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References

Research Questions

1.  What experience do clinicians in the

perioperative team have with interprofessional empathy?

2.  What factors do they perceive as barriers or facilitators of interprofessional empathy?

Background

Setting

One rural hospital in a mid-prairie province, Canada

Perioperative departments (Day Surgery, Operating Room, Recovery)

Results & Discussion Findings to be compared and contrasted to

K. Adamson’s six themes critical to developing high quality empathic relationships on

interprofessional teams.1

Significance

This study will allow further understanding of interprofessional team empathy within the

perioperative team and how it affects teamwork and collaboration and therefore quality of care

and patient safety.

Objective To describe the perioperative clinicians’ lived

experience of interprofessional empathy: health care provider’s ability to listen, hear, and understand one another during care

provision.1

Methods

Interprofessional Team Empathy Among Perioperative Team Clinicians: A Proposed

Phenomenological Research Study Nicole Shead, RN, BN & Dr. Michelle Lobchuk, RN, PhD

College of Nursing, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Canada

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Sample (n=8)

•  Standardized recruitment e-mails sent to appropriate professional leaders, who then would send out recruitment e-mails to respective clinicians.

•  Purposive Sampling to recruit all members of the accessible team member population

•  Inclusion Criteria: Employees of a Day Surgery,

Operating Room, and/or Recovery Room department who have been a participating member of the perioperative team for a minimum of a six month period.

•  Exclusion Criteria: Residents/Students;

Administrators/Managers, Support Staff

1:1 Audio recorded semi-structured interviews1

Data analysis (Moustakas) (Lists of Significant Statements; Themes; Textural, Structural, & Composite

Descriptions of Phenomenon1

More interviews

Data saturation

Bracketing, inter-coder agreement, peer review/debriefing, respondent validation,

and an external auditor will be used to demonstrate trustworthiness in providing rigor

and strength of the study in all stages.

•  Interprofessional collaboration is emerging as a key factor in reshaping healthcare practices in Canada.1

•  Interprofessional relationships continue to be characterized by conflict and inconsistencies between the way that a particular profession views itself and how it is viewed by other occupations.2

•  Social psychologists have given

considerable attention to the possibility that empathy could be used to improve attitudes and relations among groups.4

•  Teamwork empathy may be an effective

way of improving quality of care and patient safety, as well as diminishing staff shortages, stress, and burnout among healthcare workers.3

•  Without an understanding of the lived

experience of how healthcare providers experience empathy between each other, it is not possible to understand how empathy is or can be incorporated into interprofessional collaborative teamwork.1

1Adamson, K. (2011). Interprofessional empathy in an acute healthcare setting. Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive). 1119. https://scholars.wlu.ca/etd/1119/ 2Irvine, R., Kerridge, I., McPhee, J. & Freeman, S. (2002). Interprofessionalism and ethics: Consensus or clash of cultures. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 16, 200-210. 3Hayward, R., Forbes, D., Lau, F., & Wilson, D. (2000). Strengthening multidisciplinary health care teams: Final evaluation report. Edmonton, Alberta: Health and Wellness. 4Batson, C. & Ahmad, N. (2009). Using empathy to improve intergroup attitudes and relations. Social Issues and Policy Review, 5(1), 141-177.

Design

•  A descriptive phenomenological approach will be used to describe the concept of

interprofessional team empathy. •  Moustakas’ process for phenomenological data

analysis will be used to analyze the data.

MacEntee, S. (2014). Empathy [Illustration]. Retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/smemon/11984559914/

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the College of Nursing Endowment Fund for their support