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The University of Minnesota has partnered with the community to teach pharmacy, medical and nursing students how to connect with their patients through proper communication.

Illness is collaborative. It’s not just a list of symptoms and a diagnosis, but a story. That’s the philosophy behind a new educational initiative at the Community‐University Health Care Center (CUHCC).

RATIONALE: Accurate data communication during daily patient care rounds is essential yet challenging in the data-dense intensive care unit (ICU) environment. The electronic health record (EHR) is a data management tool utilized in many ICUs yet its impact on data communication during rounds is uncertain. Our previous work showed that ICU providers preparing for rounds extract only 78% of available 24-hour lab data from the EHR and accurately communicate only 61% of this information during rounds.

RATIONALE: Daily interprofessional (IP) rounds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) serve as a safety net for recognition of safety issues. Yet, the full effectiveness of identifying these issues is unknown. Our prior study has shown individual members of the IP team are poor in recognition of safety issues in the electronic health record (EHR). IP groups use the EHR dissimilarly and have a tendency to recognize safety issues in predictable domains. Through an EHR based simulation, we examined the effectiveness of IP collaboration during ICU rounds in the recognition of safety issues.

This article is a report of a study done to evaluate the effect of A Structured Program to guide Resident Experience in Research (ASPIRE) on pharmacy residents’ knowledge, confidence, and attitude toward research. 

In October 2014, the National Center for Integrative Primary Healthcare (NCIPH) was launched as a collaboration between the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and the Academic Consortium for Integrative Health and Medicine and supported by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration. A primary goal of the NCIPH is to develop a core set of integrative healthcare (IH) competencies and educational programs that will span the interprofessional primary care training and practice spectrums and ultimately become a required part of primary care education.

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The individual Teamwork Observation and Feedback Tool (iTOFT) was devised by a consortium of seven universities in recognition of the need for a means of observing and giving feedback to individual learners undertaking an interprofessional teamwork task. It was developed through a literature review of the existing teamwork assessment tools, a discussion of accreditation standards for the health professions, Delphi consultation and field-testing with an emphasis on its feasibility and acceptability for formative assessment.

This is an article published in the International Journal of Nursing & Clinical Practices.  Online access is available through the provided link.

This article describes two strategies used to produce a more diverse RN workforce by increasing recruitment and retention efforts and supporting students entering nursing programs through successful matriculation and graduation. The recruitment program exposed 392 high school students to careers in nursing, with a subsequent enrollment of 21 students into nursing education programs.