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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Kansas University Medical Center: Faculty Preceptors for IPE

In an effort to enhance primary care delivery, this intervention develops an interprofessional practice and education (IPE) curriculum for preceptors who are jointly affiliated with both health care education and clinical practice.

Grand Valley State University: IPE to Improve Diabetes Health Outcomes

A student team of medical, physician assistant and pharmacy students are working with health care providers at Cherry Street Health Center, a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), to provide collaborative care during clinical appointments and through daily huddles, case conferences, patient call backs and patient education classes about diabetes.

Arizona Nexus: Student Health Outreach for Wellness

This project provides health professions students an opportunity to develop interprofessional competencies in a “real world” clinical practice setting.

Arizona Nexus: Improving Health Outcomes in Independent Senior Housing

The Interprofessional Center for Health and Social Services at the Westward Ho is a student-run, faculty-supervised training unit that provides onsite supportive services to 300 residents of a low-income senior housing community in downtown Phoenix.

South Dakota Nexus: Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention

This project focuses on changes among graduate students regarding attitudes and skills that impact their capabilities for addressing population health. Surveys and other assessment tools will be used to measure changes over time. Using a transdisciplinary team of experts in childhood obesity, students will be introduced to the interrelationship of topics presented in the Social Ecological Model (...

Indiana University: The Bloomington Nexus Project

The Bloomington Nexus project creates a translational model for improving transitional care for patients who have been discharged from acute care.

Indiana University Health Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Model

The Accountable Care Unit (ACU) model encompasses unit-based clinical triads that consist of the RN, MD, and care manager, who use team-based care; relational coordination with shared goals, shared knowledge and mutual respect; unit-based leadership and management; patient centered workflow that incorporates daily clinical triad “huddles” on individual patient concerns, RN/MD collaborative...

University of Minnesota: Utilizing IPECP for Dentistry and Pharmacy

This project is focused on interprofessional education and collaborative practice between pharmacists and oral health professionals by adding medication therapy management services to existing general dentistry practice.

Loyola University Chicago: Interprofessional Care Coordination Teams to Address Diabetes

This project studies the impact of using a care coordination team on both outcomes for diabetic adult patients and outcomes for health care providers.

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center: Interprofessional Collaborative Practice services for cardiovascular risk reduction

The specific objectives of this Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Project are to promote cardiovascular risk reduction in Chronic Disease Management (CDM) through interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP); provide services to enhance the quality of care to the most vulnerable and high risk populations through IPCP; provide opportunities for interprofessional teaching...