The Minnesota Nexus – What’s it about? Why should we care?
Barbara Brandt, PhD, National Center director and associate vice president for education, University of Minnesota Academic Health Center
Next Tuesday, January 7, we will meet for the first time to kick off what we are now calling the “...
This report is inspired by a vision of interprofessional collaborative practice as key to the safe, high quality, accessible, patient-centered care desired by all. Achieving that vision for the future requires the continuous development of interprofessional competencies by health professions...
Testing new models of care and training is key to the transformation of health care through interprofessional practice and education. To that end, eight “pioneer” Nexus Innovations Incubator teams have stepped up to become applied research laboratories for the National Center. The development of...
Huddles are “structured brief (5-15 minutes) routine face-to-face communication of a team’s full members” (Rodriguez et al. 2014). Content covered during huddles typically includes a) pre-visit planning for scheduled patients, b) strategizing care plans for patients with special or complex needs, c...
Over the past decade, there has been increased uptake of the interdisciplinary team model for delivering primary care services. However, so much more could be done.
This final report of the research series Improving Primary Care Through Collaboration provides guidance for optimizing...