AHRQ TeamSTEPPS® National Conference
The 2014 TeamSTEPPS National Conference will take place June 11-12 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Conference registration is free, however attendees are responsible for expenses associated with their travel (i.e., airfare, hotel, meals). The conference will highlight program models, practical solutions, knowledge, skills, tools and connections to help participants impact their organizations through the TeamSTEPPS model.
The use of videoconferencing to enhance interprofessional clinical education for allied health students
The Health-e-Learning project investigated the use of videoconferencing to deliver interprofessional clinical education to allied health students. Via a broadband link, students observed DVD footage of a clinical session then participated in discussion with the clinicians at the Royal Children's Hospital (RCH), Melbourne. The videoconference sessions were evaluated with respect to session content, the effectiveness of videoconferencing in providing interprofessional education (IPE) and the satisfaction with this as a supplement to facility-based placements.
Construct validation of the readiness for interprofessional learning scale: a Rasch and factor analysis
In order to improve efficiency and collaboration in healthcare service provision, it is recommended that students engage in interprofessional education; that is, learning with, from and about professions other than one's own profession. Such endeavors are often impeded by pre-existing attitudes; therefore, self-reporting scales such as the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) have often been used in studies to gauge perspectives. The original 19-item version of the RIPLS was completed by 418 undergraduate healthcare students from a large Australian University.
Does time matter? Exploring the relationship between interdependent teamwork and time allocation in Swedish interprofessional teams
This paper explores the relationship between time allocation on formal and informal forms of contact within interprofessional teams and an interdependent collaboration. Data were collected by a questionnaire including items on work organization, team climate and time allocation that was responded to by 226 professionals from 44 interprofessional teams. An additional sample of 139 professionals from 18 teams responded to the same questionnaire except for the item on time allocation. The teams worked within occupational health care, psychiatry, rehabilitation and school health care.