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An Always Events® is a clear, action-oriented, and pervasive practice or set of behaviors that provides the following:

PROMIS® stands for Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System, which is a system of highly reliable, precise measures of patient–reported health status for physical, mental, and social well–being. PROMIS® tools measure what patients are able to do and how they feel by asking questions. PROMIS measures can be used as primary or secondary endpoints in clinical studies of the effectiveness of treatment, and PROMIS® tools can be used across a wide variety of chronic diseases and conditions and in the general population.

IP-COMPASS is a quality improvement framework to help clinical settings become better prepared to provide intentional interprofessional learning experiences (i.e., learning experiences that help students develop skills for interprofessional collaboration). It provides a structured process to help you understand the types of organizational values, structures, processes, practices and behaviours that, when aligned, can create an environment that is conducive to interprofessional learning.

This version of the IPEC Competency Self-Assessment Tool is a 42-item self-assessment questionnaire with items based on the competencies defined by the Interprofessional Education Collaboartive expert panel. It is designed for health professional students to rate their ability level on each competency using a 5-point Likert scale.

The Assessment of Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale (AITCS) is a 37 item inventory with 4 subscales:  partnership, cooperation, coordination, and shared decision making.  Authors concluded it was a valid and reliable instrument. They  found it to load on 3 factors explaining 61.02% of the variance.  Internal consistency reliability for each subscale ranged from 0.80 to 0.97, with an overall reliability of 0.98.

Satisfaction survey, endorsed by NQF, to evaluate family satisfaction of hospice care.  Developed by National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization in collaboration with Dr. Joan Teno, Brown University.

The APTR Healthy People Curriculum Task Force developed the Curriculum Guide for Health Professions Faculty to prepare students to participate effectively as members of interprofessional health care teams delivering clinical prevention and population health services. 

The Safety Organizing Scale was developed by Vogus and Sutcliffe at Indiana University School of Nursing and IU school of Medicine. This is a tool that is robust , valid and reliable . We will be using the measuement tool with the NEPQR grant to cultivate IPCP enviroments both in Acute ACC and rural health clinic sites .

Validity and Reliability of the Safety Organizing Scale

Paper survey for assessing patient satisfaction with the interprofessional outpatient experience. Patients are asked to complete 14 questions, 13 quantitative and 1 qualitative. 11 items are scored via a 5-point Likert scale. 2 items are Yes/No. Surveys were anonymous, and offered at the end of a clinical encounter. 

This tool is designed to help assess the extent to which the group being observed is behaving as an interprofessional team.