interprofessional Learning Programme provided for all pre registration professional students at UCS.
Case Studies, drawn from multiprofessional settings, demonstrate scenarios and encourage readers to question how they practice and learn
Evidence Base feature boxes provide well-founded evidence-based research to aid understanding and ensure students maintain a clear focus.
Health Professional Speaks feature boxes provide clear real-life context to help students apply theory to real-life practice.
Student Speaking box features enable students to hear the voices of other students, useful for engagement and reflection.
The Over to You and Reflective Activity features encourage readers to follow up issues and think about the concepts under discussion.
Key terms emboldened in the text with definitions in the margin facilitate easy learning of key terminology.
Chapters conclude with Rapid Recap questions, with answers available at the back of the book – these really help students with knowledge retention and understanding.
Chapter 1 – Introduction – The key concepts of interprofessional working Chapter 2 – The context of interprofessional working Chapter 3 – Teams, teamwork and team dynamics Chapter 4 – Leadership and expertise Chapter 5 – Communicating with each other Chapter 6 – Interprofessional learning within a practice context Chapter 7 – Barriers to effective interprofessional working Appendix 1 –Rapid recap answers
