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Interprofessional Collaboration and Co-publishing e have become accustomed to hearing and thinking about the concept of interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in relation to the improvement of the quality, continuity, and safety of patient care. According to Haddara and Lingard (2013), IPC is “the idea that health care is best conceptualized and practiced as a team activity” (page 1509). However, defining the key characteristics of IPC, teaching IPC behaviors to students in nursing and medicine, and implementing IPC in health care settings is often a difficult process that is fraught with tension and ambiguous outcomes. For some, IPC is a utilitarian principle based on the idea that teamwork in health care is a useful tool for improving health care outcomes. For others IPC is an emancipatory concept that developed historically to correct the domination of nursing by medicine (Hadara & Lingard, 2013). Although both of these ideas are interesting to consider and debate, my ideas about IPC are more pragmatic, particularly in relationship to getting critical information into the hands of the primary professionals who provide health care for women, infants, and their families during the childbearing cycle: midwives, nurses, and physicians (the order is alphabetical, not hierarchical).
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Nancy K. Lowe Editor
In recent years, a new interprofessional collaboration has formed, the Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care (2014a). The 16 professional organization members of the Council are listed in Table 1. One of the major activities of the Council is the National Partnership for Maternal Safety of which the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) are key members. Representatives of these organizations and others are working actively on the Partnership Initiative as a multi-stakeholder consensus effort. According to their website, “The primary work products of this initiative are Patient Safety Bundles – small, straightforward sets of evidencebased practices that, when performed collectively and reliably, have been proven to improve patient outcomes” (2014b).
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As this work has progressed, the Partnership has produced manuscripts intended for publication in multi-disciplinary, professional, peer-reviewed journals. The first two of these papers were copublished in JOGNN and Obstetrics & Gynecology in 2014 (Kilpatrick et al., 2014; Mhyre et al., 2014). Other manuscripts are planned to be forthcoming and will also include publication in the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. Some may ask why journal pages are being taken for papers that are appearing elsewhere in the readily available peer-reviewed literature? The reason is simple: the editors of these journals, Dr. Nancy Chescheir, Dr. Frances Likis, and I believe it is the right thing to do for the greater good, particularly for the health and welfare of women who are the recipients of our care. We agree that the publication of these important, interdisciplinarily authored manuscripts should be a collaborative effort to assure that information about improving maternal safety during childbirth is circulated as widely as possible among key professionals. The peer-review of these manuscripts is collaborative, and the identical manuscript is published simultaneously. The first co-published article “Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring: Research guidelines for interpretation,” appeared in 1997 in JOGNN and American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (“Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring,” 1997). In 2008, a second article, also about the interpretation of electronic fetal monitoring, was co-published in JOGNN and Obstetrics & Gynecology (Macones, Hankins, Spong, Hauth, & Moore, 2008). In 2014, JOGNN also co-published an editorial about the CROWN Initiative with more than 60 other scientific journals (Kahn, 2014). Whether you resonate with a utilitarian or an emancipatory view of IPC, health care is a team endeavor that requires all members of the team to be on the same page about the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth. Interprofessional collaborative efforts are increasing at the national level as reflected in the work of the Partnership for Maternal Safety. Therefore, it is likely that copublishing opportunities will continue to be on
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Table 1: Organizational members of the Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care
REFERENCES Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care. (2014a). Home page. Retrieved from http://www.safehealthcareforeverywoman.org/ Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care. (2014b). National Partnership for Maternal Safety – A primer. Retrieved from
• American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology • American College of Nurse-Midwives • American Academy of Family Physicians • American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists • American Society of Anesthesiologists • American Society for Reproductive Health • American Urogynecologic Society • Association of Nurse Anesthetists • Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses • Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health • Pulse of New York • Society of Gynecologic Oncology • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine • Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology • Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
http://www.safehealthcareforeverywoman.org/maternal-safetyoverview.html Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring: Research guidelines for interpretation. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Research Planning Workshop. (1997). Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 26(6), 635–640. doi:10.1111/j.1552-6909.1997.tb02737.x Haddara, W., & Lingard, L. (2013). Are we all on the same page?
A
laboration.
discourse Academic
analysis
of
Medicine,
interprofessional 88(10),
col-
1509–1515.
doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182a31893 Kahn, K. (2014). The CROWN Initiative: Journal editors invite researchers to develop core outcomes in women’s health. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 43(5), 543–544. doi:10.1111/1552-6909.12500 Kilpatrick, S. J., Berg, C., Bernstein, P., Bingham, D., Delgado, A., Callaghan, W. M. . . . Harper, M. (2014). Standardized severe maternal morbidity review: Rationale and Process. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 43(4), 403–408. doi:10.1111/1552-6909.12478 Macones, G. A., Hankins, G. D. V., Spong, C. Y., Hauth, J., & Moore, T. (2008). The 2008 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Workshop Report on Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Update on definitions, interpretation, and research guidelines. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 37(5), 510–515. doi:10.1111/j.1552-6909.2008.00284.x Mhyre, J. M., D’Oria, R., Hameed, A. B., Lappen, J. R., Holley S. L., Hunter, S. K., . . . D’Alton, M. E. (2014). The maternal early warning criteria: A proposal from the National Partnership for Maternal
the horizon with co-published papers appearing periodically in JOGNN.
