Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care Synergy in Education and Practice

Chapter 1: Interprofessional Teamwork in Palliative Care
Chapter 2: Palliative Care: History, Terminology, and Definitions
Chapter 3: Profession-specific Roles in Palliative Care
Chapter 4: Professional Identity and Interprofessional Tension
Chapter 5: Theories and Frameworks Relevant to Interprofessional Collaboration
Chapter 6: Principles of Interprofessional Education (IPE) Applied to Palliative Care
Chapter 7: State of the Evidence for Interprofessional Education in Palliative Care
Chapter 8: Interprofessional Palliative Care Education in Academic Settings
Chapter 9: Interprofessional Specialty Palliative Care Clinical Education and Training
Chapter 10: Interprofessional Continuing Education
Chapter 11: Hospice: The Origins of Interprofessional Palliative Care
Chapter 12: More than the Sum of its Parts: Interprofessional Palliative Care in the Hospital Setting
Chapter 13: Critical Care, Emergency Department, and Crisis Scenarios
Chapter 14: Outpatient Palliative Care Clinics
Chapter 15: Home-based Palliative Care
Chapter 16: Interprofessional Palliative Care Philosophy as Standard Care Across Settings
Chapter 17: Looking Forward in Interprofessional Palliative Care

Strong professional identities are key to healthy interprofessional teams. When each professional knows their distinctive role within the team, misunderstandings and defensiveness diminish and curiosity and supportiveness about the others' unique contributions blossoms. This book explores the state of the art related to interprofessional palliative care practice and education and focuses on the unique synergy of interprofessional palliative care teams. It explores both the unique specialty contributions of each profession and the shared specialty palliative care activities that all professions on the team are expected to perform.

With chapters written and edited by chaplains, nurses, physicians, social workers, and other professionals, this book includes in-depth literature review, theoretical frameworks for research, education, and practice, practical guidance for implementing educational and clinical program development, and inspiring descriptions of an aspirational future for intentionally interprofessional palliative care. Spanning three comprehensive sections, the first provides an overview of the discipline of palliative care, terminology, roles of team members, and theories of interprofessional collaboration. The second explores interprofessional palliative care education, beginning with theory and evidence and then application in academic settings, clinical learning environments, and continuing education. The third examines interprofessional practice in a variety of settings including hospice, hospital, outpatient clinics, and home.

Readers from any profession or discipline who are interested in the essence of interprofessional education and practice will find value in the interprofessional approach to palliative care. Professors and teachers of pre-licensure health professions, graduate level courses, and continuing education courses will find Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care to be a valuable resource, both for profession-specific and interprofessional learner cohorts.

Edited by DorAnne Donesky, Professor Emeritus, Physiological Nursing, UCSF, Michelle M. Milic, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (MGUH), Naomi Tzril Saks, Inpatient Palliative Care Chaplain, Chaplain Supervisor, and Director of the Individual and Collective Wellbeing Program, University of California, San Francisco, Cara Wallace, Associate Professor in the School of Social Work, Saint Louis University, and with Editorial Consultant Barbara A. Head