The health care team challenge™: Developing an international interprofessional education research collaboration
Interprofessional education (IPE) to improve and increase interprofessional collaborative practice (IPC) has been documented for over 50 years in Canada, but it is within the last 15 years that it has gained attention in research, education and practice contexts. IPE is defined as two or more professions that learn with from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care (CAIPE 2002).
Indiana University Health Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Model
The Accountable Care Unit (ACU) model encompasses unit-based clinical triads that consist of the RN, MD, and care manager, who use team-based care; relational coordination with shared goals, shared knowledge and mutual respect; unit-based leadership and management; patient centered workflow that incorporates daily clinical triad “huddles” on individual patient concerns, RN/MD collaborative rounding, and safe handoffs; and data-driven unit-based decision making.
Indiana University: The Bloomington Nexus Project
The Bloomington Nexus project creates a translational model for improving transitional care for patients who have been discharged from acute care.
National Center Ambassadors
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A critical appraisal of instruments to measure outcomes of interprofessional education
CONTEXT:
Interprofessional education (IPE) is believed to prepare health professional graduates for successful collaborative practice. A range of instruments have been developed to measure the outcomes of IPE. An understanding of the psychometric properties of these instruments is important if they are to be used to measure the effectiveness of IPE.
OBJECTIVES:
New Research 10/24-10/30
From: Humanities
Employing mobile technology for a collaborative neighborhood IPE project serving vulnerable populations.
Oral session presented at the 142nd Annual Meeting and Expo of the American Public Health Association, in New Orleans, LA, 2014.
Integration of dental students into interprofessional clinical experiences with a disadvantaged population.
Poster session presented at the 142nd Annual Meeting and Expo of the American Public Health Association, in New Orleans, LA, 2014.
Adapting the McMaster-Ottawa scale and developing behavioral anchors for assessing performance in an interprofessional Team Observed Structured Clinical Encounter
This article provides research with standardized patients, supporting modification of the 9-point McMaster-Ottawa Scale to a 3-point scale with behavioral anchors that permits ease of use for rating individuals performing in teams and the team. The authors use G-theory to assess the accuracy of faculty rating health professions students trained to perform at 3 different skill levels.
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.