Domain 1: Values/Ethics Competencies for IPE

VE1. Place the interests of patients and populations at the center of IP health care delivery.

VE2. Respect the dignity and privacy of patients while maintaining confidentiality in the delivery of team based care.

VE3. Embrace the cultural diversity and individual differences that characterize patients, populations, and the health care team.

VE4. Respect the unique cultures, values, roles/responsibilities, and expertise of other health professions.

VE5. Work in cooperation with those who receive care, those who provide care, and others who contribute to or support the delivery of prevention and health services.

VE6. Develop a trusting relationship with patients, families, and other team members.

VE7. Demonstrate high standards of ethical conduct and quality of care in one’s contributions to team-based care.

VE8. Manage ethical dilemmas specific to IP patient/ population centered care situations.

VE9. Act with honesty and integrity in relationships with patients, families, and other team members.

VE10. Maintain competence in one’s own profession appropriate to scope of practice.

Domain 2: Roles/Responsibilities Competencies for IPE

RR1. Communicate one’s roles and responsibilities clearly to patients, families, and other professionals.

RR2. Recognize one’s limitations in skills, knowledge, and abilities.

RR3. Engage diverse health care professionals who complement one’s own professional expertise, as well as associated resources, to develop strategies to meet specific patient care needs.

RR4. Explain the roles and responsibilities of other care providers and how the team works together to provide care.

RR5. Use the full scope of knowledge, skills, and abilities of available health professionals and health care workers to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.

RR6. Communicate with team members to clarify each member’s responsibility in executing components of a treatment plan or public health intervention.

RR7. Forge interdependent relationships with other professions to improve care and advance learning.

RR8. Engage in continuous professional and IP development to enhance team performance.

RR9. Use unique and complementary abilities of all members of the team to optimize patient care.

Domain 3: IP Communication Competencies for IPE

CC1. Choose effective communication tools and techniques, including information systems and communication technologies, to facilitate discussions and interactions that enhance team function.

CC2. Organize and communicate information with patients, families, and health care team members in a form that is understandable, avoiding discipline-specific terminology when possible.

CC3. Express one’s knowledge and opinions to team members involved in patient care with confidence, clarity, and respect, working to ensure common understanding of information and treatment and care decisions.

CC4. Listen actively, and encourage ideas and opinions of other team members.

CC5. Give timely, sensitive, instructive feedback to others about their performance on the team, responding respectfully as a team member to feedback from others.

CC6. Use respectful language appropriate for a given difficult situation, crucial conversation, or IP conflict.

CC7. Recognize how one’s own uniqueness, including experience level, expertise, culture, power, and hierarchy within the health are team, contributes to effective communication, conflict resolution, and positive IP working relationships.

CC8. Communicate consistently the importance of teamwork in patient-centered and community focused care.

Domain 4: Team and Teamwork Competencies for IP

TT1. Describe the process of team development and the roles and practices of effective teams.

TT2. Develop consensus on the ethical principles to guide all aspects of patient care and teamwork.

TT3. Engage other health professionals―appropriate to the specific care situation―in shared patient centered problem solving.

TT4. Integrate the knowledge and experience of other professions appropriate to the specific care situation―to inform care decisions, while respecting patient and community values and priorities/ preferences for care.

TT5. Apply leadership practices that support collaborative practice and team effectiveness.

TT6. Engage self and others to constructively manage disagreements about values, roles, goals, and actions that arise among health care professionals and with patients and families.

TT7. Share accountability with other professions, patients, and communities for outcomes relevant to prevention and health care.

TT8. Reflect on individual and team performance for individual, as well as team, performance improvement.

TT9. Use process improvement strategies to increase the effectiveness of IP teamwork and team-based care.

TT10. Use available evidence to inform others on effective teamwork and team-based practices.

TT11. Perform effectively on teams and in different team roles in a variety of settings.