Nexus Summit Workshop 12

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    Workshop #12: A Quick Clinical IPE Roll-out: Is It Possible? 

    University of Southern Indiana

    Nexus Innovation Network

    Nurse Education Practice, Quality and Retention

    Presentation: 

    A Quick clinical IPE Roll-out: Is it Possible?  

    Presenters:

    Constance Swenty, Gina Schaar & Ryan Butler

    Topic:

    Getting to Know Each Other

    Overview:

    The University of Southern Indiana (USI) serves an important role in interprofessional practice and education implementation in a community health center and Veterans Affairs clinics in three states:  Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois. The USI program provides important access to care for patients and their families in these settings while engaging students in many academic programs.  Along the way, program leaders have learned many lessons:  how to advance the IPE movement through engagement; how to expose practicing health professionals with little prior interprofessional experience to the value of IPE through the implementation of student health profession teams; how to foster an environment where practicing health professionals and student teams work toward common goals and optimize patient care delivery; how to engage and empower patients in their own self-care management; and how to instill and ignite an excitement for IPE that has permeated the culture of the college of nursing and health professions, raising the standard of team-based learning.

    Workshop participants will receive practical tips to the development and implementation of a comprehensive IPE clinical experience. This experience includes initial creation of the project, projection of the timeline, recruitment of the team and key stakeholders, orientation of participants, reflection on successes and barriers, and tools for evaluation.  The practical IPE clinical experience achieves the Triple Aim outcomes supported by the Nexus Innovation Network.

    Learner Objectives:

    1. Describe the USI model for interprofessional practice and education development to engage student teams and health professionals in underserved areas;

    2. Identify strategies to achieve stakeholder buy-in;

    3. Create a plan to overcome barriers and enable stakeholders to work and learn together in their own institution;

    4. Develop an evaluative approach that changes practice, enhances student learning, and supports patient outcomes.