Chapter 16: Collaboration in Nursing Practice - Nurselytic

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: Interprofessional collaboration has been shown to improve recruitment and retention of health workers, patient care, patient satisfaction, safety, and access to health care. Improved recruitment and retention of health workers, more effective employment of health human resources, and improved population health are important system outcomes.

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: It is within the interface of educator and student that the values and beliefs of one's profession emerge, and without reflecting upon, examining, and challenging these profession-specific socialized beliefs, the development of interprofessional relationships may be blocked.

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Micro-level factors refer to connections between students, educators, and health care providers that influence interprofessional education and collaborative practice. Micro-level factors in education relate to teaching, such as interprofessional facilitator development.

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Maintaining a psychologically safe environment, where learners believe that they are secure to express ideas and opinions openly and engage in interpersonal risk-taking in the workplace, can result in improved attitudes of students who learn interprofessionally.

Correct Answer: B

Rationale: IPC is accomplished through interactionsâ??interactions between patients/families and health workers, interactions between health workers of various backgrounds, and interactions with the organization in which they all reside.