A Nursing Workforce Diversity Project: Strategies for Recruitment, Retention, Graduation, and NCLEX-RN Success
The purpose of this article is to describe a collaborative project designed to recruit and retain students from underrepresented minorities and studnets from disadvantaged backgrounds into nursing education. The School of Nursing worked with the AHEC Program Office for on-campus health professions program enhancements and with the communtiy-based AHEC regional center to engage in high-school level programming.
Development of the Assessment for Collaborative Environments (ACE-15): A Tool to Measure Perceptions of Interprofessional "Teamness"
As interprofessional education moves from classroom to clinical settings, assessing clinical training sites for a high level of “teamness” to ensure optimal learning environments is critical but often problematic ahead of student placement. We developed a tool (Assessment for Collaborative Environments, or ACE), suitable for a range of clinical settings and health professionals, that allows rapid assessment of a clinical practice’s teamwork qualities. We collected evidence of tool validity including content, response process, internal structure, and convergent validity.
Interprofessional Education & Collaborative Practice: The "New" Forty-Year-Old Field
This presentation was delivered by Barbara Brandt on May 12, 2016 at the Spring Interprofessional Consortium Workshop at the University of Southern Indiana.
