Resource Center

The ‘Integrative Wisdom’ series from Integrative Therapeutics is a collection of insights from individuals across the integrative medicine community, who share this common mission: making integrative medicine part of every healthcare discussion. Though we all have different perspectives on how we’ll get there…it’s clear we have a lot to offer one another, and that as a community, we can drive this mission forward and create real change in the world.  

A video describing the "Lessons from the Field: Promising Interprofessional Collaboration Practices" Report.

https://nexusipe.org/informing/resource-center/lessons-from-the-field

These videos show a care conference, convened by a public health nurse, with a patient's pharmacist, physician and veterinarian.  The first part highlights the struggles of facilitating an interprofessional group among professions who are used to working in their uniprofessional settings.  The second part shows partial resolution of the unhealthy team dynamics as facilitated by the public health nurse.

In March 2015, Dr. Frank Cerra spoke at a symposium at DePaul University, in which he provided an overview for advancing health care through the “Nexus.” Dr. Cerra stressed the rapid redesign of health care delivery and the subsequent need for health care leaders to strengthen their commitment to implementing an interprofessional approach.

Video courtesy of the DePaul University Advancement Office.

On April 14, 2015, Dr. Frank Cerra provided the keynote address at the Northern Maine Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Summit. During the presentation, he highlighted the work of the National Center in driving national change to a team-based, outcome-focused model of practice.

Please note this presentation was given remotely, via WebEx.

Picker Institute’s Eight Principles of Patient-Centered Care originated with the Seven Dimensions of Patient-Centered Care, whose development was traced in the 1993 groundbreaking book Through the Patient’s Eyes. Using a wide range of focus groups—recently discharged patients, family members, physicians and non-physician hospital staff—combined with a review of pertinent literature, researchers from Harvard Medical School, on behalf of Picker Institute and The Commonwealth Fund, defined seven primary dimensions of patient-centered care.

The Interprofessional Health Council (IPHC) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is a student organization with representation from 13 different health professional programs on campus.  Funded in part by a generous grant from Target, IPHC recently hosted its annual educational conference.  Over 100 students and faculty attended "Collaborating for Care: Interprofessional Health Summit 2015," which featured Barbara Brandt, PhD, Director of the National Center, as a keynote speaker.  Watch Dr. Brandt's address at the link below.   

Health care educators in Massachusetts and Rhode Island have collaborated around nursing and other health professions education for years. The Partners Investing in Nursing’s Future (PIN) project, Building a Regional Institute for Inter-Professional Education, highlighted in this video, shows how they worked together to build an institute to strengthen inter-professional education (IPE) in the region.

On October 7, 2014, an IOM committee examined the methods needed to measure the impact of interprofessional education (IPE) on collaborative practice, patient outcomes or both, as determined by the available evidence.

In this video, presenters Tina Brashers, Mattie Schmitt, and Jill Thistlethwaite discuss current and historical barriers to change in IPE and IPP and how to move the field forward.

On October 7, 2014, an IOM committee examined the methods needed to measure the impact of interprofessional education (IPE) on collaborative practice, patient outcomes or both, as determined by the available evidence.

In this video, Jill Thistlethwaite discusses: