Nexus Summit Sessions

The Nexus Summit has more than 200 different sessions available to support your learning. Sessions include plenaries, seminars, lightning talks, professional and student posters. Use the navigation on the left to filter your results by type of session, learning track, speaker, or date and time.

 

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People living with dementia are vulnerable to inequitable care related to ageism and ableism. In the inpatient setting, these patients are at nutritional risk due to high rates of delirium, impaired communication, and dysphagia. Specialized team-based, interprofessional approaches to care can improve nutrition, but many providers and staff are not aware of these. In this talk, we will describe an interprofessional curriculum to address this.Our educational team includes an occupational…
Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
During the 2020-2021 academic year, we offered a new interprofessional course, “Emergency Response Management”. The course was extremely popular: 160 students enrolled in the Fall and 100 in the Spring. As facilitators for the course, we developed numerous group activities that appeared to be relevant and what we hoped would be interesting, motivating, and fun. While students’ on-going evaluations of the activities were positive, it was concerning that the final evaluations highlighted…
Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
The Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative (HPAC), established in 2014, has 25 health professions accreditor members working together to advance interprofessional collaboration. In December 2020, recognizing their important role, HPAC members convened virtually to learn together about the role of accreditation in addressing contemporary issues about diversity, health equity, health disparities, race and inclusion. With permission, the agenda included related video presentations related…
Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Design thinking—a human-centered approach to problem solving—can be instrumental in helping bridge the gap between healthcare education and practice. The framework allows you to explore broader points of view and uncover structural, operational and/or physical roadblocks to rapidly prototype, test and ultimately implement innovative solutions. This Seminar will introduce key concepts of design thinking and their application to finding solutions and opportunities at the intersection of…
Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Achieving health equity demands a fundamental reexamination of the human experience. The humanities and arts offer a useful lens that reveals and informs blind spots in our understanding of health and health equity across diverse populations. The Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative (HHARC) at The University of Kansas (KU) is an innovative model connecting educational institutions with practice settings in co-created academic-community partnerships. Launched in the midst of the…
Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm CDT
Join Barbara Brandt, National Center director, and Denise Rodgers, today’s facilitator, for an open conversation and debrief following today’s Nexus Summit sessions. Informed by today’s plenary, seminars, lightning talks, and Conversation Cafes, bring your questions, reflections and ideas for an informal conversation as we explore the implications of this important work for every day, for research in the field and for future policy considerations. To…
Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm CDT
The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) is launching a review and revision of the Core Competencies, and seeking feedback to improve them to better serve the needs of health professions’ educators and practitioners, students, and the health workforce. During the online meeting, IPEC leaders will provide an overview of the Core…
Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm CDT
An increasing number of national and international imperatives12 identify interprofessional collaborative practice and education transformation as a primary strategy to improve healthcare outcomes, especially among those who experience inequities in their ability to achieve their full health potential. These imperatives often don’t address the practical barriers healthcare teams face in collecting the data needed to understand the…
Thursday, October 7, 2021, 9:45 am - 11:30 am CDT
Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) research has primarily concentrated on classroom, service-learning, and simulated student learning outcomes. Less is known about how IPE impacts future practice and whether and how knowledge gained in controlled academic environments is positively and enduringly transferred to the workforce. Presentation: This lightning talk offers findings from a mixed-methods study aimed at understanding the transfer of IPE knowledge, attitudes, and skills from…
Thursday, October 7, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
Although interprofessional education (IPE) is seen as a prerequisite to collaborative practice that improves health outcomes (World Health Organization, 2010), best practices regarding development, implementation, and assessment of IPE remain elusive. This uncertainty is due, in part, to inconsistencies in reporting within the IPE literature. Determining the effectiveness of a social or behavioral intervention like IPE requires reproducibility, replicability and generalizability of findings…
Thursday, October 7, 2021, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CDT
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