Co-Creating Health and Learning: Fostering Meaningful Patient Partnerships

The National Center intends to offer interprofessional continuing education credit for the live webinars and the recordings through December 31, 2025. Learners can claim credit for each of the webinars viewed as either live activities or recordings.

In support of improving patient care, this activity is being planned and implemented by The National Center Office of Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (National Center OICPD). The National Center OICPD is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. As a Jointly Accredited Provider, the National Center OICPD is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center OICPD maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits. The National Center OICPD (JA#: 4008105) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers (ATs). This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners who request it will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.

Date and Time: March 19 at 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Central

Patients who are deeply involved in their care have safer clinical outcomes than passive patients. Even patients who cannot advocate for themselves, but whose loved ones are involved, achieve clinical benefits. This has been documented in many studies. “Nothing about me without me” is a guiding principle for patient engagement, but this can be a challenge for healthcare providers. This webinar will inspire participants to share ideas and methods for improving the healthcare ecosystem’s capacity for patient engagement in the co-design of research, abstract development, and conference presentations. It is designed to be a dialogue between health professionals, educators, and a patient.

The webinar will be led by a patient who will share how to engage patients, families, and care partners at all levels of healthcare including conference presentations. The facilitator will present her lived experience around personal healthcare events using storytelling. The discussion following the storytelling will help health professionals and educators to engage patients/families/care partners in the co-designing of better patient communication and engagement to improve care delivery, research, and education. The facilitator will make the case for “Patient Shared Decision-Making” – what it is, why it matters, and how to set about its implementation. During this session attendees will be able to share ways to engage patients/families/care partners, including examples like in the co-design of education, research, abstract development, and involvement of patients/families/care partners in conference presentations using shared decision-making principles.

Learning Objectives:
After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Share why the patient, family, and care partner voice matter in all areas of the healthcare ecosystem, especially when it involves education, research, abstract development, and conference presentations.
2. Encourage the participants to be more invested and involved in care, education, and research development because of the lived experience of patients, families, and care partners.
3. Provide co-design activities that will help practitioners, educators, and organizations develop a plan for patient engagement using the principles of shared decision-making and co-design.

Date and Time:

Draft title ideas:

• Bridging Communication Gaps and Building Trust Between People With Diverse Lived Experience and their Care Teams
• Building Trust: Practical Strategies for Bridging Communication Gaps and Fostering Patient Engagement

Most of us have first hand experience navigating the healthcare system as a patient or supporting a friend or family member, even while living in our health professional or health professions educator roles. We intuitively know the importance of engaging in our own healthcare, and support patient engagement as part of the interprofessional team. What happens when communication or trust breakdowns prevent patients from fully engaging in their own care? What are strategies that health care providers and organizations can utilize to build trust to foster improved patient engagement, satisfaction, and outcomes?

In this webinar, a panel of people with diverse lived experiences will share their stories of navigating their health care systems and fostering interprofessional teamwork that includes the patient. Through their stories, they will propose practical ideas and approaches for organizations and teams to facilitate patient engagement. Attendees will hear a discussion on practical steps that they can take to build and sustain engagement of patient partners in interprofessional practice and education.

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Themes from Carl call:

• finding common ground among people with different lived experience
• how to navigate gaps in communication between patients and providers
• the patient as teacher of future health professionals
• patients as co-creators of our education and how to get started when folks are nervous about co-creating together
• your life lessons learned

Date and Time: April 14, 2025 11:00 - 12:30 p.m.

From its inception, the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (National Center) identified the needs and preferences of people served as the North Star of interprofessional practice. Optimum interprofessional health teams include the patient, family, caregiver, or advocate. However, many organizations, educators, and learners face challenges when working to engage patients and advocates as members of the education team. Since 2016, the National Center has convened the annual Nexus Summit as well as delivering diverse programs to support interprofessional teams worldwide. Through these experiences, we have engaged patients and advocates in various ways, some more successful than others, in collaboratively creating, delivering, and evaluating our programming. 

In this presentation, the National Center team will share strategies, lessons learned, and practical wisdom gained from nine years of patient engagement in designing education. Maryjan Fiala, our Patient Advisor, has experienced a variety of models of patient engagement and will co-lead this session, sharing her perspective on what works - and what doesn’t. Models for patient engagement in co-creating education will include examples from the Nexus Summit 2016-2024 and other team development programming. These examples, from refining a Call for Abstracts to explicitly evaluate the degree of patient engagement in peer-reviewed sessions, to budgeting for patient reimbursement, aim to lower barriers that stand in the way of meaningful patient engagement.

Reference:

Brandt, B., Dieter, C., & Arenson, C. (2023). From the Nexus vision to the NexusIPE™ Learning Model. Journal of Interprofessional Care, DOI: 10.1080/13561820.2023.2202223https://nexusipe.org/nexus-summithttps://leadership.nexusipe.org/forums/senior-leaders/schedule

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will:

1. Understand a variety of models to engage patients as co-creators and educators of health professionals and health teams.
2. Explore strategies to engage with patients, families, and communities locally to develop or enhance patient-engaged interprofessional education locally.