Lightning Talk Description: This presentation will share how a healthcare college from the UK and one from the US collaborated to provide students with a pilot international interprofessional education experience. Using online conference technology, students collaborated on a case study and heard from a patient about her experience with the same diagnosis as the individual in the case study. Healthcare professionals from pharmacy, emergency nursing, home health nursing, and medical imaging shared their perspectives on the case study and facilitated discussions around similarities and differences in American and British healthcare and healthcare education. Lessons learned and plans to improve and expand this pilot IPE session will be shared. Using the pilot session as a template, attendees will be encouraged to consider replicating or adapting the IPE session with their own students.
The presenters will describe their collaboration in designing and facilitating the cross-institutional IPE experience and share evidence of the session’s positive impact on students. Participants represented a variety of healthcare professions including nursing, medicine, pharmacy, dietician, and medical imaging. Student feedback and results of students’ pre- and post-session self-assessments using the SPICE-R2 instrument will be shared.
Effective interprofessional education can improve participant’s knowledge about other professions’ roles and responsibilities on the healthcare team and can enhance confidence and competence in communicating as a professional on the healthcare team (Bell et. al, 2019). Providing students with an international experience supports the development of openness to different ways of learning and care, which can increase tolerance for ambiguity. Increased tolerance for ambiguity is associated with resilience, psychological well-being, and job satisfaction among members of the healthcare team (Eghbali & Najafi,2020; Hancock & Mattick, 2020)
References
Bell, S. K., Langer, T., Luff, D., Rider, E. A., Brandano, J., & Meyer, E. C. (2019). Interprofessional learning to improve communication in challenging healthcare conversations: What clinicians learn from each other. Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 39(3), 201-209.
Eghbali, S., & Najafi, M. (2020). Emergency Nurses Job Satisfaction Prediction Model: Personality traits, Resilience, Emotional Expression and Ambiguity Tolerance. Journal of Molecular Biology Research, 10(1), 1-37.
Hancock, J., & Mattick, K. (2020). Tolerance of ambiguity and psychological well-being in medical training: A systematic review. Medical education, 54(2), 125–137. https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.14031
In support of improving patient care, this activity is planned and implemented by The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Office of Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (National Center OICPD). The National Center OICPD is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Provider, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
The National Center OICPD (JA#: 4008105) is approved by the Board of Certification, Inc. to provide continuing education to Athletic Trainers (ATs).
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Physicians: The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education designates this live activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with their participation.
Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Nurses: Participants will be awarded contact hours of credit for attendance at this workshop.
Nurse Practitioners: The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians: This activity is approved for contact hours.
Athletic Trainers: This program is eligible for Category A hours/CEUs. ATs should claim only those hours actually spent in the educational program.
Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
IPCE: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Learners can claim CE credit by completing the Daily Evaluation.
