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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Oregon Health & Science University: Assessing & Enhancing Clinical Education Sites for IPECP

Assessing and Enhancing Clinical Education Sites for IPE, or ACE intervention, is focused on placing learners in clinical education sites where teams with high levels of "teamness" model interprofessional collaborative practice. This intervention enhances the interface between education and clinical practice - also known as the Nexus - by focusing on educating learners in clinical settings where...

University of Minnesota: Achieving Healthy Children with Collaborative Care

CUHCC, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), serves a linguistically diverse patient population with a majority of families living below the federal poverty level. This intervention observes the impact of TeamSTEPPS training and equity and diversity training for its staff on outcomes associated with diabetes and other chronic diseases, immunizations, well-child check-ups, weight screening,...

University of Kentucky: Interprofessional Care Across Transitions for Stroke Patients

The UK Colleges of Health Sciences, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health are collaborating on an interprofessional simulation Intervention to improve care for stroke patients. The simulation phase will demonstrate the importance of interprofessional collaborative practice and guide providers and students on how to become effective team members.

University of Colorado: An Interprofessional Curriculum to Improve Quality and Safety

This educational intervention is intended to drive clinical change. The curriculum focuses on patient safety, creating a "just culture," patient experience and continuous quality improvement (QI). Interprofessional student teams, together with the interprofessional faculty QI teams, identify gaps in the transitions of care between care units.

Oregon Health & Science University: Community-Based Interprofessional Care Access Network

The Interprofessional Care Access Network (I-CAN) creates synergy between academic programs, community services and health care delivery by facilitating interprofessional experiences for students, faculty and practitioners through Neighborhood Collaboratives for Academic-Practice Partnerships (NCAPPs).

Oregon Health & Science University: EHR's to Enhance Collaborative Care & Outcomes

The focus of this intervention study is to improve, expand and standardize provider and student knowledge and use of an electronic health record (EHR) on both the individual and system level.

Medical University of South Carolina: Team Training to Improve Quality and Safety Outcomes

This collaborative intervention evaluates how team training for student learners and clinicians improves quality and safety outcomes in the clinical setting.

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.