Sammanfattning
In the spring of 2005 we carried out an interprofessional communication and collaboration project at Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, for nurses in their 6th term of training and 9th term medical students. The education al framework was the ward rounds. Teaching was planned as a one-day course. The purpose of the course was to give the students knowledge and insight into each other's professions through presentations, joint discussions and specific exercises in collaboration. This would enable them to enter into future interprofessional collaboration with a greater awareness of their own and others' roles as professionals.
The project was evaluated by means of questionnaires and
focus group interviews.
The students' evaluation of the course was generally positive. The course covered a major need for better knowledge of each other's professions as a basis for interprofessional collaboration. According to the students, the joint teaching had provided them with knowledge of each other's professional responsibilities and roles when it comes to preparing and structuring discussions relating to ward rounds.