Integrated Community Service’s Guideline Influences Communication Skill And Team Work On Solving Health Problem

2018-03

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Background. Globalization is phenomena which occurred in the end of 20th century and cause community transformation into global society. In order to face globalization, it is necessary to make inter professional education model and inter professional collaboration as a media for students to gain experiences. Guideline of inter professional collaboration in Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta was arranged to support inter professional education through community service program. Purpose. This research aims to analyze impact of integrated community service towards communication skill and team work on solving health problem. Method. This is an action research using pretest and posttest with control design. Population is students on 4th and 6th semester all department in Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta in 2017. Sample was chosen using simple random sampling and students in Banyuraden Village was chosen as treatment group and Nogotirto Village was chosen as control group from 4 other villages. There are 17 hamlets with 136 students each village. Result. There is significant difference on communication skill and team work after briefing between treatment and control group. Briefing of community service using guideline influences the enhancement of communication skill and team work. Communication skill and team work is essential for health practitioners. Briefing for community service is a process deliberately to give materials about purpose, steps to do community service, and knowledge about the importance of communication for inter professional collaboration. Briefing using guideline can increase student’s skill on communication and team work. Conclusion. Integrated community service’s briefing using guideline has significant impact towards communication and teamwork. Guideline helps to increase student’s skill on communication and team work of inter professional health practitioners. Keywords: communication, team work, inter professional.