Applying learning from self-directed work teams in business to curriculum development for interdisciplinary geriatric teams
Business settings, which increasingly promote the value of teamwork and self‐directed work teams (SDWTs), offer a popular model for team development training. SDWTs are formal, permanent organizational structures or units empowered to manage themselves and the work they do. SDWTs in business settings have many of the same features as, face similar issues and problems to, and have worked out solutions to many issues that also apply to interdisciplinary health care teams (IHTs).
Perceptions of Upper-Level Trainees in an Interdisciplinary Geriatrics Practicum: Implications for Curriculum Development
Twenty-nine graduate and upper level trainees from multiple health professions functioned as temporary members on an established Geriatrics Team for a minimum of 10 hours per week during a semester. Each student completed a modified version of the Interprofessional Perception Scale pre— and post-training. Analysis showed changes in perceptions toward physicians but not physical therapists and no changes in how they thought those disciplines perceived themselves.
Development and Maintenance of an Interdisciplinary Health Care Team
Realizing maximum independence for older persons requires understanding and collaboration among health professionals. Unfortunately, health professionals are often assigned to teams with no thought of preparatory team training. This paper is based on a case study which was an initial test of a conceptual model that depicts how an interdisciplinary health care team develops and maintains itself. It is a study of a 13 year-old interdisciplinary geriatrics team with no external or externally mandated leadership.
The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health
In 2008, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the IOM launched a two-year initiative to respond to the need to assess and transform the nursing profession. The IOM appointed the Committee on the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing, at the IOM, with the purpose of producing a report that would make recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing. Through its deliberations, the committee developed four key messages:
Oral Health Across the Lifespan Learning Module
The new Oral Health Across the Lifespan Module, created and funded by the Oral Health Nursing Education & Practice (OHNEP) program and the National Interprofessional Initiative on Oral Health (NIIOH), is one of a 15 module series produced by the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR).
The module introduces learners to the Healthy People 2020 Oral Health goals and objectives as well as strategies for achieving them.
The module has 5 parts:
Defining IPE, Making the Case for IPE, Core Competencies of IPE
Dr. Babara Brandt delivered this presentation to the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers on November 11, 2014.
Middle Cerebral Artery CVA Speech Language Path
Nursing and Speech IPEC simulation scenario published on the California Simulation Alliance (CSA) online library of peer reviewed, validated and tested simulation scenarios. This simulation was submitted in June 2014, and accepted for publication in August 2014.
Development of Interprofessional Education Curriculum
This poster was presented at the Sigma Theta Tau International Society-Zeta Eta-at-Large Fall Fling. It presents the findings from the IPE pilot study that took place between California State University, Sacramento Nursing and Speech Language Pathology students.
What's New in the Resource Exchange and Online Community?
Recent design enhancements aid in ease of use of the National Center online community.
Interprofessional Education for Collaboration: Learning How to Improve Health from Interprofessional Models Across the Continuum of Education to Practice: Workshop Summary
Every year, the Global Forum undertakes two workshops whose topics are selected by the more than 55 members of the Forum. It was decided in this first year of the Forum's existence that the workshops should lay the foundation for future work of the Forum and the topic that could best provide this base of understanding was "interprofessional education." The first workshop took place August 29-30, 2012, and the second was on November 29-30, 2012. Both workshops focused on linkages between interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice.