Interdisciplinary collaboration experiences in creating an everyday rehabilitation model: a pilot study
Background When functional impairment occurs, assistance to achieve self help can lead to qualitatively more active everyday life for recipients and better use of community resources. Home based everyday rehabilitation is a new interdisciplinary service for people living at home. Rehabilitation involves meeting the need for interprofessional services, interdisciplinary collaboration, and coordination of services. Everyday rehabilitation is a service that requires close interdisciplinary cooperation. The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge about employees' experiences with establishing a new multidisciplinary team and developing a team based work model. Method The study had a qualitative design using two focus group interviews with a newly established rehabilitation team. The sample consisted of an occupational therapist, two care workers with further education in rehabilitation, a nurse, a physiotherapist, and a project leader. Data were analyzed by thematic content analysis. Results The data highlight three phases: a planning phase (ten meetings over half a year) a startup phase of trials of interdisciplinary everyday rehabilitation in practice (2 months) and a third period specifying and implementing an everyday rehabilitation model (6 months) During these phases, three themes emerged: 1) team creation and design of the service, 2) targeted practical trials, and 3) equality of team members and combining interdisciplinary methods. Conclusion The team provided information about three processes: developing work routines and a revised team based flow chart, developing team cooperation with integrated Trans and interdisciplinary collaboration, and working with external exchange. There is more need for secure network solutions.
Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare