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Download Entire Pdf Interprofessional Education And Care Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 2, Winter 2011

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

This issue includes articles on:

Interprofessional Education and Practice Implications of the Institute of Medicine Future of Nursing Report

Using an Interprofessional Clinical Skills Scenario in an Occupational Therapy Course

Column: Evaluation of Interprofessional Education Programs

Column: Developing Health Care Quality and Patient Safety Linchpins through Interprofessional Education

Column: Developing Health Care Quality And Patient Safety Linchpins Through Interprofessional Education, Mary Lou Manning

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

"Every organization needs linchpins…artists, with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done." - Seth Godin, Linchpin, Are You Indispensable? Seth Godin pens provocative books with witty titles such as Unleashing the Ideavirus1 and Tribes.2 His most recent book, Linchpin, Are You Indispensable?3 is about the art of connection, the art of being human and the art of making a huge difference. Health care clinicians, faculty and students are well advised to read his work as they strive to master the art of meaningful interprofessional connections, so that together, they …

Announcements

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Announcements include congratulations to JCIPE's Fall 2010 Interprofessional Education and Care Practicum Pilot Award Recipients, 2011 International Essay Contest on Interprofessionalism and upcoming Faculty and Staff Development Programs.

Column: Evaluation Of Interprofessional Education Programs, Kevin Lyons

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

In this brief space, I would like to provide some general guidelines for those of you who are planning to implement an interprofessional education program, or any program for that matter. I say planning to implement a program, because it is at this stage that you must be thinking about how you are going to evaluate it, not after the program has begun. One of the worst nightmares for any program evaluator is to have someone stop by his or her office with a stack of data and say “Can you tell me what I have here?” When this happens …

Using An Interprofessional Clinical Skills Scenario In An Occupational Therapy Course, E. Adel Herge, Christine Hsieh, Tarae Waddell-Terry, Andrea Mcelroy

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Interprofessional education (IPE) is being adopted increasingly more in the health care education field. The literature cites benefits of interprofessional teamwork such as appreciation for the expertise of other health care practitioners, enhanced communication skills related to teamwork, higher quality patient care and improved patient outcomes.5,6 One of the goals of the Eastern Pennsylvania-Delaware (EPaD) Geriatric Education Center is to create geriatric interprofessional education for medical, nursing and health professions students. The Center developed an Interprofessional Clinical Skills Scenario to facilitate development of communication and collaboration skills. The Interprofessional Clinical Skills Scenario focuses on an older adult who is hospitalized …

Interprofessional Education And Practice Implications Of The Institute Of Medicine Future Of Nursing Report, Mary Lou Manning, Beth Ann Swan

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on October 5, 2010, is the latest in a series of reports that have had a significant impact on creating positive change to improve health care in the United States. The report provides a vision of a future health care system that would make high-quality care accessible to all, promote wellness and disease prevention, reliably improve health outcomes, and provide compassionate care throughout a person’s lifespan. This report, in concert with the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, must act as a catalyst for all …

From The Editors, Christine Arenson, Md, Molly Rose, Rn, Phd

Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)

Welcome to the latest edition of the Jefferson Interprofessional Education and Care Newsletter. We are thrilled to report that participation in interprofessional education (IPE) and collaboration by faculty and staff at Jefferson is escalating. In this issue, Drs. Manning and Swan provide an overview of the recent Institute of Medicine’s Future of Nursing report that reaffirms the importance of interprofessional collaboration in the classroom and clinical education for health care outcomes. Dr. Herge and colleagues describe a Jefferson example of how IPE can successfully be implemented in an existing discipline specific course. A clinical skills scenario (a woman hospitalized with …