Lecture/seminar, three hours. Requisite: doctoral standing. Designed to acquaint DNP students with contemporary issues in health care professions and expose students to interprofessional collaborative practice concepts and competencies. Debate of barriers and facilitators to achieving model collaborative practice. Exploration of innovative opportunities to change current practice. Exploration of students' personal belief systems about high-level collaboration and team performance. Addresses relationship between interprofessional education, practice, and health care outcomes and processes to prepare DNP graduate to assume leadership roles. Letter grading.