Toward a system where workforce planning and interprofessional practice and education are designed around patients and populations not professions
Traditional workforce planning methodologies and interprofessional education (IPE) approaches will not address the significant challenges facing health care systems seeking to integrate services, eliminate waste and meet rising demand within fixed or shrinking budgets. This article describes how New Zealand’s workforce planning approach could be used as a model by other countries to move toward needs-based, interprofessional workforce planning.
Nurse Education, Practice, Quality, and Practice: Registered Nurses in Primary Care (NEPQR-RNPC) Engagement Group
Welcome to the Nurse Education, Practice, Quality, and Practice: Registered Nurses in Primary Care (NEPQR-RNPC) Engagement Group. This forum serves as a place for the NEPQR-RNPC Program awardees to network, collaborate, and share relevant best practices, resources, information, and activities to advance the Program's goals.
Webinar: An Actionable Tool for the Interprofessional Team to Improve the Patient Experience
The Net Promoter System, used in many industries to gain customer loyalty and grow business, is also in use at UnitedHealth Group where the Center for Clinician Advancement (CFCA) implements learning, development and collaborative efforts to encourage interprofessional collaborative practice team development that improves quality of care for health care consumers. UnitedHealth Group uses the Net Promoter System (NPS) enterprise wide to improve the health care consumer experience.
Editorial: Interprofessional Education in the Age of Risk and Innovation
In July 2018, over 400 health professionals gathered in Minneapolis, MN to attend the Nexus Summit, “Creating Results: Interprofessional Vision to Action.” In her plenary address, Barbara Brandt, Director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, spoke about the seismic shifts occurring in health care and health professions education and the importance of asking the right questions. This editorial provides a synopsis of Brandt’s address and raises questions for nurse educators.
Scott Reeves: 1967-2018
In this editorial for the Journal of Interprofessional Care, authors including National Center director Barbara F. Brandt pay tribute to Scott Reeves, Editor-in-Chief.
Untying the Interprofessional Gordian Knot: The National Collaborative on Improving the Clinical Learning Environment
The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE) is a growing group of over 40 organizations representing a variety of health professions. NCICLE is beginning a discussion of issues related to culture in health care, specifically how the current culture inhibits optimal outcomes, and the discordance between current early interprofessional education (IPE) curricula in health professions schools and traditional practice models in health care. In October 2017, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Josiah Macy Jr.
Securing an Interprofessional Future for Australian Health Professional Education and Practice
The SIF Project has been funded to lead and develop a whole of system approach to Australian IPE as a way of contributing to the delivery of high quality, patient responsive and sustainable health services. The project team is working in close partnership with all relevant stakeholders to ensure that every student who graduates from an Australian university with a health profession qualification at entry level has achieved the core capabilities required for successful interprofessional and collaborative practice and continuing interprofessional learning across their professional lives.
Interprofessional Workforce Planning, Education and Practice Designed Around Patients and Populations
On March 28, 2018 Barbara Brandt and Erin Fraher presented the closing keynote at the Rhode Island Collaborative for Interprofessional Education and Practice's Spring 2018 Symposium. Their keynote included a deep dive into new "old school/new school" thinking about connecting new models of workforce planning, interprofessional education, and collaborative practice.
Dr. Barbara Brandt is Director of the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education and Associate Vice President in the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center.
IP by Design: Care Coordination, Integrated Care, ROI Attendees
A group for attendees of the March 2018 Interprofessional by Design Workshop.
Preceptors in the Nexus Spring 2018 Attendees
Attendees of the Spring 2018 instance of Preceptors in the Nexus: Interprofessional Learning IN Practice, may access electronic materials from the workshop here. This is a gathering space to share news, updates, and resources.