2023 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 65-75
This study examined a model of interprofessional collaboration to determine how home-visit nurses and home helpers can adeptly collaborate to administer medication. Group interviews were conducted with 15 managers home-visit nurses stations and 13 individuals in charge of providing visiting care. Their responses were qualitatively analyzed. The results were integrated into a conceptual model of interprofessional collaboration from a previous study to create a model of interprofessional collaboration by home-visit nurses and home helpers regarding medication administration. The model yielded four prerequisites, four elements, and three results of interprofessional collaboration. After sharing more specific methods of administering medication by “Sharing and Consolidating Information,” home-visit nurses and home helpers began to “Administer Medication while Assigning and Augmenting Roles.” This practice occurred while home-visit nurses and home helpers were “Creating and Using Common Tools to Administer Medication.” home-visit nurses and their home helpers “Laid the Groundwork for Interprofessional Collaboration” to ensure proper functioning of interprofessional collaboration. “Laying the Groundwork for Interprofessional Collaboration” involved creating a community of practice that transcended the type of facility where one worked, one’s profession, and foundational elements in which one worked while collaborating. The usefulness of a model must be determined through practical applications, and the model needs to be further refined.
