The National Center and its Resource Center on nexusipe.org host a wide variety of tools, training and resources for IPE educators, students and practitioners across the country. National Center staff will be on-hand to answer resource questions and share information on future education and training offerings. Come by and say hello!

Are you interested in belonging to a membership organization that is specifically dedicated to interprofessional practice and education? Would you like to belong to a community of interprofessional colleagues that are committed to advancing the field? The American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) is a member organization of the National Center that can provide you with many opportunities... please stop by our booth to learn more!

This Resource Exchange station introduces two short, online education modules focused on IPE and quality improvement, and their accompanying faculty guides. These guides provide faculty an overview of the key concepts and offer additional learning activities and discussion prompts that enhance and support the educational concepts covered in the module.

Professionals Accelerating Clinical and Educational Redesign (PACER) is a 3-year project bringing together an interprofessional team of faculty to work together on clinical and educational transformation. PACER is enabling leaders from the primary care professions to cross boundaries to collaboratively redesign their training programs and enhance IP collaborative practice.

Learn about the national T3 Program (@T3Programs, #T3Programs), an immersive leadership training program for interprofessional (IP) teams wanting to design and implement IP projects at their institutions. Meet facilitators, discuss project ideas, get connected with T3 alumni, and learn about how the T3 Program can help your team or organization.

Learn best practices to increase curricular involvement from partners and program participants. Apply strategies to improve programmatic infrastructure and enhance student engagement in interprofessional education programs. By incorporating a student-driven curricular approach, interprofessional education will continue to evolve to meet the needs of future healthcare leaders.

This exchange station will present several interprofessional collaboration assessment rubrics currently used in undergraduate IPE settings. Participants will have an opportunity to review sample assignments and to contribute to an assessment database by completing rubrics at the station which will deepen understanding of the validity and reliability of these tools.

This presentation will describe the evolution of a participatory service model within a pro-bono student-run PT clinic for the delivery of care, depicting how curriculum design and established administrative policies supported and created a basis for an inter-professional education forum that opened the doors for collaborative practice.

The Midwest Interprofessional Practice, Education, and Research Center (MIPERC) has been highly successful in infusing interprofessional education and collaborative practice across disciplines, learning institutions, and clinical settings. The Director of the Interprofessional Education Office will share information about these initiatives and lessons learned in their IPE journey.

The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE) provides a forum for organizations committed to improving the educational experience and patient care outcomes within clinical learning environments. NCICLE seeks to simultaneously improve the quality of learning and patient care within CLEs through shared learning and collaborative practice .

This project describes the results of 120 Interprofessional Student Teams’ engagements with Community Health Volunteers with chronic conditions to explore social determinants of health, community assets and needs, and to develop a Community Advocacy Proposal. Participants can review the student instructions and worksheets, team examples, and lessons learned.

This interactive exchange station provides resources for development of a multi-program interprofessional simulation to promote student engagement, learning, and development of interprofessional collaboration/communication skills. Creating the opportunity to learn with, from, and about each other while applying TeamSTEPPS tools to an emergency scenario allows experiential learning within an interprofessional-collaborative framework.

Creighton University has a variety of resources that can assist in helping other IPE programs who need to grow and develop their programming.

IPE sessions will be introduced between Pharmacy and Kinesiology students guided by faculty teaching the module of osteoarthritis/rheumatoid arthritis and acute/chronic pain. Another session will be introduced for the management of addiction by partners in Pharmacy and Criminal Justice who covered in the modules of addiction management and opioid analgesics.

 

The NAO represents a network of more than 300 AHEC program offices and centers across the country. Hosted at health profession institutions, AHEC’s recruit, train, and support a diverse health work force for underserved communities. Come learn how the new AHEC Scholars program is ready to partner with communities and universities to deliver IPE.

VA leads innovation in interprofessional education of trainees in patient-centered primary care through the VA Centers of Excellence in Primary Care Education. Curriculum resources for interprofessional primary care programs, evaluation products for a large IPE curriculum will be provided. Additional educational resources advancing Veterans health will also be provided.

Through an initiative called IMPACT Practice, the MGH Institute of Health Professions has codified interprofessional learning. Integrating core curricular elements based on IPEC competencies as well as institutional core competencies, the Institute provides opportunities for students and faculty to interact in applying collaborative skills that will benefit patients and clients.

