Indiana University: The Indiana University Student Outreach Clinic Nexus Project
Member since: November 2015
Intervention: Knowledge about Roles imparted during morning huddle; Knowledge Tool; Interprofessional Screening Team
Partners:
- Indiana University Indianapolis Student Outreach Clinic
- Indiana University Schools of Medicine, Optometry, and Public Health
- Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis Schools of Dentistry, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Nursing, Fairbanks School of Public Health, and Social Work
- Indianapolis University Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy programs
- Indiana University Health Physicians
- Near East neighborhood, Indianapolis IN
Occupations represented: Dentistry, Law, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Public Health, and Social Work
Overview: Leaders have identified a need to enhance knowledge about roles, scope of practice, and training of professions at the clinic. Leaders are concerned that lack of knowledge is reducing interprofessional collaboration and contributing to inappropriate, over-, or under-utilization of services.
The main objective of this project is to improve quality of care, increase interprofessional collaboration, and increase efficiency in utilization of resources by: 1) increasing knowledge about roles, scope of practice, and training of the professions at the clinic and 2) assembling an interprofessional team to screen patients on admission to the clinic and make recommendations for collaboration across professions.
Outcome measures studied for this project include change in self-reported ability to work with others, value in working with others, and comfort working with others; knowledge about professional roles, scope of practice, and training; number and nature of interprofessional collaboration and referral requests between services for patients pre- and post-intervention.
Intervention study question: How will the intervention of Education provided during morning huddle, a Knowledge Tool, and integration of an Interprofessional Screening Team into the clinic impact subscale scores in students’ self-reported ability to work with others, value in working with others, and comfort working with others, knowledge about professions, the number of requests for interprofessional collaborations, and the percentage of appropriate referrals between services at the IUSOC?