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JOGNN, 44, 1-2; 2015. DOI: 10.1111/1552-6909.12540
Safety. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 43(6), e-pub ahead of print. doi:10.1111/1552-6909.12504
http://jognn.awhonn.org
EDITORIAL
Interprofessional Collaboration and Co-publishing e have become accustomed to hearing and thinking about the concept of interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in relation to the improvement of the quality, continuity, and safety of patient care. According to Haddara and Lingard (2013), IPC is “the idea that health care is best conceptualized and practiced as a team activity” (page 1509). However, defining the key characteristics of IPC, teaching IPC behaviors to students in nursing and medicine, and implementing IPC in health care settings is often a difficult process that is fraught with tension and ambiguous outcomes. For some, IPC is a utilitarian principle based on the idea that teamwork in health care is a useful tool for improving health care outcomes. For others IPC is an emancipatory concept that developed historically to correct the domination of nursing by medicine (Hadara & Lingard, 2013). Although both of these ideas are interesting to consider and debate, my ideas about IPC are more pragmatic, particularly in relationship to getting critical information into the hands of the primary professionals who provide health care for women, infants, and their families during the childbearing cycle: midwives, nurses, and physicians (the order is alphabetical, not hierarchical).
W
Nancy K. Lowe Editor
In recent years, a new interprofessional collaboration has formed, the Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care (2014a). The 16 professional organization members of the Council are listed in Table 1. One of the major activities of the Council is the National Partnership for Maternal Safety of which the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM), the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) are key members. Representatives of these organizations and others are working actively on the Partnership Initiative as a multi-stakeholder consensus effort. According to their website, “The primary work products of this initiative are Patient Safety Bundles – small, straightforward sets of evidencebased practices that, when performed collectively and reliably, have been proven to improve patient outcomes” (2014b).
http://jognn.awhonn.org
As this work has progressed, the Partnership has produced manuscripts intended for publication in multi-disciplinary, professional, peer-reviewed journals. The first two of these papers were copublished in JOGNN and Obstetrics & Gynecology in 2014 (Kilpatrick et al., 2014; Mhyre et al., 2014). Other manuscripts are planned to be forthcoming and will also include publication in the Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health. Some may ask why journal pages are being taken for papers that are appearing elsewhere in the readily available peer-reviewed literature? The reason is simple: the editors of these journals, Dr. Nancy Chescheir, Dr. Frances Likis, and I believe it is the right thing to do for the greater good, particularly for the health and welfare of women who are the recipients of our care. We agree that the publication of these important, interdisciplinarily authored manuscripts should be a collaborative effort to assure that information about improving maternal safety during childbirth is circulated as widely as possible among key professionals. The peer-review of these manuscripts is collaborative, and the identical manuscript is published simultaneously. The first co-published article “Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring: Research guidelines for interpretation,” appeared in 1997 in JOGNN and American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology (“Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring,” 1997). In 2008, a second article, also about the interpretation of electronic fetal monitoring, was co-published in JOGNN and Obstetrics & Gynecology (Macones, Hankins, Spong, Hauth, & Moore, 2008). In 2014, JOGNN also co-published an editorial about the CROWN Initiative with more than 60 other scientific journals (Kahn, 2014). Whether you resonate with a utilitarian or an emancipatory view of IPC, health care is a team endeavor that requires all members of the team to be on the same page about the care of women during pregnancy and childbirth. Interprofessional collaborative efforts are increasing at the national level as reflected in the work of the Partnership for Maternal Safety. Therefore, it is likely that copublishing opportunities will continue to be on
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Editorial
Table 1: Organizational members of the Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care
REFERENCES Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care. (2014a). Home page. Retrieved from http://www.safehealthcareforeverywoman.org/ Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Health Care. (2014b). National Partnership for Maternal Safety – A primer. Retrieved from
• American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology • American College of Nurse-Midwives • American Academy of Family Physicians • American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists • American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists • American Society of Anesthesiologists • American Society for Reproductive Health • American Urogynecologic Society • Association of Nurse Anesthetists • Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses • Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health • Pulse of New York • Society of Gynecologic Oncology • Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine • Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology • Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
http://www.safehealthcareforeverywoman.org/maternal-safetyoverview.html Electronic fetal heart rate monitoring: Research guidelines for interpretation. The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Research Planning Workshop. (1997). Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 26(6), 635–640. doi:10.1111/j.1552-6909.1997.tb02737.x Haddara, W., & Lingard, L. (2013). Are we all on the same page?
A
laboration.
discourse Academic
analysis
of
Medicine,
interprofessional 88(10),
col-
1509–1515.
doi:10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182a31893 Kahn, K. (2014). The CROWN Initiative: Journal editors invite researchers to develop core outcomes in women’s health. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 43(5), 543–544. doi:10.1111/1552-6909.12500 Kilpatrick, S. J., Berg, C., Bernstein, P., Bingham, D., Delgado, A., Callaghan, W. M. . . . Harper, M. (2014). Standardized severe maternal morbidity review: Rationale and Process. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 43(4), 403–408. doi:10.1111/1552-6909.12478 Macones, G. A., Hankins, G. D. V., Spong, C. Y., Hauth, J., & Moore, T. (2008). The 2008 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Workshop Report on Electronic Fetal Monitoring: Update on definitions, interpretation, and research guidelines. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 37(5), 510–515. doi:10.1111/j.1552-6909.2008.00284.x Mhyre, J. M., D’Oria, R., Hameed, A. B., Lappen, J. R., Holley S. L., Hunter, S. K., . . . D’Alton, M. E. (2014). The maternal early warning criteria: A proposal from the National Partnership for Maternal
the horizon with co-published papers appearing periodically in JOGNN.
2
JOGNN, 44, 1-2; 2015. DOI: 10.1111/1552-6909.12540
Safety. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing, 43(6), e-pub ahead of print. doi:10.1111/1552-6909.12504
http://jognn.awhonn.org
