Introduction to Interprofessional Teamwork
This online, self-paced course provides learners with foundational knowledge of interprofessional teamwork concepts. Topics include:
- Stages of team development and group processes
- Effective teamwork and high quality patient care
- Interprofessional collaboration competencies
- Team structure strategies
- Application of teamwork in clinical rotations
Introduction to Palliative Care
This course provides an overview of the field of palliative care, including a self-assessment on basic palliative care concepts. The course also provides overviews and resources for each of the eight domains of palliative care (defined by the National Consensus Project) to be used as clinical practice guidelines for quality palliative care.
University of Pittsburgh: Non-physician Led, Interprofessional Teams in a Trauma Clinic
Advanced practice providers (APPs) are joined by licensed professionals and students from physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech language pathology, audiology, nutritional counseling and rehabilitation counseling to develop comprehensive care plans and provide patient care.
University of Minnesota: Enhancing the Primary Care Clinic Team
DFMCH is testing transformative standardized teamwork using an interprofessional practice and education (IPE) approach that includes the patient in the learning, practice and outcome model.
University of Colorado: An Interprofessional Curriculum to Improve Quality and Safety
This educational intervention is intended to drive clinical change. The curriculum focuses on patient safety, creating a "just culture," patient experience and continuous quality improvement (QI). Interprofessional student teams, together with the interprofessional faculty QI teams, identify gaps in the transitions of care between care units.
Medical University of South Carolina: Team Training to Improve Quality and Safety Outcomes
This collaborative intervention evaluates how team training for student learners and clinicians improves quality and safety outcomes in the clinical setting.
Arizona Nexus: Student Health Outreach for Wellness
This project provides health professions students an opportunity to develop interprofessional competencies in a “real world” clinical practice setting.
Arizona Nexus: Improving Health Outcomes in Independent Senior Housing
The Interprofessional Center for Health and Social Services at the Westward Ho is a student-run, faculty-supervised training unit that provides onsite supportive services to 300 residents of a low-income senior housing community in downtown Phoenix.
What About Ben?- Interprofessional Facilitation Case and Videos
These videos show a care conference, convened by a public health nurse, with a patient's pharmacist, physician and veterinarian. The first part highlights the struggles of facilitating an interprofessional group among professions who are used to working in their uniprofessional settings. The second part shows partial resolution of the unhealthy team dynamics as facilitated by the public health nurse.
Social Work Practice in an Era of Accountable Care and Team Based Care
This presentation was delivered on Aug. 28, 2015, to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Social Work.
