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Innovations in Oral Health, February 2015 Newsletter

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Learner attitudes toward collaboration with other professions are critical in the development and implementation of interprofessional educational activities. Attitude assessment provides baseline information, determines needs and can be used to evaluate impact of learning.

This guide, developed by the National Center, lists and links to resources which can help organizations assess attitudes.

Conflict in teams can impact care quality, patient safety, patient satisfaction, and morale through decreased and/or dysfunctional communication. Although conflict is a natural part of life and work it is often unmanaged or mismanaged and can result in compromised care. 

This guide, developed by the National Center, lists and links to resources that can help organizations address and manage conflict in interprofessional teams. 

This National Center-commissioned monograph provides basic information about good practices and processes in measurement instrument selection, development and use.
 

Viewed as a “primer” on interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) evaluation and assessment, it does not make recommendations on specific tools or tell individuals what to measure. Instead the primer guides readers on what to look for when selecting a tool, the importance of defining purpose and how to assess a tool’s evidence of validity.
 

Health and health care now occupy a well-deserved place of prominence in the national conversation. Prompted in part by the debate over health reform, we are now starting to examine and question virtually everything we know, or thought we knew, about our health care system—and our own roles and responsibilities as users of that system.

What we’re seeing is a marked shift away from blithe acquiescence to the status quo, and toward creating a "culture of health."

But what does that mean?

The Interprofessional Oral Health Faculty Tool Kits are based on the IPEC Competencies, the NONPF Core Competencies and the HRSA interprofessional oral health core competencies delineated in the Integration of Oral Health and Primary Care Practice report (2014).

The following is a digital version of Hugh Barr's Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) by published work, awarded by the University of Greenwich.

The author writes:  "The 18 papers submitted are a cross-section of my publications in interprofessional education (IPE) since becoming actively engaged in that field in 1989. They comprise four themes. Each is updated and complemented by additional conceptualizations. Together, they point to the need to: