Nexus Innovations Network

The Nexus is coming to life at sites across the country, where Network members are turning ideas into action and creating a practical snapshot of how interprofessional practice and education can be used effectively in different clinical and learning environments.

Nexus Innovations Network Map

The Nexus Innovation Network is a growing national community of practice-education partners coordinated through the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education. These partners transform ideas into action, creating a set of diverse portraits of how interprofessional practice and education can be used effectively in different clinical and learning environments.

Research at Nexus Innovation Network sites covers a wide array of topics, focusing on clinical practice, community engagement, on-site training and classroom interprofessional learning. Read more about the Network of different projects occurring throughout the United States.

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South Dakota Nexus: Promoting Quality Conversations about Advance Care Planning in South Dakota through Interprofessional Teams

In order to meet South Dakota’s need for a unified approach towards Advance Care Planning (ACP), the University of South Dakota’s (USD) Department of Nursing assembled an interprofessional, collaborative network of health professionals to pilot an ACP process. The ultimate goal is to implement a process statewide. The project starts by training learners in USD’s School of Health Science as “First...

University of Rochester: Preparing Family Nurse Practitioners and Physicians for Interprofessional Collaborative Care with IPEC Core Competencies

This project focuses on developing IPE competencies among nurse practitioners in a one-year residency program and family medicine residents in a three-year residency program. The intervention places the NP residents in weekly interprofessional education sessions with family medicine residents and on interprofessional collaborative care teams at Highland Family Medicine. The NP residents will have...

University of New England: Implementing a Clinical Interprofessional Curriculum Based on Patient Centered Medical Home Standards and Integrating IPEC Competencies in a Primary Care Setting

In order to implement IPE in the clinical practice setting, this intervention incorporates UNE’s Clinical Interprofessional Curriculum (CIPC), which can be found at: http://www.une.edu/clinical-interprofessional-curriculum. CIPC is based on the NCQA patient-centered medical home (PCMH) recognition standards, such as those involving a comprehensive visit and assessment with a complex patient, as...

Saint Louis University: Undergraduate Community Practicum

The Undergraduate Community Practicum engages interprofessional teams of undergraduate health professions students with agency partners in the community to support or implement projects that advance the agency's goals.

Saint Louis University: Clinical Practicum

The Clinical Practicum engages interprofessional teams of undergraduate health professions students with interprofessional teams in a clinical setting. Multiple settings within hospitals, health care organizations, and community settings are utilized to enable students to gain experience assessing how different interprofessional teams function, and the environmental and personal attributes that...

Saint Louis University: Graduate Interprofessional Team Seminars

The Graduate Interprofessional Team Seminars are a required and embedded component for seven health professions programs. The focus of the seminars is interprofessional teamwork to improve patient safety and quality care and is a product of individual professional skills, teamwork skills, and effective systems/processes of care for post-baccalaureate health professions students.

Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science: A Metacognitive, Social Determinant Model

The aim of the Rosalind Franklin University Medicine and Science project is to develop a model of hybrid simulation (low & high) education content utilizing social discriminates of health derived from the community served.

Grand Valley State University: Emerging Role on the Interprofessional Team: Medical Scribes in the Emergency Department

Member Since: April 2014 Intervention: Emerging Role on the Interprofessional Team: Medical Scribes in the Emergency Department Partners: Grand Valley State University (GVSU) Emergency Care Specialists, P.C. (ECS)

Thomas Jefferson University: Quality Improvement and Leadership Development for Residents Learning IP Teams

Member Since: June 2016 Intervention: Quality Improvement and Leadership Development for Residents Leading IP Teams Partners: Thomas Jefferson University and Jefferson Health Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University Jefferson Family Medicine Associates (JFMA) Jefferson Internal Medicine Associates (JIMA)

Creighton University: The Interprofessional Education Passport

The intent of the project is to train health professions students to be collaboration ready, allowing them to enter the workforce prepared to provide care via interprofessional teams. The curriculum facilitates students’ thinking about how individual providers and the health care system can improve care for vulnerable populations.