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Evaluating Undergraduate Nursing Students' Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams in the Context of an Interprofessionally-Focused Nursing Course. 2019

Mollie E Aleshire, and Alexandra Dampier, and Leslie Woltenberg

College of Nursing, University of Kentucky, 527 CON Building, Lexington, KY 40536-0232, United States. Electronic address: mollie.aleshire@uky.edu.

BACKGROUND Nursing students' attitudes related to health care teams in the context of interprofessional education (IPE) and the impact of these attitudes on IPE and future practice are not fully understood. OBJECTIVE The current study assesses baccalaureate nursing students' attitudes toward health care teams and evaluates if these attitudes have changed after completion of a nursing course focusing on health care systems from an interprofessional perspective. METHODS A convenience sample of 116 undergraduate nursing students in a required interprofessionally-focused course was invited to participate. The Attitudes Toward Health Care Teams Scale Quality of Care subscale (ATHCT-QC) and Team Understanding Scale (TUS) were employed via a pretest-posttest design. Paired samples t-tests were conducted to compare mean scores. RESULTS Ninety-five respondents (81.8%) voluntarily participated at the beginning and conclusion of the course. CONCLUSIONS There were no significant differences between pretest-posttest attitudes toward interprofessional health care teams. Nurse educators must create and evaluate innovative IPE interventions to enhance students' preparedness to be effective interprofessional health care team members.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007400	Interprofessional Relations	The reciprocal interaction of two or more professional individuals.	Etiquette, Medical,Medical Etiquette,Relations, Interprofessional
D008297	Male		Males
D010348	Patient Care Team	Care of patients by a multidisciplinary team usually organized under the leadership of a physician; each member of the team has specific responsibilities and the whole team contributes to the care of the patient.	Health Care Team,Interdisciplinary Health Team,Medical Care Team,Multidisciplinary Care Team,Multidisciplinary Health Team,Healthcare Team,Care Team, Health,Care Team, Medical,Care Team, Multidisciplinary,Care Team, Patient,Care Teams, Health,Care Teams, Patient,Health Care Teams,Health Team, Interdisciplinary,Health Team, Multidisciplinary,Healthcare Teams,Interdisciplinary Health Teams,Medical Care Teams,Multidisciplinary Care Teams,Multidisciplinary Health Teams,Patient Care Teams,Team, Health Care,Team, Healthcare,Team, Interdisciplinary Health,Team, Medical Care,Team, Multidisciplinary Care,Team, Multidisciplinary Health,Team, Patient Care,Teams, Interdisciplinary Health
D011795	Surveys and Questionnaires	Collections of data obtained from voluntary subjects. The information usually takes the form of answers to questions, or suggestions.	Community Survey,Nonrespondent,Questionnaire,Questionnaires,Respondent,Survey,Survey Method,Survey Methods,Surveys,Baseline Survey,Community Surveys,Methodology, Survey,Nonrespondents,Questionnaire Design,Randomized Response Technique,Repeated Rounds of Survey,Respondents,Survey Methodology,Baseline Surveys,Design, Questionnaire,Designs, Questionnaire,Methods, Survey,Questionnaire Designs,Questionnaires and Surveys,Randomized Response Techniques,Response Technique, Randomized,Response Techniques, Randomized,Survey, Baseline,Survey, Community,Surveys, Baseline,Surveys, Community,Techniques, Randomized Response
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D001291	Attitude of Health Personnel	Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc.	Staff Attitude,Attitude, Staff,Attitudes, Staff,Health Personnel Attitude,Health Personnel Attitudes,Staff Attitudes
D013338	Students, Nursing	Individuals enrolled in a school of nursing or a formal educational program leading to a degree in nursing.	Nurses, Pupil,Pupil Nurses,Nursing Student,Nursing Students,Student, Nursing,Nurse, Pupil,Pupil Nurse
D055815	Young Adult	A person between 19 and 24 years of age.	Adult, Young,Adults, Young,Young Adults