Implementation of Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) in Patient Safety Efforts at Ibnu Sina Hospital, Makassar City

Abstract

Efforts to improve the quality of health services in dealing with patient safety issues continue to be carried out in a collaborative work system, there is a need to implement Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) in a health service system, to handle problems that will arise due to miscommunication between health workers, there needs to be strong collaboration both inter-professionally to improve the quality of health services for patient safety. The aim of the research is to determine the implementation of IPC in patient safety efforts at Ibnu Sina Hospital Makassar. This type of research is quantitative research with survey methods. The sample in this study was 79 health workers using purposive sampling technique. In this research, the research results showed that; 1) Implementation of IPC in Patient Safety Efforts in the Partnership domain in the category towards collaboration (82.2%), 2) Implementation of IPC in Patient Safety Efforts in the Cooperation domain in the category towards collaboration (75.9%), 3) Implementation of IPC in Patient Safety Efforts Coordination domain in the category towards collaboration (78.5%). Suggestions for health workers need to improve communication with patient families and fellow health service providers and hospitals to encourage better implementation of IPC by developing policies and service support related to IPC as well as maintaining and further improving service quality and all IPC domains of partnership, cooperation and coordination, so that the three of them are in good collaboration