Positioning Each Other: A Metasynthesis of Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration
Interprofessional collaboration between different professions within health care is essential to optimize patient outcomes. Community pharmacists (CPs) and general practitioners (GPs) are two professions who are encouraged to increase their collaboration. In this metasynthesis we use a meta-ethnogra...
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Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences
2020-05-01
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| author | Hilde Rakvaag Gunn Elisabeth Søreide Reidun Lisbet Skeide Kjome |
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| description | Interprofessional collaboration between different professions within health care is essential to optimize patient outcomes. Community pharmacists (CPs) and general practitioners (GPs) are two professions who are encouraged to increase their collaboration. In this metasynthesis we use a meta-ethnographic approach to examine the interpersonal aspects of this collaboration, as perceived by the professionals themselves. The metasynthesis firstly suggests that CPs and GPs have differing storylines about the cooperation between them. Secondly, CPs seem to position their profession in relation to the GPs, whereas GPs do not rely on the CPs to define their professional position. A successful collaboration between the two professions requires the CPs to reposition themselves through adopting a proactive approach towards the GPs. This proactive approach should comprise the delivery of specific clinical advice, as well as taking responsibility for this advice. In this way, they can build a more coinciding storyline of the joint agenda of improved patient care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-06927f6ee5a8466dbd0a6f1e7a7183532022-12-22T03:07:17ZengOslo and Akershus University College of Applied SciencesProfessions and Professionalism1893-10492020-05-0193Positioning Each Other: A Metasynthesis of Pharmacist-Physician CollaborationHilde RakvaagGunn Elisabeth SøreideReidun Lisbet Skeide KjomeInterprofessional collaboration between different professions within health care is essential to optimize patient outcomes. Community pharmacists (CPs) and general practitioners (GPs) are two professions who are encouraged to increase their collaboration. In this metasynthesis we use a meta-ethnographic approach to examine the interpersonal aspects of this collaboration, as perceived by the professionals themselves. The metasynthesis firstly suggests that CPs and GPs have differing storylines about the cooperation between them. Secondly, CPs seem to position their profession in relation to the GPs, whereas GPs do not rely on the CPs to define their professional position. A successful collaboration between the two professions requires the CPs to reposition themselves through adopting a proactive approach towards the GPs. This proactive approach should comprise the delivery of specific clinical advice, as well as taking responsibility for this advice. In this way, they can build a more coinciding storyline of the joint agenda of improved patient care.https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/pp/article/view/3883 |
| spellingShingle | Hilde Rakvaag Gunn Elisabeth Søreide Reidun Lisbet Skeide Kjome Positioning Each Other: A Metasynthesis of Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration Professions and Professionalism |
| title | Positioning Each Other: A Metasynthesis of Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration |
| title_full | Positioning Each Other: A Metasynthesis of Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration |
| title_fullStr | Positioning Each Other: A Metasynthesis of Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Positioning Each Other: A Metasynthesis of Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration |
| title_short | Positioning Each Other: A Metasynthesis of Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration |
| title_sort | positioning each other a metasynthesis of pharmacist physician collaboration |
| url | https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/pp/article/view/3883 |
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