o The purpose of this presentation is to share an innovative modifiable educational method developed for interprofessional learning applicable to healthcare students and healthcare professionals alike. This method of education incorporates simulation and technology and can be used for both live and synchronous distance accessible education.
To address an identified learning need while also incorporating interprofessional education for healthcare students an educational platform was developed to assist learners to understand how to implement successful change in a complex healthcare environment. Our interprofessional team built a screen-based change management simulation to engage a collaborative, multidisciplinary team using available interactive software. The simulation's framework employed a behavioral health case study within a hospital emergency department and incorporated a modified version of Kotter's model of change to inform student decision-making.
This initiative focuses on interprofessional collaboration and components of the quadruple aim and can be applied to multiple healthcare professions in academic and professional arenas. Learners work together as a team to interview and select a strategic healthcare-affiliated interprofessional change team. Students then determine best use of allotted expenditures and develop a timeline to accomplish change to meet the needs of a vulnerable population requiring improvement in the quality and safety of care provided in the hospital environment.
It is essential that healthcare professionals in training understand and appreciate multiple professional roles crucial to patient care delivery in a healthcare system. Synergistic interprofessional teamwork is necessary to achieve quality patient outcomes. Introducing students of healthcare disciplines to interprofessional team-building activities is important to foster and prepare them to work seamlessly together in the future.
The use of this simulation reduces passive learning, cultivates problem-solving skills, establishes a novel method of active learning, and has an impact on educational efforts for student learners as well as practicing providers positively influencing future healthcare.
In support of improving patient care, this activity is planned and implemented by The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Office of Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (OICPD). The OICPD is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Provider, the OICPD is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The OICPD maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Physicians: The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education designates this live activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Nurses: Participants will be awarded contact hours of credit for attendance at this workshop.
Nurse Practitioners: The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians: This activity is approved for contact hours.
Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
IPCE: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change
