Domain | Description |
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Care expertise (8 items) | Inter-disciplinary care requires collaboration between health professionals and patients and their families and circle of care in order to identify and take advantage of each person’s care expertise |
Shared power (4 items) | Willingness to share power as a commitment to create balanced relationship through democratic practices of leadership, decision-making, authority and responsibility |
Collaborative leadership (10 items) | Collaborative leadership (also called reciprocal or shared leadership) is a people—and relationship—focused approach based on the premise that answers should be found in the collective (the team) |
Shared decision-making (2 items) | Shared decision-making gives all team members, including patients, the opportunity to contribute their knowledge and expertise, to arrive collaboratively at an optimal goal |
Optimizing professional role and scope (10 items) | Exemplary inter-disciplinary care let all team members work to their full scope of practice and takes advantage of the synergies professionals working together can create |
Effective group function (9 items) | A health-care system that supports effective teamwork can improve the quality of patient care, enhance patient safety, and reduce workload issues that cause burnout among professionals |
Competent communication (8 items) | Competent communication—openness, honesty, respect for each other’s opinions and effective communication skills—is a part of all domains of inter-disciplinary practice |