Interprofessional practice and professional identity threat

Title: Interprofessional practice and professional identity threat
Creator: McNeil, Karen Anne; Mitchell, Rebecca J.; Parker, Vicki
Relation: Health Sociology Review Vol. 22, Issue 3, p. 291-307
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.5172/hesr.2013.22.3.291
Publisher: eContent Management
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2013
Description: The implementation of interprofessional practice (IPP) within healthcare appears to be fraught with difficulties, despite the attention it has received in the literature. Although there are examples where IPP has reaped significant benefits, it has also been shown to impede team performance. We demonstrate that a key cause of failure in IPP can be attributed to interprofessional conflicts based on threats to professional identity, and provide insight into how professional identity faultlines have the potential to be activated and conflict induced when there is differential treatment of professional groups, different values between professions, assimilation, insult or humiliating action and simple contact within the team. This has significant implications for the management of interprofessional healthcare teams and provides information for team leaders and health managers.
Subject: interprofessional; teams; sociology; professional identity; identity threat; medical dominance
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066996
Identifier: uon:18320
Identifier: ISSN:1446-1242
Language: eng
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