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 rounding, and safe handoffs; and data-driven unit-based decision making.
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 optimal teamwork skills are modeled.
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, preventive dental visits, mental health functioning, patient satisfaction and cost of care.
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.
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.