Better Together: Interdisciplinary Care That Gets Results (Recorded Webinar)
Presented by Neely Sullivan
This course is a recording of a previously hosted live webinar event. Polling and question submission features are not available for this recording. Format and structure may differ from those of standard Medbridge courses.
Interdisciplinary collaboration is essential to safe, high-quality client care, yet many healthcare teams still struggle with role clarity and consistent communication. When disciplines work in parallel instead of as an integrated team, it can lead to duplicated work, inconsistent client and family education, documentation silos, and preventable safety risks. Time pressure, productivity demands, and lack of structured communication tools often make collaboration difficult to sustain. This webinar provides practical, evidence-informed strategies to strengthen interdisciplinary communication, clarify overlapping roles while maintaining the scope of practice, and improve collaborative documentation. Participants will learn structured frameworks and real-world techniques they can apply immediately to improve team alignment, efficiency, and client-centered outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
- Define the core roles and overlapping scopes of PT, OT, SLP, and nursing in interdisciplinary care models
- Identify three evidence-based strategies to improve interdisciplinary communication and care planning
- Highlight case examples where collaborative documentation and treatment improved clinical efficiency and client outcomes
- Outline a collaborative problem-solving framework to resolve common interprofessional conflicts in clinical practice
Meet your instructor
Neely Sullivan
Neely Tolbert Sullivan MPT, CLT-LANA, CDT, has worked with diverse client populations ranging from pediatric to geriatric in a variety of clinical settings. These experiences have allowed her to treat and develop effective client care programs. She has served in multiple levels of regional and corporate management positions.…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Why Interdisciplinary Collaboration Matters
This chapter establishes the clinical and system-level importance of interdisciplinary collaboration across healthcare settings. Participants explore current healthcare realities, including patient complexity, burnout, and outcome accountability, while examining how collaboration directly impacts client safety, efficiency, and team sustainability. Real-world breakdown scenarios highlight why collaboration failures occur and how alignment improves outcomes.
2. Overlap of Roles
This chapter clarifies discipline-specific roles while normalizing appropriate role overlap in team-based care. Participants learn how the scope of practice differs from role execution and how coordinated overlap improves safety, carryover, and client outcomes. Case examples demonstrate both coordinated and uncoordinated overlap scenarios.
3. Communication and Documentation That Work
This chapter focuses on communication and documentation as core clinical skills that directly influence client and team performance. Participants learn structured communication tools, principles of shared functional documentation, and strategies for creating unified clinical narratives across disciplines. Real-world examples illustrate how communication and documentation alignment improve outcomes and reduce duplication.
4. Team Problem-Solving in Action
This chapter translates collaboration into daily clinical practice using structured problem-solving frameworks. Participants learn how to address common collaboration barriers while applying psychological safety principles. A comprehensive case study demonstrates how structured collaboration improves discharge planning, client outcomes, and team satisfaction.
5. Question and Answer Session
This chapter is a viewer-submitted question and answer session. Questions are answered by Neely Sullivan, the instructor of this course.
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