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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Background:At West Virginia University, health professions students participate in a year-long interprofessional education (IPE) program focused on the IPEC competencies. For teamwork, students participate in a “Mistake Room” - a hospital room that intentionally contains medical errors and room hazards. Students first individually determine mistakes present, and then work as a team to more fully identify errors present. The goal is for students to understand the importance of all…
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 10:00 am - 10:30 am CDT
Background/Purpose: Delaware elementary schools are required by the Department of Education to teach thirty hours per grade of health education. Since low health literacy is associated with poorer health outcomes, it is important that these standards be met to minimize poor health outcomes for the youngest healthcare consumers. The aim of the study was to identify trends in elementary health education to appropriately create and begin introducing a new health curriculum designed by…
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 10:00 am - 10:30 am CDT
When a healthcare professional makes a mistake, either real or perceived, what does their inner voice say? For many healthcare professionals, their inner voice can be unhealthy and detrimental to achieving the Quadruple Aim of Healthcare. Without an improved clinical experience on the healthcare professional side, the three other patient-centric aspects will not reach full potential. Most healthcare professionals would find it unconscionable to talk to others the way they talk to themselves…
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 10:00 am - 10:30 am CDT
Patients with respiratory infections frequently present to walk-in clinics and receive precautionary antibiotic prescriptions for illnesses that may actually be viral in origin. Antibiotic overuse and misuse is a recognized problem in the healthcare system, with unnecessary and nonadherent antibiotic use contributing to antibiotic resistance. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed a delayed antibiotic prescribing tool, which may decrease inappropriate…
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 10:00 am - 10:30 am CDT
Background: The Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) Student-Run Health Clinic (SRHC) is an interprofessional student organization, operating since 2011. This poster serves to describe how the SRHC was able to quickly adapt and continue its aim of interprofessional education and community health service for underserved populations during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: The SRHC partnered with a federally qualified health center (FQHC), Neighborhood Family Practice (NFP) to…
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 10:00 am - 10:30 am CDT
Interprofessional education has been focused on student education and competency development to foster effective patient-centered communication between health professionals. However, explicitly including the patient’s and caregiver’s voice as members of the IPE team should be a core component of further IPE learning and competency development. Evidence demonstrates a correlation between effective health professional-patient communication and improved patient health outcomes (Riedl &…
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 10:00 am - 10:30 am CDT
Collaborative practice among interprofessional groups of health care providers is essential to the provision of safe and effective medical care. However, health professions training programs have not traditionally prepared students for interprofessional practice. One challenge in transforming health professions education programs has been a limited number of faculty prepared to teach students in an interprofessional learning environment. Thus, faculty development programs aimed at preparing…
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 10:00 am - 10:30 am CDT
Background: Growing consensus among healthcare professionals supports the need for interprofessional collaboration and communication to support patient safety, patient and provider satisfaction, health outcomes, and reduce costs. At the University of South Florida, College of Nursing, interprofessionalism is integrated into the curriculum. One undergraduate leadership course focusing on interprofessional roles and collaboration was reimagined during the pandemic to meet required…
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 10:00 am - 10:30 am CDT
Background: This study aims to inform researchers and educators about perspectives on the ID of activities and their effectiveness in achieving shared competencies. Methodology: This exploratory pilot study included 10 participants selected through a Texas-based IPE consortium. The study's aim is to examine how interprofessional learning activities ae developed. Results:  Over half of IPE activities are supported through program-based IPE initiatives, while 40% utilize…
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 10:00 am - 10:30 am CDT
Interprofessional collaborative practice between multidisciplinary team members is difficult to achieve for many reasons, including scheduling demands, high workloads, physically distant workspaces, and lack of opportunity for face-to-face interactions between team members. Overlapping practice capabilities, differences in treatment paradigms, perceived power differentials, and misunderstanding about team members' roles may potentially lead to role ambiguity and role conflict between team…
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 10:00 am - 10:30 am CDT
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