Patients’ Experiences of Interprofessional Care: A Narrative Inquiry

Abstract

Interprofessional care (IPC) has been discussed in the literature as having the ability to lower health care expenditures, decrease wait times, enhance patient health outcomes and increase healthcare provider satisfaction with care-delivery. To date, limited research has been conducted to develop an in depth understanding of patients’ experiences receiving IPC. Using Connelly and Clandinin’s Narrative Inquiry qualitative research approach, three participants were interviewed and asked to engage in a metaphor selection drawing exercise. Participants were invited to describe how they experienced IPC and whether or not they believe person-centered care was delivered to them. Collected stories were analyzed as per Narrative Inquiry approach of three dimensional space: temporality, sociality and place. The National Canadian Interprofessional Competency Framework provided the theoretical lens through which the stories were examined. Along with giving voice to patients, three narrative threads emerged within this study: communication, patient within interprofessional team and interprofessional team members.

Women's experiences of their first pelvic exam: an arts-informed narrative inquiry

“…Narrative re-presentations appear in a wide variety of formats and styles, unique to each individual inquiry. Some inquirers choose to re-present narratives using linguistic form, such as poetry (Aksenchuk, S., 2020;Manankil-Rankin, 2015;Thavakugathasalingam, 2016) or letters to relevant social groups (Aksenchuk, K., 2013;Gough, 2019;Kwok, 2017;Sharma, 2015;Thavakugathasalingam, 2016). Inquirers may also create more abstract and metaphorical representations, with original art such as paintings (Gaudite, 2015) and drawings (Walji, 2014), collage or digital narratives (Schwind, 2012).…”

“…NRP includes storytelling, metaphor, drawing, creative writing, and reflective dialogue (Schwind, 2008, Schwind & Manankil-Rankin, 2020. The application of NRP in the work of some of Schwind's graduate students demonstrates the potential of Arts-Informed Narrative Inquiry to examine complex and emotionally difficult experiences (Aksenchuk, K., 2013;Aksenchuk, S., 2020;Gaudite, 2015;Kwok, 2017;Sharma, 2015;Thavakugathasalingam 2016;Walji, 2014).…”