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.
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.
Guest Editorial: The US National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Measurement and Assessment Collection
Barbara Brandt and Connie Schmitz published a guest editorial in the Journal of Interprofessional Care in 2017, outlining the approach to and rationale for the redesign of the National Center's measurement instrument collection on NexusIPE.org.
From the Introduction:
Indiana University Bloomington Navigator Program
Indiana University Bloomington senior nursing and second year medical students work with the Indiana University Health Bloomington Transitional Care Nurse manager to conduct home visits to patients discharged from acute care who are high risk for readmission.
Assessment and Evaluation Relaunch Webinar 1-30-17
Introducing the Assessment and Evaluation Home Page: Launch of the redesigned Measurement Instrument Collection and Practical Guides
Workforce Redesign for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice: Using Simulation to Create Interprofessional Team across health care settings
Professional Gaps and Educational Needs: Despite high functioning interprofessional teams being present at acute care and inpatient rehabilitation, a significant amount of information is lost in the transition between facilities. A retrospective chart review revealed 30-80% of information related to common complications after stroke was missing.
Objectives:
Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
Health care is moving toward a workforce that emphasizes teamwork competencies and working in teams of providers to optimally meet health care needs. To be prepared for the realities of ongoing care delivery changes, health professions education is changing to include a greater focus on Interprofessional Education, preparing all health professions students to deliberately work together in order to build a better quality, more efficient, and safer health care system.