EIC-ICU Toolkit: Enhancing Interprofessional Collaboration in the Intensive Care Unit
The EIC-ICU Toolkit is a series of three tools that are based on extensive theoretically informed qualitative research in a number of ICUs across North America. The Toolkit aims to address the related issues of interprofessional collaboration and patient family involvement in the ICU in an effort to improve the safety and quality of care delivery. These tools in this toolkit can be used collectively, as stand-alone activities, or can be incorporated into existing interprofessional team activities.
Lessons from the Field: Promising Interprofessional Collaboration Practices: Video
A video describing the "Lessons from the Field: Promising Interprofessional Collaboration Practices" Report.
https://nexusipe.org/informing/resource-center/lessons-from-the-field
An Examination of Interprofessional Team Functioning in a BScN Blended Learning Program: Implications for Accessible Distance-Based Nursing Education Programs
In this study, the perceptions and experiences of an interprofessional team responsible for the development and delivery of the Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) Blended Learning Program at Nipissing University were examined. In this program, RPNs can acquire a BScN through distance-based part-time study, including online courses and clinical practicum. In three years, the program has grown from an initial intake of 60 students to a current enrolment of over 600 students (Fitzgerald, Beattie, Carter, & Caswell, 2014).
National Center Annual Report: Igniting the Movement
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This report highlights four areas of National Center progress during Year Three. Because of the sheer volume of National Center activity, we have chosen our most important achievements – showing where we are making a significant difference in the national conversation about health care transformation.
Highlights of Year Three include:
Leadership Development for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
Leadership Development of Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice is an edited compilation of chapters written by international medical and health professional experts. The book provides historical and current perspectives on leadership in healthcare.
Featured Chapter: Chapter 7, Interprofessional Leadership Development in the United States, authored by Alan Dow, Amy Blue, Shelley Kohn Conrad, Mark Earnest, Amy Leaphart, & Scott Reeves, includes case studies from Nexus Innovation Network sites
A comparative study of professional and interprofessional values between health professional associations
The need for effective interprofessional collaboration to ensure safe patient care is crucial. However, health professions are guided by separate professional codes of conduct. To examine whether professional codes are consistent across professions, this review examines 13 key health professional associations in the United States and compares their values to the guiding principles of interprofessional practice defined by the Interprofessional Professionalism Collaborative (IPC).
National Center Data Repository (NCDR) Advisory Council
Data are critical in measuring how the Nexus improves patient care and health professions education, population health and cost. The NCDR advisory council counsels National Center staff on developing surveys and other evaluation tools that can be used to measure the overall effectiveness of interprofessional practice and education.
Upcoming Minneapolis Meetings:
April 13, 2016
November 17-18, 2016
National Advisory Council Members
The national advisory council provides independent, expert advice and guidance –grounded in the broad perspectives and experiences of its members – to advance the field of interprofessional practice and education. Members of the council are strategic thought partners, collaborators and catalysts for action.
Upcoming Meetings:
May 2-3, 2016
Why we need interprofessional education to improve the delivery of safe and effective care
Interprofessional education (IPE) is an activity that involves two or more professions who learn interactively together to improve collaboration and the quality of care. Research has continually revealed that health and social care professionals encounter a range of problems with interprofessional coordination and collaboration which impact on the quality and safety of care. This empirical work resulted in policymakers across health care education and practice to invest in IPE to help resolve this collaborative failures.
Interprofessional Education of Health Professionals: Social Workers Should Lead the Way
Editorial in Health & Social Work focusing on the opportunity for the field of social work to lead the IPE field.