Inter-professional teams are part of practice trends we see developing in all aspects of care delivery. Consider
you own work environment (or recent clinical setting).
For this assignment, consider the concept of inter-professional teamwork and patient outcomes.
Look to your current workplace as an example. (If you are not currently employed, look to a past workplace or
clinical practice area.)
Apply the components of the iCARE concept to inter-professional teams in a short paper. (Body of the paper to
be 3 pages, excluding the title page and references page)
iCARE components are:
Compassion
Advocacy
Resilience
Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
How could you contribute to an inter-professional team and patient outcomes through nursing actions of:
compassion, advocacy, resilience, and evidence-based practice?
Select one scholarly nursing article from CINAHL as a resource for your paper.
Additional scholarly sources can be used but are optional.
When searching in the CINAHL database, please limit your search word to one component of the paper you
wish to emphasize, such as ‘Resilience’. Searching for the term iCARE will not produce the results you need.
Elements of iCARE paper
Title page
Below are the headings to be used for this assignment.
Introduction: (No heading needed here in APA) Explain the type of work setting you are discussing and
whether inter-professional teams are currently present. If inter-professional teams are present, indicate a team
function that could be improved. If inter-professional teams are NOT present, indicate what type of team you
think might be possible in the setting.
Describe a nursing action item for each component below that could contribute to: inter-professional team
support; how this might impact the culture of your unit or organization; and possible impact on patient
outcomes.
Compassion
Advocacy
Resilience
Evidence-Based Practice
Summary: Include a summary statement of how iCARE components can support inter-professional teams and
patient outcomes. Address how you may be able to influence this process of support for inter-professional
teams overall in your unit or organization.

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