Collaboration in Health Care: The Journey of an Accidental Expert? | Joy Doll | TEDxCreightonU

Interprofessional education is a team-based approach to care drawing upon the shared knowledge of health care professionals to deliver better patient care. Creighton alumna Joy Doll is at the helm of innovative clinical care at Creighton as the executive director of the Center for Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research. Creighton is one of the first in the nation to provide interprofessional education-a team-based approach to care drawing upon the shared knowledge of health care professionals to deliver better patient care.
West Virginia-native Doll served in AmeriCorps VISTA before coming to Creighton to build interprofessional health outreach and address health needs with communities in Omaha, rural Nebraska and several countries.
In recognition of her contributions to occupational therapy and developing the interprofessional landscape, Doll received the 2018 American Occupational Therapy Association Interprofessional Collaboration Award. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@redflowers19]

So proud that you are an OT! Great talk anyways but even better to hear as a student OT, thank you!

[@milford1014]

Joy, you are an inspiration to those of us who continue to try to make change happen in healthcare or wherever our paths lead us. Terrific job. I am honored to call you friend and colleague.

[@jocelynflay8677]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience. You have a natural and brilliant way of teaching collaboration amongst humanity. Cheers Joy Doll!

[@meredithgreene4817]

Great talk! You made so many great points. My favorite...”get over yourself” So very true!

[@carolinesilva8790]

Great talk Dr. Doll! I am proud to have you as a mentor. Thank you for representing Occupational Therapy so well in healthcare.

[@joydoll8663]

Thank you so much for your kind words! Set the world on fire!!!

[@billwong6077]

well done, Joy! Thanks for sharing this! Way to represent OT.

[@joydoll8663]

thank you Bill! I appreciate your support. Go OTs!

[@user-yh8kj4ze7g]

It seems to me that many of the problems in healthcare are not due to deliberate action/inaction or by a sense of malintent. Rather I think many problems - such as complex systems, high costs, and inefficiency often stem from a lack of education/ignorance and poor communication/misunderstandings. I suppose I tend to believe that these more passive and generally amoral issues are responsible for most of the problems we face (in and outside healthcare).
That said, it doesn’t mean we should do nothing. I like this emphasis on collaboration, whether it’s cross-disciplinary or between healthcare providers and patients. Obviously nobody has the mental capabilities or the time necessary to become an expert in everything, so clearly it’s necessary to collaborate (and of course we already do in many ways). But perhaps what could be focused on is optimizing how we collaborate.
This could come from increased awareness of who could best collaborate with who, and the benefits of doing so. Perhaps this could be integrated as an interprofessional education in the various fields where it could be useful. With this awareness, I like the idea of a shared vision. When people have a common goal and idea of how things could be improved, it seems that they’re much more likely to work together toward it.
Where poor communication is often such a significant problem, perhaps there should be additional or improved training on how to best communicate with other professionals. I know many programs exist to improve interprofessional collaboration but I wonder if there is data to support any of them being more successful than others and if so, if the most effective programs are being used.
The patient side is perhaps even more important. By making patients a more active participant in their healthcare, they are more likely to be motivated to comply with healthcare provider recommendations, especially those related to lifestyle. Patient collaboration, it seems, has the potential to improve the efficacy of preventative care and shifting healthcare from reactive to proactive, thus maximizing health rather than simply trying to treat disease.

[@susancleghorn7237]

Great job Joy!!!

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I'm only watching this because I have to

[@d_shada6640]

+1

[@kennyfridrich8029]

same

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