Nexus Summit Student Posters

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BackgroundFRESH Fairfax is a collaboration between residents of the Fairfax neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, CWRU graduate students (medicine, social work, nutrition, and dental), and Cleveland Clinic (CCF) to address community-identified health disparities. The long-term goals of this initiative are to improve neighborhood health outcomes and to maintain a strong relationship between health institutions and Fairfax residents through interprofessional student-led work. To work towards…
Background: In light of the response to the ongoing pandemic, 2019-nCoV, our interprofessional student team developed a multi-disciplinary plan to analyze and address best practices in client-centered care after evaluating failed performance indicators across education, public health, infrastructure, and mental health. While hindsight is 20/20, we reference highlighted research to develop a pandemic playbook. This playbook emphasizes measures that we recommend be taken in order to…
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread through South Carolina, a need for widespread testing sites emerged. This collaborative project brought together an interprofessional cohort of students and professors from Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) to develop criteria for COVID-19 testing sites based on greatest need. The goals of this project were to identify important demographic, geographic, and site level criteria for both drive-thru and walk-up COVID-19…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Students in younger generations tend to have a negative impression of older adults but are likely to be working with this population in the future if pursuing a healthcare-based career. Opportunities to develop relationships between the two populations improve the quality of interactions for all involved (Branscum & Sciaraffa, 2013; Seaman et al., 2017). An interprofessional seminar course, offered through the St.Catherine University Antonian Scholars Honors program, was designed to…
Background:Interprofessional Education (IPE) has been established as an effective implementation for Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) students to understand the roles of other healthcare providers, foster professional identity, and develop competency in providing care within a model of interprofessional collaboration. Since the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been numerous issues preventing proper communication between healthcare professionals. This research aims to…
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