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Interprofessional Education is characterized by a set of collaborative actions, developed by different professionals, from the exchange of knowledge and professional development in the educational sphere. The aim of this study was to explore the initiatives and possibilities of interprofessional education in health courses. This is a descriptive and exploratory research, with a qualitative approach, in which the data were absorbed from the Pedagogical Projects of the Courses (PPCs) of undergraduate health of a Federal University and the experiences of 14 academics, 4 coordinators and 6 professors. In the data collection, we used semi-structured interviews and documental analysis of the PPCs of the courses, analyzed through content analysis. Thematic units were identified as: “Curricular initiatives of interprofessional education in health courses”, “Initiatives of interprofessional education in health courses according to the academic community” and “Possibilities of interprofessional education in health from the perspective of the academic community”. The results indicated the absence of IPE in the health courses investigated with few curricular initiatives that ensure a training directed to the interprofessional competencies required by the UHS.

Multiprofessional Health Residency Programs were created to further align health training with the needs of the population and, through an emphasis on teamwork, have been contributing to the consolidation of the Brazilian Unified Health System. The present study sought to understand the perceptions of a group of multiprofessional residents in Hospital Care about interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality within the scope of teamwork. This is a qualitative study that had the participation of 29 multiprofessional residents in the ‘Hospital Care’ area of concentration, all female (six psychologists, six social workers, six nurses, six physiotherapists and five nutritionists). Data were collected by means of a semi-structured interview script. The corpus was subjected to thematic content analysis. Most of the participants: (1) reported that their first contact with the notion of interdisciplinarity occurred when they were in college, which led to them assimilating it as a synonym for joint action, and (2) claimed to have no knowledge of the notion of interprofessionality, but valued the horizontalization of relations between health professionals. Additionally, important conditions concerning both interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality were not emphasized by the participants. Further studies on the subject are needed, due to its importance for public health.

Background Incorporating occupational therapists (OTs) into primary care requires adapting services to patient needs and depends on how colleagues within the multidisciplinary team perceive the OT roles and collaborate in daily practice. This study explored the feasibility, impact on the care team, and challenges of incorporating an OT into the home-based care service of a Spanish primary healthcare center. Methods A two-phase sequential exploratory mixed-methods study was conducted. First, structured interviews and a stakeholder focus group were conducted over the six months following the introduction of the OT. Thematic analysis identified factors that hindered or supported integration. Second, a cross-sectional study described patients who received OT care within 12 months of service implementation. The electronic health records provided patient profiles and OT interventions. Descriptive statistics and the Kruskal–Wallis tests were used to examine the associations between the study and patient characteristics. Results Six themes emerged: introduction of the OT role, team coordination, impact on team functioning, impact on patient and caregiver, contributions of the OT, and structural limitations and challenges. OT integration improved interdisciplinary collaboration and patient-centered care; however, initial role ambiguity and a lack of referral criteria were challenges. Over 12 months, 248 patients were visited (mean age, 88.2 years; 70.9% women), with an average of 11.1 chronic conditions. Overall, 45.6% had severe or total dependency in activities of daily living, and 43.2% reported at least one fall in the past year. OT interventions focused on risk assessment (65.6%) and home adaptation (52.5%). Patients with moderate-to-severe functional dependency received more risk assessment activities (median: 2; p  = 0.005). No significant associations were found between intervention frequency and fall history or other functional domains. Conclusions Integrating an OT into a primary health care team appears feasible and valuable. Sustainable implementation may require clear patient profiles, defined professional roles, structured integration processes, robust evaluation frameworks, and service standardization-based workforce planning.

Lately, there has been a tendency in academia to call for more interdisciplinary research on sustainable mobility. However, there is a lack of empirical research on practiced interdisciplinarity. This paper seeks to address this by exploring the practices of an intended interdisciplinary doctoral research group. Specifically, it presents the study of a collaborative autoethnography using individual vignettes and qualitative data analysis. The results classify the identified interdisciplinary practices into three main categories: Interactions, productive processes, and negotiation processes, where interactions serve as a carrier for negotiation and productive processes. This also uncovers advantages and challenges associated with these interactions. Furthermore, the analysis reveals intersubjectivity as an important component of the infrastructure of interdisciplinarity involved in both processes. Finally, we call for a reevaluation of the hierarchical thinking about the different levels of interdisciplinarity, going from disciplinary to multidisciplinary to interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary research. We conclude that for interdisciplinarity to happen in practice, it requires having a combination of various disciplines, ontologies, and a common “wicked” problem to solve. We also find that developing an interdisciplinary research environment requires researchers to embark on a shared journey of reaching a higher level of intersubjectivity through continuous interactions and discussions, while also negotiating conflicts.

