Nurse practitioner interactions in acute and long-term care: an exploration of the role of knotworking in supporting interprofessional collaboration
Interprofessional care ensures high quality healthcare. Effective interprofessional collaboration is required to enable interprofessional care, although within the acute care hospital setting interprofessional collaboration is considered suboptimal. The integration of nurse practitioner roles into the acute and long-term care settings is influencing enhanced care. What remains unknown is how the nurse practitioner role enacts interprofessional collaboration or enables interprofessional care to promote high quality care.
Oral Health: An Untapped Resource in Managing Glycemic Control in Diabetes and Promoting Overall Health
Congratulations to our colleague and member of the OHNEP National Nursing Oral Health Workgroup, Dr.
Interprofessional Education: Oral Health and Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Adults
The power point presentation with audio and embedded video clips presents an overview of the relationship of oral health to overall systemic health in mechanically ventilated adults.
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.
The Health Care Team: A Fifty Year Old "New" Idea
In celebration of the North Hennepin Community College 50th Anniversary, Barbara Brandt serves as the keynote speaker with Sahra Noor, CEO of People's Center Health Services on October 28, 2015.
Brandt discusses how the vision fifty years ago for community colleges and health care teams are reconnecting today around teams and new models of care.
Congratulations North Hennepin Community College!
Work-Based Assessment of Teamwork: An Interprofessional Approach
Lead Institution: The University of Queensland
Authors: The iTOFT Consortium, Australia (2015)
This project focuses on the development of a work-based assessment tool to enable feedback to individuals in relation to teamwork.
Front Desk United
For those who have to spend too much time at the front desk coordinating and triaging, while preferring to be part of the team providing care to patients.
Interprofessional Practice, Research, and Education
This webinar was presented by Barbara Brandt and Nawal Lutfiyya on September 24, 2015 to the Association for Nurse Professional Development.
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To familiarize learners with the current state of interprofessional practice, research and education.
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describe the current state of IPE, CP research as an intersected activity taking place within a nexus
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Right Side Up: Interprofessional Falls Prevention Education
This course prepares students, faculty and healthcare providers to perform their roles in assessing the risk of falls of people over age 65 as part of the Right Side Up project, currently in Fergus Falls, MN. The course illustrates how an interprofessional student program can provide value to a community, with a straightforward training and assessment program provided as an online component.
