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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University of Alabama at Birmingham: The Role of Interprofessional Faculty Development in Improving Collaborative Practice Behavior Competencies

This project focuses on the impact of an intensive 4-day faculty development course on simulation debriefing. The intensive course will include didactic and reflective exercises for use in a simulation setting.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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 (...

University of Pittsburgh: Non-physician Led, Interprofessional Teams in a Trauma Clinic

Advanced practice providers (APPs) are joined by licensed professionals and students from physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech language pathology, audiology, nutritional counseling and rehabilitation counseling to develop comprehensive care plans and provide patient care.

University of Minnesota: Mindfulness and Wellbeing for the Mature Woman

The Women's Health Specialist clinic has developed a six-week course about health and wellness in the context of menopause. This interprofessional health education program seeks to improve a woman's mid-life health by increasing adherence to prevention guidelines, increasing effective utilization of self-care strategies and planning for future health needs associated with aging.

University of Minnesota: Enhancing the Primary Care Clinic Team

DFMCH is testing transformative standardized teamwork using an interprofessional practice and education (IPE) approach that includes the patient in the learning, practice and outcome model.