The intent of the project is to train health professions students to be collaboration ready, allowing them to enter the workforce prepared to provide care via interprofessional teams. The curriculum facilitates students’ thinking about how individual providers and the health care system can improve care for vulnerable populations. 

This project focuses on the impact of an intensive 4-day faculty development course on simulation debriefing. The intensive course will include didactic and reflective exercises for use in a simulation setting.

The specific objectives of this Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention (NEPQR) Project are to promote cardiovascular risk reduction in Chronic Disease Management (CDM) through interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP); provide services to enhance the quality of care to the most vulnerable and high risk populations through IPCP; provide opportunities for interprofessional teaching and learning experiences for health professions students; and improve access to quality care for vulnerable individuals in Lubbock and surrounding counties.

This project studies the impact of using a care coordination team on both outcomes for diabetic adult patients and outcomes for health care providers.