Collaborating Across Borders is North America’s premier interprofessional health care education and collaborative practice conference. CAB VII will take place October 20-23, 2019 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The National Center and its Resource Center on nexusipe.org host a wide variety of tools, training and resources for IPE educators, students and practitioners across the country. National Center staff will be on-hand to answer resource questions and share information on future education and training offerings. Come by and say hello!

Are you interested in belonging to a membership organization that is specifically dedicated to interprofessional practice and education? Would you like to belong to a community of interprofessional colleagues that are committed to advancing the field? The American Interprofessional Health Collaborative (AIHC) is a member organization of the National Center that can provide you with many opportunities... please stop by our booth to learn more!

Attendees will learn what it takes to introduce a course called Behind the Scenes that provides students opportunity to shadow a wide variety work units to learn more about the teamwork and professions needed to run a highly reliable academic health sciences center.

The Department of Allied Health Sciences, School of Medicine, UNC Chapel Hill develops formal Interprofessional Education Program to promote the culture of IPE/IPP and to prepare future allied health professionals for interprofessional teamwork and patient-centered, quality care.

The Interprofessional Healthcare Partnership with Crimson Care Collaborative is a student faculty collaborative practice that has integrated team based care to underserved populations. This session will provide tips and tools to establish or enhance an interprofessional student-faculty practice.

The National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE) provides a forum for organizations committed to improving the educational experience and patient care outcomes within clinical learning environments. NCICLE seeks to simultaneously improve the quality of learning and patient care within CLEs through shared learning and collaborative practice.

This presentation describes an institution-wide approach to delivering interprofessional education that removes barriers and promotes sustainability. Participants can review the Higher Learning Commission quality improvement project proposal, the interprofessional education curricular framework, individual workshops designs, student handouts, and evaluation tools.

Want to learn about engaging faculty and student leaders in planning and implementing the nation’s largest student-led interprofessional emergency response simulation? Nexus Summit participants are invited to join the Texas A&M University Health Science Center in a discussion about intentional IPE for this large-scale event.

An Advanced Nursing Education (ANE) Grant Project team will share what it did to tackle challenges of patient recruitment, student recruitment, efficient data collection, communication across project sites, and filling “down time” for students.

Conditions is one of the 7 C's of Team Science as defined by Eduardo Salas. Explore the opportunities to promote positive environmental conditions for your student and/or health professional teams through the use of a mobile electronic application.

The Center for Health Interprofessional Programs (CHIP) works with student leaders across health professional programs to “connect, learn, serve and lead.” CHIP supports students to do what matters to them outside of the classroom while building interprofessional relationships and competencies. Come to discuss a wide variety of innovative models for interprofessional co-curricular student engagement.

The Interprofessional Evidence-based Clinical Scholar Program (IECSP) brings health care students, faculty and clinicians together to develop and implement evidence-based practice solutions to clinical problems. IECSP resources, including an Agenda Template, Centering Activity, Team Charter, and Dissemination Planning Tool, were developed to support organization, efficiency, and productivity among interprofessional teams.

Student Health Outreach for Wellness Clinic (SHOW) is an interprofessional student-run free clinic that provides healthcare to patients experiencing homelessness. A program was created in collaboration with our interprofessional team which focused on increasing access to medications for our patients while leveraging our diverse team. All materials were compiled in a Medication Tool Box for distributing.

Participants will gain an understanding of the available and emerging educational technologies and their use to address barriers specific to interprofessional education and practice.

Through an initiative called IMPACT Practice, the MGH Institute of Health Professions has codified interprofessional learning. Integrating core curricular elements based on IPEC competencies as well as institutional core competencies, the Institute provides opportunities for students and faculty to interact in applying collaborative skills that will benefit patients and clients.

The NAO represents a network of more than 300 AHEC program offices and centers across the country. Hosted at health profession institutions, AHEC’s recruit, train, and support a diverse health work force for underserved communities. Come learn how the new AHEC Scholars program is ready to partner with communities and universities to deliver IPE.

Collaborating Across Borders is North America’s premier interprofessional health care education and collaborative practice conference. CAB VII will take place October 20-23, 2019 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Project Taking Charge (PTC) uses an innovative patient/family center, inter-professional team-based approach to change community members’ lifestyle and health practices that will improve their health status.