Cultural Competence for Health Professionals
This online, self-paced course is designed for health professions students (including dental students) to provide a foundation in cultural competence and strategies to appropriately address cross-cultural issues in clinical settings. The course will prepare you to begin the journey toward competently and confidently interacting successfully with individuals from a diversity of cultures.
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Beginning the Journey: Awareness
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Building Cultural Knowledge
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.
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.
e-Professionalism
This online, self-paced course is designed for students and faculty/clinical professionals to learn how to optimize the use of social media tools in their personal and professional lives. Many people will say, “Hey, I know all that already!” However, actual viewing and reflecting on real-world inadvertent social media misuse can provide new insights into every day practices.
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Common social media sites and their purposes
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Safe ways faculty and students can use social media sites
American Assembly for Men in Nursing Presentation September 25, 2015
Keynote presentation to the American Assembly for Men in Nursing, September 25, 2015
The IPE Movement: Thinking and Acting Differently at the Nexus
About the Nexus
The Nexus is a means of connecting health care practice and education – creating a true partnership and shared responsibility, conversation, language and learning.
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National Advisory Council
The national advisory council provides independent, expert advice and guidance –grounded in the broad perspectives and experiences of its members – to advance the field of interprofessional practice and education. Members of the council are strategic thought partners, collaborators and catalysts for action.