Interprofessionalism in health care: Communication with the patient's identified family

Abstract

Communication with the patient's identified family is one of the most important and ongoing service to be provided by the inter-professional team in health care. Placing this importent service within the context of “attachment, security and trust” should help professional team members to learn how to configure patient's families into the circle of health care collaboration. The communication offered to the patient and patient's family is the most important aspect to inter-professionalism within health care. Breakdowns in this communication of trust can have drastic effects with long standing emotional impact.

Keywords:

• Attachment
• identified family
• collaboration
• health care