How Research Questions Can Make or Break Your Project!
How Research Questions Can Make or Break Your Project!
Education focused on quality improvement of clinical practice and IPL has been grabbing our attention for more than half a century, and there is a wealth of publications on that topic. However, very few changes were accepted. It is fair to say that QIE/IPL are still in the early stages. On the other hand, recent strong political-economic forces and technology-enhanced learning solutions have created an environment that can enable implementation of QIE and IPL on a scale that was never possible before. Therefore, the research questions are:
- How are QIE/IPL and technologies and policies that shape QIE/IPL perceived by four groups involved in perioperative teams: anesthesiologists, surgeons, anesthesiologist assistants and nurse anesthetists?
- How is technology-enhanced collaborative learning used and perceived in the context of QIE/IPL and perioperative teams?
- How are professional cultures and contextual factors related to collaborative learning influencing implementation of technology-enhanced QIE/IPL?
Answers to those questions will help us better utilize technology to support QIE/IPL, to the benefit of all healthcare professions involved, and their patients; it will help us understand cultural and contextual factors so we can navigate more quickly and safely to successful QIE/IPL programs.
QIE and IPL – Literature Review
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Introduction – why this research is important
Interprofessional learning (IPL) and Quality Improvement Education (QIE) are increasingly recognized as important tools to improve performance of U.S. healthcare teams and address the changes the U.S. healthcare system and the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) system are undergoing
POLITICAL-ECONOMIC DRIVERS
Strong political-economic and social factors shape CPD of healthcare professionals in the U.S. As history shows, those factors (pay-for service, siloed guilds or accreditation systems, for example) may have a stronger impact than professional and educational factors.
THEORIES
At the beginning, a significant number of papers were very pragmatic and didn’t describe a theoretical background. Many later papers grounded IPL research in a single theory – usually related to a specific school of thought and academic discipline.Finally, at this point, a growing number of papers build a sound, flexible and inclusive IPL frame of references by combining multiple theories and practices.