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Student Perspectives On Working In Interdisciplinary Teams To Implement Mhealth, Elina Chun
Student Perspectives On Working In Interdisciplinary Teams To Implement Mhealth, Elina Chun
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Interprofessional education of students in healthcare professions can lead to positive outcomes for students that are unique in a university setting. The purpose of this thesis is to describe benefits and challenges students encounter when working with students of other majors. This study used a convenience sample of students working on a university project to implement mHealth. Participants responded to two surveys with quantitative and qualitative questions. Students reported greater appreciation for diversity, the necessity of communication skills, and self-awareness of their own responsibilities in a team.
Comparing Interprofessional Socialization In Mixed Discipline And Nursing Student Only Cohorts, Kara Groom
Comparing Interprofessional Socialization In Mixed Discipline And Nursing Student Only Cohorts, Kara Groom
Dissertations (1934 -)
A main cause of patient safety incidents are avoidable failures in communication between health professionals. In response, healthcare has entered an era of interprofessionalism in education and patient care. A challenge to substantiating the value of interprofessional education (IPE) has been a limited number of studies that assess the effectiveness of IPE interventions compared to education interventions in which professions were learning separately from one another. This research project helps fill this gap and measures the differences in student interprofessional socialization (IS) between an IPE cohort and a usual care group of one-discipline learners. The purpose was to compare IS …