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Download Entire Issue: Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education And Evaluation (Jcipe), Volume 8, Number 1, 2017 May 2017

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Near Miss Root Cause Analysis Reflection, Alicia Muratore May 2017

Near Miss Root Cause Analysis Reflection, Alicia Muratore

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

As a medical student, my education has largely been divided into two different schools of teaching: didactic classroom instruction and hands-on apprenticeship. The balance between these two components has shifted towards the latter as I have progressed in my education. For example, we first learn about the anatomy and physiology of the heart, then progress to learn about the textbook presentation and patho-physiology as well as treatments of processes such as congestive heart failure. Then as upper years we encounter patients who are faced with these conditions and are tasked with using our knowledge base to provide appropriate care and …


Impact Of An Interprofessional Leadership Program On Collaboration In Practice, Julie Vincent, Dnp, Rn, Cenp, Diane Andrews, Phd, Rn, Lt. General (Ret.) Mark Hertling, Sandra Galura, Phd, Rn, Loretta Forlaw, Phd, Rn May 2017

Impact Of An Interprofessional Leadership Program On Collaboration In Practice, Julie Vincent, Dnp, Rn, Cenp, Diane Andrews, Phd, Rn, Lt. General (Ret.) Mark Hertling, Sandra Galura, Phd, Rn, Loretta Forlaw, Phd, Rn

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

Purpose

The purpose of this project was to improve attitudes towards collaboration between nurse and physician leaders and to describe the changes in attitudes and behaviors following completion of an interprofessional education (IPE) leadership development program.

Significance

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) 1999 study, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, demonstrated that poor collaboration among clinicians can contribute to negative patient outcomes and further outlined that traditional methods of learning in healthcare result in nurses and physicians becoming isolated from one another and thus unprepared to work collaboratively (Delunas & Rouse, 2014). The nurse-physician (RN-MD) …


Enhancing Services To Homeless Populations Through An Interprofessional Virtual World Simulation, Susan Toth-Cohen, Anne C. Smith, M.Ed. May 2017

Enhancing Services To Homeless Populations Through An Interprofessional Virtual World Simulation, Susan Toth-Cohen, Anne C. Smith, M.Ed.

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

Simulations are increasingly implemented as core teaching strategies in healthcare education. Along with the growth and proliferation of many forms of simulation, new venues for implementation also have emerged, including virtual world (VW) role play simulations (Jarmon, Traphagan, Mayrath, & Trevedi, 2009; Rogers, 2010; Walker & Rockinson-Szapkiw, 2009). These VW simulations enable interprofessional teams of students to learn and test their knowledge and skills in real time, within settings that can model a wide range of institutional and community practice environments.

VW simulations provide many of the same benefits that have been described in campus-based simulations, such as practice within …


Caregiver Evaluation Of A Palliative Care Consultation Team Using The Jefferson Teamwork Observation Guide (Jtog) By Caregivers Of Severely Ill Patients, John Liantonio, Md, Beth Wagner, Crnp, Kristine Swartz Md, Molly Hanson, Crnp, Kathleen Mechler, Md, Brooke Worster, Md, Carol Brown, Susan Parks Md May 2017

Caregiver Evaluation Of A Palliative Care Consultation Team Using The Jefferson Teamwork Observation Guide (Jtog) By Caregivers Of Severely Ill Patients, John Liantonio, Md, Beth Wagner, Crnp, Kristine Swartz Md, Molly Hanson, Crnp, Kathleen Mechler, Md, Brooke Worster, Md, Carol Brown, Susan Parks Md

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

Background:

Palliative care teams strive to improve the quality of life of patients and their families who are faced with life threatening illnesses by addressing the physical, psychosocial and spiritual aspects of their care (World HealthOrganization, 2017). The palliative care team is an interprofessional team made up of physicians, nurses, social workers and chaplains and often partners with many other disciplines. Palliative care has been shown to increase quality of life in patients with cancer and help improve communication amongst patients, their families and their care teams (Temel, 2010; Seow, 2008). Additionally, many studies have sought to prove the effectiveness …


From The Editors May 2017

From The Editors

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

This spring marks an exciting time for JCIPE as we prepare to celebrate our 10th anniversary as a center for interprofessional education. Ten years ago, students across our six colleges rarely interacted; IPE was a fairly new and often misunderstood term on campus. Now, a decade later, Jefferson has embraced a culture where IPE and collaborative practice are expected, welcomed and increasingly integrated across the learning continuum, from first year students to seasoned providers. This spring, we graduated our ninth cohort of Jefferson Health Mentors Program students, developed three new advanced IPE electives, compiled a comprehensive inventory of IPE …


Download Entire Issue: Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education And Evaluation (Jcipe), Volume 7, Number 2, 2016 Jan 2017

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Articles in this issue include:

Interprofessional Peer Teaching: Physical Therapy Students Teaching Dental Students to Transfer Patients


The Development of the Interprofessional Leadership Institute for Mental Health Equity


Teaching Interprofessional Practice Skills by “Saving Humanity”: An Innovative IPE Curricular Method Using a Cooperative Strategy Board Game


Reflections from the Bedsides of Dying Patients




Reflections From The Bedsides Of Dying Patients, Hannah Decleene, Patrick Kukulich Jan 2017

Reflections From The Bedsides Of Dying Patients, Hannah Decleene, Patrick Kukulich

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

I walked into a room with its lights glaring and television blaring, a room where a man I had never met before would take his final breath two hours later. The attending nurse kindly dimmed the lights and turned off the television. I sat down next to him. I felt panic. I felt sadness, and I felt peace. This individual would have passed without me knowing, yet I was there with him; he wouldn’t be alone.

The No One Dies Alone (NODA) chapter at Jefferson launched in May, 2016. It launched as a vision in which students of Thomas Jefferson …


Teaching Interprofessional Practice Skills By "Saving Humanity": An Innovative Ipe Curricular Method Using A Cooperative Strategy Board Game, Emily Mccave, Phd, Msw, Lmsw Jan 2017

Teaching Interprofessional Practice Skills By "Saving Humanity": An Innovative Ipe Curricular Method Using A Cooperative Strategy Board Game, Emily Mccave, Phd, Msw, Lmsw

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

Statement of Issue

Increasingly, team-based interprofessional (IP) collaboration is the central model of practice for health disciplines (Khalili, Orchard, Laschinger, & Farah, 2013). Yet traditional education models can foster a uniprofessional identity that leads to “turf protection” and subsequent resistance to IP collaboration (Bronstein, 2003, p. 448). Interprofessional education (IPE) models, however, are designed to promote team competency and an IP identity (Lindgard, 2013). IPE activities often focus on building student competency in four core areas: efficient and effective teamwork, effective communication, understanding of professional roles, and shared values (Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC), 2016). Innovative IPE activities provide students with …


The Development Of The Interprofessional Leadership Institute For Mental Health Equity, Cheryl L. Woods-Giscombe, Phd, Rn, Pmhnp Jan 2017

The Development Of The Interprofessional Leadership Institute For Mental Health Equity, Cheryl L. Woods-Giscombe, Phd, Rn, Pmhnp

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

Abstract

The Interprofessional Leadership Institute for Mental Health Equity is being developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to reduce mental health disparities by (1) engaging students in interprofessional service learning and research activities, (2) promoting integration of community-based strategies and social determinants of mental health conditions among underserved and vulnerable groups as required curricular components, (3) enhancing workforce diversity (in partnership with Racial/Ethnic Minority-Serving Colleges/Universities) by supporting students to obtain professional careers in mental health care, mental health policy, and mental health leadership, and (4) supporting current mental health providers, educators, and researchers who are working …


Interprofessional Peer Teaching: Physical Therapy Students Teaching Dental Students To Transfer Patients, Kim Dunleavy, Pt, Phd, Ocs, Venita Sposetti, Dmd Jan 2017

Interprofessional Peer Teaching: Physical Therapy Students Teaching Dental Students To Transfer Patients, Kim Dunleavy, Pt, Phd, Ocs, Venita Sposetti, Dmd

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

Background While the need for interprofessional education (IPE) has been clearly elucidated, (Interprofessional Education Collaborative, 2016), one of the major barriers is the logistical challenge of meeting curricular requirements for all involved. The organization and time required in an already full schedule are often deterrents. Ideal opportunities meet specific program curricular requirements as well as enhancing interprofessional competencies. Interprofessional competencies include developing skills to teach other health care providers about profession-specific skills and enhancing communication across the professions (Bridges, 2011; Interprofessional Education Collaborative, 2016). Active learning techniques have been advocated for adult learners to promote motivation and engagement (Knowles, 1984), …


From The Editors, Christine A. Arenson, Md, Lauren Collins Md, Shoshana Sicks, Med Jan 2017

From The Editors, Christine A. Arenson, Md, Lauren Collins Md, Shoshana Sicks, Med

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

Here at JCIPE, another semester has flown by. And again, the Center has been busy expanding and integrating our programs on campus and beyond. This fall, as we welcomed our tenth cohort into the Jefferson Health Mentors Program, we introduced a revised curriculum which is more heavily focused on the social determinants of health and integrates the Social Ecological Model. We also added an eighth profession, Medical Laboratory Sciences, to the mix, expanding our total student enrollment to more than 1400 students! Building on this foundation, this fall we also expanded our more advanced interprofessional TeamSTEPPS® training program. During the …


Download Entire Issue- Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education, And Evaluation (Jcipe), Spring 2016, Volume 7, Issue 1 Jun 2016

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

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Interprofessional Practice Increasingly Influences Jefferson Students' University Selection Jun 2016

Interprofessional Practice Increasingly Influences Jefferson Students' University Selection

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

• Data supplied by the Office of Institutional Research and drawn from its New Student Survey question “Please identify why you selected Thomas Jefferson University over other institutions.”

• Students given 29 options and asked to select the top three (3) reasons that influenced their decision.

• Five items are generally cited as major reasons that students select Jefferson, including academic reputation, quality of faculty, campus location, affiliation with Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and clinical opportunities available.

• Despite the above consistent (and expected/desired) reasons and the change in question format to require students to select only their top three …


Jcipe And The Jefferson Digital Commons, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi Jun 2016

Jcipe And The Jefferson Digital Commons, Daniel G. Kipnis, Msi

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

In June 2014, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education Review Board re-accredited Thomas Jefferson University and in their report they made sure to highlight the exemplar work being done by the Jefferson Center for InterProfessional Education (JCIPE). JCIPE, founded in 2007, was commended by the accreditation committee for its work during the committee’s most recent visit to Philadelphia in June 2014.

To help foster the mission of JCIPE, the Jefferson Digital Commons has partnered to archive the JCIPE eNewsletter. Archiving the newsletter has allowed JCIPE to continue promoting their mission to an international community and has allowed the international …


A Community College Interprofessional Nurse Managed Center Practice Model, Donna Meyer, Msn, Rn, Anef Jun 2016

A Community College Interprofessional Nurse Managed Center Practice Model, Donna Meyer, Msn, Rn, Anef

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

Lewis and Clark Community College (L&C) has initiated an innovative interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) model at its Family Health Clinic (FHC), a nurse managed center, located at the main campus in Godfrey, Illinois. The FHC previously operated successfully for seven years, and has exceeded the projected impact with the numbers of individuals served in the community. The project is innovative and distinctive in providing an IPCP model in that it is inter-institutional, with several of the participating practitioners from institutions other than L&C. The core leadership of the model remains with the nursing professionals at the FHC. It is important …


From Interprofessional Education To Collaborative Practice: A Jefferson Alumna's Perspective, Chelsea (Gorman) Lytle, Bsn, Rn Jun 2016

From Interprofessional Education To Collaborative Practice: A Jefferson Alumna's Perspective, Chelsea (Gorman) Lytle, Bsn, Rn

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

I graduated from Jefferson College of Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University in May 2015 and began my work as a perioperative nurse the following July. During my time at Jefferson, I not only participated in the Health Mentors Program (HMP), but was also given the opportunity to work closely with JCIPE and a group of students from other health care professions to refine and expand IPE offerings. We formed a student organization, now known as Jefferson Students for Interprofessional Education (JSIPE), which had three over-arching goals:

1. Students will gain exposure to real-world collaborative practice teams

2. Students will learn …


Leveraging Online Learning And Creative Narrative To Advance Interprofessional Competency Development, Karen T. Pardue, Phd, Rn, Cne, Anef, Shelley Cohen Konrad, Phd, Lcsw, Fnap Jun 2016

Leveraging Online Learning And Creative Narrative To Advance Interprofessional Competency Development, Karen T. Pardue, Phd, Rn, Cne, Anef, Shelley Cohen Konrad, Phd, Lcsw, Fnap

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

The need for health profession students to engage in collaborative interprofessional education (IPE) is abundantly evident. In contemporary practice, creating clinical environments which promote healing relies not just on the dispositions of individual clinicians, but also on the collective capacities of interprofessional healthcare teams (Konrad & Browning, 2012). Health profession educators are therefore increasingly challenged to: 1. design robust pedagogical curricula that prepare students with discipline-specific competencies to care for future patients; 2. offer shared learning experiences in which students develop interprofessional, team-based capacities grounded in intentional and respectful collaboration; and 3. cultivate an interprofessional culture amongst faculty that models …


A Community College's Foray Into Interprofessional Education, Judith Blum, Ms, Otr/L, Mary Kay Demarco, Phd, Rn, Cne Jun 2016

A Community College's Foray Into Interprofessional Education, Judith Blum, Ms, Otr/L, Mary Kay Demarco, Phd, Rn, Cne

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

As initiatives and innovations in interprofessional education (IPE) continue to flourish in university settings, there is limited evidence this is occurring in two-year allied health and nursing programs found in community colleges. Recent literature indicates that graduates of associate degree allied health and nursing programs account for 49% of the total healthcare workforce (Brookings Institute, 2014). Graduates of these programs will work among those coming from university programs where IPE has been well established, therefore, it is imperative that this content be addressed at the community college. To meet this need, the Community College of Baltimore County’s (CCBC) School of …


From The Editors, Christine Arenson, Md, Elizabeth T. Speakman, Edd, Rn, Anef, Fnap, Lauren Collins, Md, Shoshana Sicks, Edm Jun 2016

From The Editors, Christine Arenson, Md, Elizabeth T. Speakman, Edd, Rn, Anef, Fnap, Lauren Collins, Md, Shoshana Sicks, Edm

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

Happy Spring! You will notice that the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Education (JCIPE) newsletter has undergone a name and layout change. This represents the many new directions our Center is taking in both interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice (CP) training. Indeed, JCIPE has had another busy spring. We started the new year by piloting the patient version of the Jefferson Teamwork Observation Guide (JTOG) in the inpatient setting, expanding an outpatient pilot that started last fall. Thanks to many research assistants, we have been able to gather some rich and informative data and this summer we hope to have …


Download Entire Issue- Jefferson Interprofessional Education And Care Newsletter, Fall 2015, Volume 6, Issue 2 Dec 2015

Download Entire Issue- Jefferson Interprofessional Education And Care Newsletter, Fall 2015, Volume 6, Issue 2

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An Online Approach To Interprofessional Education, E. Adel Herge, Otd, Otr/L, Faota, Amber E. King, Pharmd, Bcps Dec 2015

An Online Approach To Interprofessional Education, E. Adel Herge, Otd, Otr/L, Faota, Amber E. King, Pharmd, Bcps

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

Despite increasing interest in providing interprofessional education (IPE) opportunities for health profession students, the logistics of scheduling and integrating diverse curriculums remain challenging. Several models to address these potential barriers have been proposed and utilized (Blue et al, 2010). Faculty from three colleges within Thomas Jefferson University developed an asynchronous online interprofessional course as one solution to overcome logistical barriers to IPE.

Interprofessional Grand Rounds is offered to third year pharmacy students and second year occupational therapy (OT) students in the fall semester. The course utilizes a variety of learning activities to evaluate the influence of current public health and …


Examining Health Mentors’ Perceptions Of Student Teamwork, Deirdre Yarosh, Bs, Ma, Pharmd Student, Elena M. Umland, Pharmd Dec 2015

Examining Health Mentors’ Perceptions Of Student Teamwork, Deirdre Yarosh, Bs, Ma, Pharmd Student, Elena M. Umland, Pharmd

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

Statement of Issue:

With the increasing emphasis on interprofessional teamwork in healthcare, the need to train future health care professionals to work together as a functional team to provide patient-centered care is clear. Limited information exists regarding education of health care students and teamwork training.1,2 This research evaluates student team performance.

Background:

Thomas Jefferson University (TJU) offers a unique, two-year program emphasizing delivery of patient-centered care and providing valuable skill development by pairing interprofessional student teams with a Health Mentor (HM). The HM is an adult community volunteer with one or more chronic health condition(s). Student teams include representatives from …


In Addition To Checking Out A Book, You Can Check Out Your Health Too: A New Partnership Between Jefferson College Of Nursing And The Philadelphia Free Public Library, Kathryn Shaffer, Edd, Rn, Msn, Cne Dec 2015

In Addition To Checking Out A Book, You Can Check Out Your Health Too: A New Partnership Between Jefferson College Of Nursing And The Philadelphia Free Public Library, Kathryn Shaffer, Edd, Rn, Msn, Cne

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

At Jefferson Health is all we do, but at Jefferson College of Nursing (JCN), Health is H.E.R.E (humanistic, evidenced-based, reflective, excellence in clinical leaders). With a redesign of the undergraduate nursing curriculum, Jefferson College of Nursing (JCN) has transformed the way nurses of the 22nd century will practice, with a focus on caring for patients in all areas of the care continuum. The newly designed curriculum centers around four themes that are threaded throughout, Innovation, Practice Excellence, Interprofessional Collaboration, and Population Health. JCN believes that patients are partners in their health and that care is a collaborative effort.

To model …


From The Editors, Elizabeth Speakman, Edd, Rn, Anef, Fnap, Christine Arenson, Md, Lauren Collins, Md, Shoshana Sicks, Edm Dec 2015

From The Editors, Elizabeth Speakman, Edd, Rn, Anef, Fnap, Christine Arenson, Md, Lauren Collins, Md, Shoshana Sicks, Edm

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

This fall has seen a flurry of activity at the Jefferson Center for InterProfessional Education (JCIPE). In September, Lauren Collins, MD, Associate Director of JCIPE, was selected as one of five recipients of the prestigious Macy Faculty Scholars (MFS) program, a two-year career development award supported by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. She now joins a national network of other MFS recipients in helping to re-envision training of health professions students and delivery of collaborative care. Elizabeth Speakman, EdD, RN, ANEF, FNAP, JCIPE Co-Director, completed her three-year Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellowship and was recently selected to attend the …


Download Entire Issue- Jefferson Interprofessional Education And Care Newsletter, Spring 2015, Volume 6, Issue 1 Jun 2015

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Ipe Grand Rounds Learning Activity, Adrienne Christopher Jun 2015

Ipe Grand Rounds Learning Activity, Adrienne Christopher

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

I attended the IPE Grand Rounds hosted by Jefferson Students for Interprofessional Education (JSIPE) with the Palliative Care Team. There were several different health care professionals present on the panel that explained their specific and individualized roles within the Palliative Care team, as well how these roles united to help them function best as a group. The panel demonstrated these specific roles with a case presentation that also helped illustrate some of the conflicts they face on a daily basis, and how they overcome these conflicts to best serve their patients.


Teamstepps® Interprofessional Learning Activity, Brady Mcguire Jun 2015

Teamstepps® Interprofessional Learning Activity, Brady Mcguire

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

In October 2014 I participated in a TeamSTEPPS® interprofessional (IP) learning activity that has already positively affected my performance in my first clinical field-work rotation. An IP team of professors from the nursing, occupational therapy, medicine, and pharmacy programs hosted the learning activity. Potential difficulty of cross-disciplinary interaction was noted from the beginning as students from each discipline sat in groups despite encouragement to split up. However, with direction from the professors, we formed small interdisciplinary groups and participated in a teamwork-focused icebreaker followed by a lecture about the origins and techniques of the TeamSTEPPS® system. After the lecture we …


Interprofessional Student Hotspotting Project, Mariana R. Kuperman, Mph, Brooke Salzman, Md, Mary Bonnet, David Goldstein, Anna Marie Morlino, Florda Priftanji, Jennifer Shoemake Jun 2015

Interprofessional Student Hotspotting Project, Mariana R. Kuperman, Mph, Brooke Salzman, Md, Mary Bonnet, David Goldstein, Anna Marie Morlino, Florda Priftanji, Jennifer Shoemake

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

Background: IPE and Practice-based Learning

It is well established that there is a need for Interprofessional Education (IPE) in the current landscape of health education1 and students that participate in IPE enjoy these experiences and develop skills in interprofessional teamwork that prepare them for future team-based practice.2,3,4 IPE, however, is not standardized. It ranges from programs that teach theoretical frameworks in a classroom setting to others that allow interprofessional teams of students to work together in a clinical setting.5,6 The second form is referred to as practice-based learning (PrBL).3 PrBL is now considered by experts as one of the most …


Development Of A Cultural And Spiritual Toolbox: A High Impact Interprofessional Project, Marian Nowak, Dnp, Mph, Rn, Fcn Jun 2015

Development Of A Cultural And Spiritual Toolbox: A High Impact Interprofessional Project, Marian Nowak, Dnp, Mph, Rn, Fcn

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

Healthcare providers may not be prepared to incorporate cultural and spiritual aspects of patient care within their practice. The cultural and spiritual toolbox project will increase the opportunity for those working in a local three campus hospital system to deliver patient-centered care at the bedside by helping them recognize the nuances of various cultures and religions. An interprofessional team convened over a one year period to explore how these aspects of care could be met.

To this end, the team researched and developed a “Cultural and Spiritual Toolbox” which offers information in an online format. This project will be fully …