Abstract
This paper aims to discuss how to establish and practice Interprofessional Work (IPW) for foot care. Although the importance of IPW has been acknowledged, we are still in the process of trial and error, searching how best we can create teams to realize effective and efficient care. At our hospital, we clarified challenges facing our foot care team by interviews with other types of professionals, refined them into goals of individual sections and at different stages, and then substantiated and implemented tasks to cope with. In the process, it was important for workers of different professions and sections to work under mutual trust through communication—an element of collaboration among team members implementing IPW. I believe this will enable the performance of new teams and care by each section and at each stage to result in limb salvage, a major goal of IPW for foot care.
