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Dorrie Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN

University of Virginia School of Nursing

U 21 Health Sciences Meeting

Seoul, Korea

September 28, 2011

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What IS Interprofessional

Collaborative Practice and

Interprofessional Teamwork?

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How does interprofessional collaboration

happen ?

S In some situations (ICU, operating room), an explicit structured interprofessional approach is necessary.

S In others, health professionals may come together once or twice around a specific patient or clinical issue and then return to their independent work

S Collaboration often occurs spontaneously at the bedside

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What IS InterProfessional

Education (IPE)?

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Putting it All Together,

the WHO Framework 2010

Interprofessional Education at UVA

The UVA Interprofessional Education Initiative (IPEI)

Collaboration with the schools of:

Medicine

Education

Chaplaincy Residents

Architecture

Business

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Interprofessional Education at the University of Virginia

The UVA Interprofessional Education Initiative (IPEI)

Vision To improve the quality of patient care through the development and adoption of effective methods of interprofessional education and practice.

Mission To establish interprofessional educational experiences and assess their effectiveness in developing competencies required for interprofessional practice.

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Diversity in the context of IPEI “…..Recognize and respect diversity

of other health and social care roles,

responsibilities and

competencies…..”

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Diversity in the Context of IPEI

S Primary Partners

S Medicine Nutrition

S Nursing Physical Therapy

S Social Work Rehabilitation

S Public Health Pharmacy

S Respiratory Therapy Occupational Therapy

S Secondary Partners

S Business Engineering

S Law Education

S Technologies/Informatics

UVA IPEI core competencies

S Communication

S Professionalism

S Shared Problem Solving

S Shared Decision Making

S Conflict Resolution

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IPE Grant from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

Develop, integrate, and assess the impact of 4 IPE experiences during the clinical year of third-year medical and nursing students

Difficult conversations at the end of life

Rapid response to sepsis in an adult

Management of a chronic progressive illness in a child

Discharge to home of a cognitively impaired elderly patient

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Difficult Conversations

Simulation

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Days of Resiliency

Featheridge Retreat Center

Nursing, Education and Chaplain Resident

Introduction to MBSR and other forms of self care, including yoga, body scans and breathing techniques.

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Interprofessional opportunities for students

RAM

S Remote Area Medicine (RAM)

Venipuncture/ Central line maintenance

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Clinical Connections Day: Witnessing Suffering

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UVA

Interprofessional Education Initiative

(IPEI)