Inter-Professional Reflection

My learning experience within inter-professional was very productive. I personally learned about working in collaboration with other professionals. My first impression was the first seminar which took place in the auditorium with a group of students from different professionals in health care sector. The actual seminar was a very good preparation for me and everyone who is in health professionals. The seminar gave me a very understanding of my future practice. It prepared me well on what to expect as I was not aware of the purpose of mixing different students from different professionals. The outcome of the seminar gave me a clear understanding and gave me opportunity to meet other student. During the seminar, I learned the best way to work

together in collaboration with other professionals and how is very important to do it. Collaboration is an approach of learning which requires group to come together and share ideas and knowledge on certain area for improvement (Biggs,1997,188).The best of IPl why it matters. I have learned who is a service use. A service user is anyone who is a patient or who uses health services and social services. A service user is the main key part within inter-professional. For professionals to work in partnership and collaboration they must focus on servicer users and have an aim of providing them with the best care quality. In terms of working together in collaboration, professionals must focus on the service user to build better services for service users and professionals. Good services give more benefit more in getting the right services and the right treatments. This improve the quality of life, respect integrity and it focus more on the need of the service user. Furthermore it enhances the integrity and increase professional satisfaction.
The other outcome I gained is how communication is the key of working in multi-displinary team.

By working together there is information sharing, improve safety and quality also collaboration gives knowledge to other professionals. (Littlechild and Smith, 2013).what I have learned through working in partnership with other professionals was creating a poster related to what each professional does. Some of the professionals I did not know how exactly they work together in partnership. Example: I was not aware of how a radiology would work with a social work and the outcome of that was that Radiology develop and maintain collaborative relationship with medical colleagues and participates in regular meetings with other professionals activities to meet the needs of a service users therefore they collaborate with Social Workers. By doing a poster and delivering information I learned a lot from the other team members, shared experiences knowledge and skills with other group members. Group work made me realise how it is very important to work in multi-displinary team, the benefit of it and what others can benefit from. During the poster each of the student was from different professional however we all had the question but each had to look at it in each profession perspectives. This gave an opportunity to everyone to go and search for each professional and communicate with the rest of the group the outcome of the presentation. By doing that, we exchanged ideas learned from each other’s skills and used it into practice. I have learned about sharing information with others, learned about communication and

feedbacks.

Communication is the key to a success achievement in terms of collaboration the key point in working in partnership (Morris, 2008). The main form of communication used was based on WhatsApp group which was created by a member of team who volunteered herself. This has showed the important of team working and helped each member from the group to exchange ideals while working on our topic away from the University. This form of communication helped me as it was an instant message, group members were exchanging and whoever was free at that moment was responding back. The other form of communication used was meeting together in the LRC to share the outcome from our group working. This resulted in team working as information sharing as well as exchanging the ideas. The best of meeting up face to face was much easier for me as it was hands on involvement from all people from different professionals working together in collaboration to meet the need of the presentation topic. By meeting up face to face it gave me time to offer contribution verbally to team meetings. Also it gave me experience of being active listener, therefore I had opportunity to get involved in asking question to other professionals and I learned from them too. This sort of communication gave a chance to be self-aware, it also helped me to learn mutual understanding of different team roles from early stage of my learning. By communicating we worked together.