Shane
Spaulding,
MHPE, RRT, RRT-ACCS
Clinical Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
Shane Spaulding is a clinical assistant professor with UM-Flint College of Health Sciences. His research interests include identifying barriers to transitioning respiratory therapies to the outpatient setting, educating respiratory therapy educators, and palliative care for patients with chronic pulmonary lung diseases. As a clinical education coordinator, he works on experiential learning opportunities outside of standard entry-level respiratory therapy education. He is interested in methods for incorporating IPE into respiratory therapy degree advancement education.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
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 & Schüßler, 2017), suggesting that optimal care can be provided by including the patient, and caregiver (when…