Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal – Negotiating Overlaps

Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal – Negotiating Overlaps
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Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal – Negotiating Overlaps
Work settings in the healthcare niche have become significantly more interactive and cooperative in contemporary times. Professionals are gradually embracing the concept of interprofessional collaboration (IPC) to participate collectively in delivering care and improving their patients’ overall outcomes. Moncatar et al. (2021) recognize this shift as transformative, which has made the healthcare environment supportive and progressive due to concerted efforts. Amid these changes, Schot et al. (2020) alert the stakeholders to remain alert of the diverse barriers that threaten to lag this process. In this context, the authors introduce the concept of negotiating overlaps of streamlining interprofessional interactions and promoting progress.
Negotiating overlaps eliminates friction and barriers that might derail the execution of services in diversified teams. Schot et al. (2020) indicate that collaborative demands create overlaps that increase the probability of conflicts between different experts. Some of these comprise the responsibilities of team players and work roles. Samuriwo (2022) agrees that ambiguity can arise due to a lack of clarity about who completes specific duties and the scope of operations in a group. Such conflicts related to the boundaries of experts can be counterproductive to the primary objective of working through IPC. As a result, ...