Interprofessional education in team communication: Working together to improve patient safety
BACKGROUND: Communication failures in healthcare teams are associated with medical errors and negative health outcomes. These findings have increased emphasis on training future health professionals to work effectively within teams. The Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) communication training model, widely employed to train healthcare teams, has been less commonly used to train student interprofessional teams.
The Use of Symbol, Myth, Model and Ritual in Interdisciplinary Professional Education
This paper was originally published in the Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Interdisciplinary Health Team Care Conference, which took place September 10-12, 1987 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. It is reproduced here with the permission of the authors.
Health professionals for the 21st century: A students' view
The report of the Global Commission on Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century, in The Lancet, calls for a new era of professional education. The production of this report was a tall task, and we applaud the commissioners for taking on such a challenge. Its publication has the potential to profoundly change the way we train future health professionals.
I-CAN Quarterly Newsletter- Winter 2014
This is the Winter, 2014 newsletter of the Interprofessional Care Access Network (I-CAN), a 3-year grant project funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration based at the Oregon Health & Science University.
I-CAN Quarterly Newsletter- Summer 2014
This is the Summer, 2014 newsletter of the Interprofessional Care Access Network (I-CAN), a 3-year grant project funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration based at the Oregon Health & Science University.
I-CAN Quarterly Newsletter- Fall 2013
This is the November, 2013 newsletter of the Interprofessional Care Access Network (I-CAN), a 3-year grant project funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration based at the Oregon Health & Science University.
Changing Courses: A Conversation with Connie Delaney
Jim Meyer talks with Connie Delaney, dean of the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, about what nursing schools - and individual students - need to know and possess to thrive in these changing times.
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Improving geriatric transitional care through inter-professional care teams
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine the impact of the use of an inter-professional care team on patient length of stay and payer charges in a geriatric transitional care unit.
METHODS: An analysis of de-identified administrative records for transitional care patients for the 12-month period (2003-2004) cared for by the inter-professional team (n = 163) and cared for by traditional single provider care model (n = 176) was carried out. We conducted logistic regression on length of stay and charges controlling for patient demographics and acuity levels.
Commentary: Educating the present and future health care workforce to provide care to populations
The crisis of the rising cost of health care in the United States is stimulating major changes in the way care is being delivered. New models such as patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations are being developed with the expectation that health care professionals will address and improve the health of populations. Electronic health records and interprofessional teams will be critical to achieving the goal of better health.
Theory and practice in interprofessional ethics: A framework for understanding ethical issues in health care teams
Interprofessional teamwork is an essential and expanding form of health care practice. While moral issues arising in teamwork relative to the patient have been explored, the analysis of ethical issues regarding the function of the team itself is limited. This paper develops a conceptual framework for organizing and analyzing the different types of ethical issues in interprofessional teamwork. This framework is a matrix that maps the elements of principles, structures, and processes against individual, team, and organizational levels.
