Ethical Issues In Interprofessional Teamwork

There is increasing pressure on health and social care professionals to work together collaboratively, with many health planning health care providers. Ethical issue in interprofessional teamwork is best to be resolved especially when interprofessional practice decisions are questioned by some other team members. For it is pertinent and essential for the team to work collaboratively. The reinforcement of shared values such as patient-centeredness, and development of a shared group identity is paramount.
As suggested by Ewashen, McInnis-Perry, & Murphy (2013), biomedical ethics, relational ethics, and virtue ethics offer various ways to know how to be ethical and to act ethically as healthcare professionals. Biomedical ethics is focused on position,

The propagating disagreement and conflict are delineated with the individual educational background and professional practice both acts as barriers to collaborative practice. Professional identification and multiplicity in interprofessional team is a problem. Ewashen et al (2013), suggest that understanding the difference is critical because it fosters respect for all professionals’ disciplines that are contributing to the team. It is very imperative for team members to consider the individuality; culture, and relevant moral principles of each person.
Research suggests that social classification on the basis of profession is likely to occur in professionally assorted teams because profession is an entrenched source of social classification (Bartunek, 2011 cited by Mitchell, Parker, Giles, & Boyle, 2014), with prequalifying education i.e. medical, nursing, and allied health, individual person has already established substantial professional identity (Adams, Hean, Sturgis, & Clark, 2006 cited by Mitchell et al, 2014). Professional identification will restrain the relationship in professional

With this perspective, the similarities and dissimilarities between each members results to the classifications into in-group and outgroup. The members of the in-group are must likely to share trust and a reward relationship when interacting with members. The outgroup will tend to be hostile, distance and withhold information.
Studies support that negativities in interprofessional team decreases trust and, consecutively, reduces the likelihood of openness to diverse perspectives (Panteli & Sockalingam, 2005 cited by Mitchell et al, 2014). Additionally, research into group functioning discovers that affective conflict is related to suspicion among team members, which results to a negative and competitive atmosphere (Mitchell et al, 2014). Conflict in a team lowers the levels of openness. When this occurs in healthcare, it is a