Nexus Summit Workshop 8

Workshop #8: Catalyzing Interprofessional Collaborative Practice in Existing Clinical Teams: Interactive Approaches to Building Teams

University of Washington

Nurse Education Practice, Quality and Retention

Presentation:

Catalyzing Interprofessional Collaborative Practice in Existing Clinical Teams: Interactive Approaches to Building Teams

Presenters:

Erin Blakeney, Debra Liner, Amanda Moore, Mayumi Willgerodt & Brenda Zierler

Topics:

Getting to Know Each Other; Promoting Teamwork, Patient Safety and Quality Improvement in IPE

Overview:

The need to accelerate integration of interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) approaches into clinical settings is increasingly recognized as an essential nexus for improvement of healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. The University of Washington has been working with heart failure (HF) care teams since 2014 to improve communication and patient care through introduction of interprofessional collaborative practice team strategies (e.g., structured interprofessional bedside rounding, TeamSTEPPS communication training, and change team formation). Innovative interactive strategies (known as “Liberating Structures” (LS’s)) have proved invaluable in helping interprofessional clinical teams collectively identify practice improvement goals, increase shared knowledge of team members’ roles and perspectives, and promote positive relationships and culture change within teams. LS approaches facilitate break down of hierarchy and increased engagement from all participants. In this workshop the University of Washington team will: 1) share how they have used interactive LS approaches with existing interprofessional clinical teams and 2) invite workshop participants to engage and experience in the same types of activities.  

Workshop participants in this fun hands-on workshop will learn and experience interactive approaches to team building and process improvement. “Liberating Structures” has been successful in IPECP heart failure projects at the University of Washington, and workshop leaders will show how to apply these skills to interprofessional work.  Activities that will be experienced include:  impromptu networking, description/theory burst, network mapping, Troika consulting, and crowd sourcing to rapidly generate powerful ideas from a group. 

Learner Objectives:

1. Describe interactive approaches that can be used to support the goals of clinical IPCP improvement projects;

2. Model interactive approaches;

3. Evaluate which interactive approaches can be used in their setting;

4. Develop a broader network of conference attendees who have similar interests in utilizing innovative approaches to promote collaborative behavior and practice transformation to improve outcomes.