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The second edition of OHNEP's Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kit is an innovative open-source, user-friendly product for faculty to use for weaving oral health and its links to overall health into their Undergraduate nursing curricula. The undergraduate tool kit is designed to guide faculty in embedding "oral health bytes" into existing undergraduate nursing courses to demonstrate the oral-systemic connection.

The third edition of OHNEP's Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kits are open-source, user-friendly products for faculty to use for weaving oral health and its links to overall health into their Nurse Practitioner and Midwifery curricula. The latest versions of our Tool Kits align with the new AACN Essentials (2021), the NONPF Competencies (2022), ACNM Core Competencies (2020), HRSA Oral Health Competencies (2014), and IPEC Interprofessional Competencies (2016), and include up-to-date clinical practice guidelines and standards for integrating oral health into nurse practitioner and

Interprofessional Case Management Experience Students from multiple disciplines will meet together to consider a case, develop an interprofessional care plan, share documentation, and resolve a simulated case scenario. 

A rigorous 2-semester curriculum for the Certificate in Integrated Primary Care and Behavioral Health was designed and implemented as a 1-year training and evaluation tool with 22 BH-PC students. The curriculum was deigned through collaboration and integration from social work, counseling psychology and psychiatric nursing as a way to build upon the disciplines similarities and guide the students into a collaborative interdisciplinary perspective with their BH VOAs.

The Interprofessional Curriculum for Care of Older Adults (iCCOA), is a project funded by HRSA to develop and evaluate an interdisciplinary geriatric curriculum for medical, nursing, social work, counseling psychology, pharmacy, dentistry, and law students, fellows and residents. Other learners include professional health care workers, community organizers, peer mentors and frontline workers.

Escape rooms are a current fad sweeping across the county in which teams of players are usually “locked” in a room and have to solve a series of puzzles serially or in parallel to “escape” the room. This escape room concept was adapted at the University of Minnesota with the intention that teams of interprofessional students would work together to complete a series of puzzles found throughout the room. The experiences are embedded in a health care case scenario. This innovative gaming simulation can improve interprofessional communication and team skills.

The task of developing large-scale interprofessional education (IPE) across multiple health professions schools to meet accreditation standards is daunting.

Understanding the connection between climate and health is essential for health professionals of all disciplines.

Climate Change and Health: An Interprofessional Response consists of nine short slide decks that can be utilized to introduce the connection between climate change and health to health professionals. They are intended to be used by instructors and programs when teaching about the connection between climate and health in existing courses.

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This Curriculum for an Interprofessional Seminar on Integrated Primary Care (IS-IPC) is a resource to develop eductional experiences for an interprofessional group of learners about the competencies needed to work together in an integrated healthcare team.  It was designed for use with learners early in their health professions training although the content is ataptable for learners at other levels.  The IS-IPC contains eight modules that can be used individually or combined for a more extensive educational experience and can easily be customized for specific educational needs.  Topics incl

The Innovations in Oral Health (IOH) Toolkit is a faculty resource to facilitate oral health integration across health professions. The IOH Toolkit features activities for entry-level students and advanced, and most of these can be adapted for any health profession.

The IOH Toolkit contains: