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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
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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 …