Nexus Innovations Network

Advancing 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.

 

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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 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. 

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. 
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