Recognizes the need for interprofessional working, and an enquiring attitude. Sees the importance of interprofessional working and enquiry.
It is important to work as an interprofessional team in Step 0 of the EBP process.
The spirit of inquiry is linked with inter-professional working, in that there is a need for members of the health professions to collaborate in order to find problems, to criticize practice, and to seek out the most appropriate evidence to improve the care for their patients. Nurses and other health professionals appreciate the spirit of inquiry – by simply doing what they have been doing all along. Collaborating helps professionals share information, insights and skills to reach better decisions and deliver better patient care (El-Awaisi et al., 2024). The problems in healthcare are getting more complicated, and in order to solve them successfully, an interprofessional collaboration is needed, which is a crucial step in the evidence-based practice (EBP) process in the constantly evolving healthcare context. Collaboration fosters communication, respect for individuals, and mutual accountability among healthcare workers. A spirit of inquiry gives clinical staff an awareness of what they do not know and enables them to look for solutions in the evidence base (Wyant, 2018). Collaborative team functioning is more effective in assessment of evidence, identification of improvements and implementation of changes to improve patient safety and healthcare outcomes (Dellafiore et al., 2025).
This is a sample of the project. It is a sample of my project.
In my own project, I have experienced the need to collaborate interprofessional to help create an inquisitive culture when trying to improve surgical specimen collection errors. All of the above will be involved in this project to determine what is causing the labelling and handling of specimens to become wrong. Working together they will be able to review and analyze current processes, look at evidence-based interventions, and develop consistent protocols for collecting specimens to reduce error opportunities. During the spirit of inquiry, teams continually question how current practice can be improved to help patients be safe and achieve better surgical results.
Reference
El-Awaisi, A., Yakti, O. H., Elboshra, A. M., Jasim, K. H., AboAlward, A. F., Shalfawi, R. W., Awaisu, A., Rainkie, D., Al Mutawa, N., & Major, S. (2024). Facilitators and barriers to interprofessional collaboration among health professionals in primary healthcare centers in Qatar: a qualitative exploration using the “Gears” model. BMC Primary Care, 25(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-024-02537-8
Dellafiore, F., Guardamagna, L., Haoufadi, S., Cicognani, A., De Mola, A., Mazzone, B., Occhini, G., Brusini, A., & Artioli, G. (2025). Interprofessional Collaboration in Primary Healthcare: A Qualitative Study of General Practitioners’ and Family and Community Nurses’ Perspectives in Italy. Healthcare, 13(21), 2794. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13212794
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I will post CAT (classroom assessment technique) questions each week. Responding to this question is not required but will count as participation in the discussion forum. “As step 0 of the EBP process, a spirit of inquiry refers to an ongoing curiosity about the best evidence to guide clinical decision-making” (Wyant, 2018, para. 2). Now that you have discussed your roles and compared roles. How does interprofessional collaboration come into play with the spirit of inquiry? With the ever-changing healthcare landscape, why is interprofessional collaboration essential in step 0 of the EBP process? Do you have an example from your own project?
Reference
Wyant, T. (2018, January 18). A spirit of inquiry leads to evidence-based answers to practice questions. ONSVoice. https://voice.ons.org/news-and-views/a-spirit-of-inquiry-leads-to-evidence-based-answers-to-practice-questions discussion 2
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