Table 3.

Interprofessional education quotes

Theme	Quote
Opinions of interprofessional education	I think that’d be helpful. You know, you’d be learning like the same things and everybody’d be on the same page in a way with certain stuff. I’d think it be good too because you could learn from like the physician standpoint, what they’re thinking or what they’re learning. And then they get to see from our side too like what our goals … and what we do. 03_RN I think that would be awesome because I feel like sometimes, you’ll have, (and it could be in any given day at any given time), you’ll have a respiratory therapist that is at a level one experience, maybe they just graduated, you can have a nurse that’s been here for a dozen years, pass off this experience. Then you can have a doctor that, he can understand it but he can’t explain it, or any version of all three. Or they could all be extremely experienced and extremely skilled but all have different mindsets because of the different types of education we all get. 02_RT I think it’s a great thing because every month we get a new group of doctors that round through here so we spend the month teaching them like the ways of CCU, and then last week when they finally like feel comfortable, then it’s time for a whole new group to come in. So I think it’s awesome to have … speaking together as a team, with the nurses involved as well, so we all are hearing the same things and it’s not just the nurse going to the doctor and saying, “well they told us this.” And then the doctor doesn’t really believe us, and they want to hear it first hand. So I think it would be a good thing. 01_RN
Interprofessional classroom sessions	I think it’s particularly good when we’re looking at things like this. When do you extubate? When don’t you extubate? What can we do to prevent their reintubation? Because all those people you just mentioned play major roles in that. The bedside nurse plays a major role, the respiratory therapist. So to bring them all together and say, “okay this is our problem. This is what we think the issues are. This is how we think we want to address is. These are your jobs, these are your jobs, these are all our jobs.” I think that’s very useful and to say it all together and have everybody sitting in the same room looking at each other and commenting on whatever it is they choose to comment on … 01_MD What would make it work is that everybody feels that they’re benefiting from it. Not just one profession is getting the benefit and the other is just “okay, we knew all that. There’s nothing interesting in this.” So you have to have something for everybody to keep them all engaged… 01_MD It’s hard to get everybody through mostly because you have different times and different days. And with a large number of say, nurses compared to respiratory therapists, there’s going to be five to six nurses for every one respiratory therapist. And there can be trouble getting everybody through the education and hearing the same things, and understanding. 02_RT
Interprofessional just-in-time sessions	It sticks that way, right? I mean, you’ve got a case you have a patient and you’re doing it for real, not on a dummy and not watching someone do it on TV. So I find if you have a patient case, that you actually do it, and you’re hands-on and you’re invested in it, it will stick better. So I think that’s a great idea. 04_MD Well it sounds like it’s not going to be a real long lengthy one. That I guess, could be done in rounds because that wouldn’t be a real lengthy thing… 03_RT I would say yeah. I could think of the drawbacks would be, one I’m just not, I just don’t want to hear it right now because I have other stuff to do. And two, I feel like the person giving the information can reach more eyes and ears if they’re doing just in time and telling me about a face mask adjustment I could sit ten people down and tell them all at one time versus telling them ten different times. You know what I mean? 02_RN

Definition of abbreviations: CCU = cardiac care unit; MD = physician; RN = nurse; RT = respiratory therapist.