Journal of Interprofessional Education and Practice最新文献

The Covid-19 pandemic caused a disruption in teaching for institutions across the country, particularly for those using simulation-based education. Our team converted a live high-fidelity simulation (HFS) into an online virtual simulation using a storyline and branching pathway approach. The team collaborated with multimedia specialists in video production to create a branching path simulation (BPS), taking interprofessional teams of online students through several decision-making points of a patient's experience in the emergency department (ED). Video vignettes of simulation decision points are incorporated throughout the simulation, with a final outcome eventually emerging. The TeamSTEPPS® Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire (T-TAQ) was administered before and after the online simulation and descriptive data analysis (paired sample t-test) was conducted using SPSS statistical software. A post simulation satisfaction survey was similarly analyzed.

Background

Communication with interdisciplinary team members was impacted during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bedside nurses managed communication challenges with interdisciplinary team members while working under extremely stressful conditions created by a new and unknown infectious disease. This study examined data collected from a pre-existing qualitative study to answer the question: What communication challenges occurred among nurses and interdisciplinary team members during the beginning months of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Methods

A qualitative secondary analysis of an existing dataset was undertaken. The original data were collected using semi-structured interviews conducted with a purposive sample of bedside nurses (n = 17).

Results

Using thematic analysis, five themes related to communication among nurses and the interdisciplinary team emerged: 1) acknowledging PPE as a communication barrier, 2) questioning how to perform nursing tasks along with increasing workload, 3) developing innovative ways to deliver safe care, 4) experiencing frustrations about lack of communication with interdisciplinary team members, and 5) experiencing both support and criticism that affect working relationships.

Conclusions

Challenges associated with communication during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic became opportunities to build policies and procedures to support collaboration within the healthcare team. Support is necessary to prepare team members to collaborate efficiently during crisis situations. Developing a strategic plan to improve communication, lessen nurse burden, provide mental health support for nurses, while maintaining safe care are priorities in managing future emergency situations.

Background

Because of its impact on communication, aphasia increases patients’ risk for poor healthcare outcomes. Healthcare teams should be equipped to effectively serve this population.

Purpose

The primary aim was to pilot the effectiveness of an aphasia communication.

partner training program for healthcare students by examining changes in knowledge and behavior. A secondary aim assessed learners' understanding of other healthcare professionals’ roles and responsibilities.

Method

Students in pharmacy, physician assistant, and occupational therapy were randomly assigned to experimental or control groups. The former participated in didactic training with speech-language pathology students and mentored interactions with aphasic patients. Both groups completed pre-/post-training knowledge assessments and participated in semi-structured patient interactions.

Discussion

The clinical IPE experience resulted in statistically significant differences in aphasia knowledge and associated behaviors. Additionally, learners’ understanding of healthcare professions improved.

Conclusions

Clinical IPE experiences are effective at improving clinical communication skills and increasing knowledge of language-impaired populations.

This curricular report describes the development and evaluation of an intervarsity competition entitled the All-Ireland Interprofessional Healthcare Challenge (AIPEC). Students from eight universities across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland take part in this extracurricular event on an annual basis. In this manuscript, we report on the development of the case and on the findings of a student evaluation of the event following the 2022 event using the Assessment of the Interprofessional Team Collaboration Scale for Students (AITCS-II student version). Of the 34 students who participated in AIPEC 2022, responses were obtained from 24 (70.6 % response rate). Student feedback was overwhelmingly positive including positive agreement in all four AITCS-II subscales (partnership, coordination, cooperation and teamworking). Free text comments further endorse the event as a positive, collaborative student learning opportunity. In conclusion, our experience has shown the AIPEC to be a beneficial learning experience for students, with clear benefits in developing clinical knowledge and attitudes towards collaborative practice and teamworking.

Preparing health professionals for educator roles is increasingly critical as healthcare becomes more complex, and learners more diverse. This is especially true with interprofessional education and collaborative practice. Master's of education programs can address the need to ensure educators possess the pedagogical expertise to support pre-licensure and post-graduate learners or provide education to patients and their families. However, programs typically focus on enhancing educators' skills and knowledge in medical or nursing education through the scholarship of teaching and learning thus reinforcing the professional silos often experienced in pre-licensure education. A Master of Education for Health Sciences Education program was developed and designed with an interprofessional perspective to intentionally be inclusive of all health professions. A program evaluation demonstrated the program's many strengths and highlighted areas for improvement. The outcomes of the evaluation and comparison to quality assurance standards for master's programs (Tekian and Taylor, 2017) ⁹ were synthesized into lessons learned and recommendations for others interested in creating a graduate program for health professional educators.