Four Habits of High Performance Teams & Teamwork from a Person-Centered Perspective
What personal values characterize members of high performance teams? What core principles are associated with high quality team-based health care? What is a person-centered perspective
With emphasis on a person-centered perspective, these and other questions are explored in this interactive eLearning module to illustrate the alignment of personal values and core principles with practice habits – competency behaviors – associated with high performance teams and teamwork in health care.
The State of Inteprofessional Practice and Education in Turbulent Times!
Dr. Barbara F. Brandt and Dr. Susan M. Meyer presented and led a facilitated workshop with attendees from University of Texas Houston at UTHealth Advances in Teaching and Learning Day on June 9, 2017.
Modified McMaster-Ottawa 4-item Scale
This 4-item, 3-point scale is modified from the original 7-item scale and is adapted for ease of applicability to clinical settings. It is intended for the assesment of individuals within an interprofessional team in a patient encounter, to provide performance feedback. The scale was validated in the standardized setting of a Team Objective Structured Clinical Encounter (Generalizability coefficient .73). It can be applied to any health profession. The behaviors/skills observed are Collaboration, Roles, Patient/Family-Centeredness and Conflict Management.
When Less is More: Validating a Brief Scale to Rate Interprofessional Team Competencies
There is a need for validated and easy-to-apply behavior-based tools for assessing interprofessional team competencies in clinical settings. The 7-item observer-based Modified McMaster-Ottawa scale was developed for the Team Objective Structured Clinical Encounter (TOSCE) to assess individual and team performance in interprofessional patient encounters. We aimed to improve scale usability for clinical settings by reducing item number while maintaining generalizability; and to explore the minimum number of observed cases required to achieve modest generalizability for giving feedback.
Standards for the Practice of Recreational Therapy
The ATRA Standards for the Practice of Recreational Therapy & Self-Assessment Guide, published in 2013, consists of 12 standards and the Self-Assessment Guide (SOP/SAG). The manual was written in a format that provides a comprehensive description of recreational therapy practice, consistent with requirements of accrediting and regulatory agencies and quality recreational therapy practice.
Accelerating Initiative Cohort
This is a private group for teams that are part of the Accelerating Initiative Cohort. The goal of the initiative is for health and other professional schools, with a history of collaboration, to work together with a community partner and the individuals and families that it serves to develop innovative, creative and sustainable interprofessional clinical initiatives that accelerate their existing interprofessional education.
This group space will be used for quick access to tools for participants, an area for private discussion, and upcoming events/announcements.
Carl in the Nexus
To elucidate a new and imagined way of systems thinking about the Nexus, the National Center Team first introduced Amina in the Nexus. Through Amina’s story, individuals see the potential of the Nexus to align health care redesign and interprofessional education to achieve the Triple Aim of improving the patient experience of care, improving the health of populations and reducing the per capita cost of health care.