University of Southern Indiana: Student Team Develop Comprehensive Care Plans
Students engage with the Veteran’s Administration (VA) Patient Aligned Care Teams (PACT), as well as nurse practitioners and support staff from the USI Community Health Centers, to develop comprehensive care plans and provide patient care. The teams are charged with developing a plan of care that addresses an individual’s primary health care needs.
Resources for the plan include individual, family and community assessments, and it is developed in collaboration with the IPE team, the individual and the family/support system. The teams also integrate technology such as telehealth to assist and support the patients for better self-management of their health. USI faculty members serve as Interprofessional Clinical Coaches (ICC) at each location. Intended intervention outcomes include improved management of chronic conditions and reduced hospital admissions.
Creighton University: The Interprofessional Education Passport
The intent of the project is to train health professions students to be collaboration ready, allowing them to enter the workforce prepared to provide care via interprofessional teams. The curriculum facilitates students’ thinking about how individual providers and the health care system can improve care for vulnerable populations.
Indiana University: The Bloomington Nexus Project
The Bloomington Nexus project creates a translational model for improving transitional care for patients who have been discharged from acute care.
South Dakota Nexus: Transdisciplinary Obesity Prevention
This project focuses on changes among graduate students regarding attitudes and skills that impact their capabilities for addressing population health. Surveys and other assessment tools will be used to measure changes over time. Using a transdisciplinary team of experts in childhood obesity, students will be introduced to the interrelationship of topics presented in the Social Ecological Model (SEM) for Nutrition and Physical Activity Decisions.
University of Minnesota: Enhancing the Primary Care Clinic Team
DFMCH is testing transformative standardized teamwork using an interprofessional practice and education (IPE) approach that includes the patient in the learning, practice and outcome model.
Oregon Health & Science University: Community-Based Interprofessional Care Access Network
The Interprofessional Care Access Network (I-CAN) creates synergy between academic programs, community services and health care delivery by facilitating interprofessional experiences for students, faculty and practitioners through Neighborhood Collaboratives for Academic-Practice Partnerships (NCAPPs).
Kansas University Medical Center: Faculty Preceptors for IPE
In an effort to enhance primary care delivery, this intervention develops an interprofessional practice and education (IPE) curriculum for preceptors who are jointly affiliated with both health care education and clinical practice.
Grand Valley State University: IPE to Improve Diabetes Health Outcomes
A student team of medical, physician assistant and pharmacy students are working with health care providers at Cherry Street Health Center, a non-profit Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), to provide collaborative care during clinical appointments and through daily huddles, case conferences, patient call backs and patient education classes about diabetes.
Arizona Nexus: Improving Health Outcomes in Independent Senior Housing
The Interprofessional Center for Health and Social Services at the Westward Ho is a student-run, faculty-supervised training unit that provides onsite supportive services to 300 residents of a low-income senior housing community in downtown Phoenix.