Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Team
Central to palliative care practice - whether in the hospital, outpatient, or hospice setting - is the interdisciplinary team. In this module, we review key concepts of the model and how interdisciplinary teamwork differs from multidisciplinary work.
Typically, the members of a palliative care team will include:
Typically, the members of a palliative care team will include:
- Physician
- Nurse
- Pharmacist
- Social worker
- Chaplain
Articles and video
- GITT - the Geriatric model - www.gittprogram.org/learning.html (web page)
- What is an interdisciplinary team? How does it differ from a multidisciplinary model? and other questions answered: www.gittprogram.org/files/Topic_1.pdf (article)
- Interdisciplinary Interventions To Improve Pediatric Palliative Care and Reduce Health Care Professional Suffering Cynda Hylton Rushton, Elizabeth Reder, Barbara Hall, Katherine Comello, Deborah E. Sellers, Nancy Hutton. Journal of Palliative Medicine. August 2006, 9(4): 922-933. doi:10.1089/jpm.2006.9.922.
- A 5-minute video interview with an Interdisciplinary clinical case competition at Vanderbilt University, what they learned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXfHvmTbT0o (video)
- Learning from Jazz: How to work effectively in an interdisciplinary and every-changing team. JazzCode (video)