Future threats and ever-present uncertainty have become part of our social ecological reality. We need hope to respond to social ecological change, and our sense of hope must adapt to the changes we experience. Hope is known to contribute to resilience, be important for creating social change, and to instill a belief that better futures are possible. However, there are multiple expressions of hope that could be consolidated for navigating complex social ecological change. We propose adaptive hope as an integrative conceptualization for navigating change and connection in complex social ecological change, through both the short and long term, which can be expressed in multiple ways. We explore the features of adaptive hope using one of the author’s recent experiences of attending the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) as an illustrative example. Finally, we explore the implications and future directions for research and practice that converse with adaptive hope.

The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) Practice Committee, in collaboration with AANA Professional Practice staff, advisory panels, and subject matter experts, annually applies a standardized evidence-based process to review, evaluate, and revise clinical resource documents found in the (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist) and on the AANA website. This article highlights several revised and newly developed documents, which include topics such as diversity, equity, and inclusion, anesthesia and analgesia for obstetric patients, and safe injection guidelines.

What is the future of virtual reality (VR) in the built environment? As work becomes increasingly distributed across remote and hybrid forms of organizing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is a need to rethink how we use the set of collaborative technologies to move toward a sustainable world. We propose a new vision of VR as a discipline-agnostic platform for an interdisciplinary integration of the allied design, social, and environmental disciplines to address emerging challenges across the building sectors. We build this contribution through the following steps. First, we contextualize VR technologies within the changing digital landscape and underlying tensions in the built environment practices. Second, we characterize the difficulties that have arisen in using them to address challenges, illustrating our argument with leading examples. Third, we conceptualize VR configurations and explore underlying assumptions for their use across disciplinary scenarios. Fourth, we propose a vision of VR as a discipline-agnostic platform that can support built environment users in visualizing preferred futures. We conclude by providing directions for research and practice.

This article confronts the challenges and opportunities presented by medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) representing families impacted by the family regulation system. Based on the authors’ experience developing a collaboration between a medical-legal partnership, interdisciplinary law school clinic and nurse home visiting program focused on clients impacted by the family regulation system, the article challenges traditional conceptions of the MLP model and proposes an expanded vision for MLPs to address systemic injustice and improve outcomes for families.

Abstract The aim of this study was to analyse collaborative negotiation in group creation processes. Participants were students enrolled in the Body Expression course which is part of the Physical Activity and Sports Sciences Degree curriculum at the Pontifical University of Salamanca (Spain). Experiences were collected through a group report, and content analysis was conducted using the QSR-NVivo 11 software. The results revealed an intuitive tendency towards democratic management and a positive evaluation of contrasting opinions. A tendency towards consensus and prompt acceptance of ideas that arose from “enlightenment” was also shown. Brainstorming was identified as a facilitative tool. Group cohesion and commitment were considered highly positive aspects. Leadership did not appear to be an essential factor for the process to function properly. All these elements fostered creativity and compensated for the students’ lack of artistic and expressive experience.

Puppetry has been utilised as an effective mechanism to facilitate conversation and communicate complex topics across a variety of disciplines. To provoke discussions, our project aimed to utilise puppets as an effective and entertaining ‘bridge’ to increase the confidence of young people, enabling them to question and explore scientific endeavours, and to increase the confidence of engineers to communicate their work with young people. This proof-of-concept was anchored in the research of the Centre for Enzyme Innovation at the University of Portsmouth, UK, which focuses on developing low-carbon biotechnological solutions for recycling problem plastic waste in a circular economy. The science was effectively interpreted and discussed through co-designed puppetry workshops between engineers from the University of Portsmouth and young people from the community through engagement with community partners Artswork, The Makers Guild, the company Making Theatre Gaining Skills in Bognor Regis and secondary school students at the Admiral Lord Nelson School in Portsmouth. Through this approach, we demonstrated that 86 per cent of the young people gained a deeper understanding about what engineers do, and 79 per cent about how engineering improves our lives. The majority of engineers felt more confident and motivated in utilising arts-based techniques in their engagement practice following the project. Through this work, we demonstrated that puppetry can be used to bridge the gap between scientists/engineers and underserved communities, although this can be limited by the power dynamics that currently exist in society.