Assessing Collaborative Relationship-Focused Practice: A Means to Carry This Out with Dr. Carole Orchard

Session Description:
Since the release of CIHC’s Interprofessional Competency Framework there have been many questions about what does this look like in practice? Until recently tools to assess this form of practice have been absent. Over the past several years, a group of international ‘experts’ across six countries have worked together to address this gap. There are now audit tools developed and reviewed across a few IP International Conference Workshops to ensure they are useful. In this presentation you will be introduced to this work and how the four formative assessment tools can be used in practice settings. Furthermore, you will be invited to be testers of these tools to evaluate their value and usefulness to the field.

Speaker Biography:
Dr. Orchard is currently Professor Emerita and Adjunct Research Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing and the former Coordinator of Interprofessional Health Education & Research at the University of Western Ontario. Her research focuses on interprofessional client-centred collaborative practice. Dr. Orchard and her colleagues have developed several measurement instruments: Interprofessional Socialization & Valuing Scale (ISVS) and the Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale-II (AITCS-II for practitioners), AITCS-II for students, Interprofessional Collaborative Leadership Scale (AICLS), and Patients with Diabetes Ownership of their Self-Care Scale (PD-SCOS). Dr. Orchard co-chaired the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative’s IP Competency Working Group who developed the CIHC National IP Competency Framework (2010) and assisted in the 2024 revision to the framework. She has also chaired an international working group on audit tools to measure the process of collaboration in teams. Now moving to testing of the tools. Dr. Orchard has also created an online program TEAMc (Toolkit for Enhancing and Maintaining Collaboration) to assist in the development of Interprofessional Collaborative Teams. This program is licensable for agency use through WorldDiscoveries at Western University. In 2015 she published a book with colleagues on Interprofessional Client-Centered Collaborative Practice: What does it look like? How can it be achieved? Dr. Orchard has also published articles on the role of nurses within collaborative teams. Her research currently focuses on the role of patients both in their own self-care and in collaborative teams. Currently she and colleagues are developing a Training Program in Interprofessional Team Conflict Resolution. And is co-editor with Dr. Hirronobu Matsushita of Innovative Collaboration in Healthcare published by Springer in 2024.Her work is frequently cited in the field of IPC.