Cheri
Friedrich,
DNP, APRN, IBCLC, CPNP-PC, FNAP, FAAN
Clinical Professor, Co-Director of Interprofessional Education / CPNP-PC Specialty Coordinator
University of Minnesota
Cheri Friedrich, DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC, IBCLC, FNAP, FAAN is a Clinical Professor in the School of Nursing, and is the specialty coordinator of the pediatric nurse practitioner-primacy care specialty Doctor of Nursing Practice program at the School of Nursing. She first began teaching at the University of Minnesota in 1992 and has taught across three programs at the school: the Bachelor of Science (BSN) program, the Masters of Nursing (MN) program, and the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. Dr. Friedrich draws on her years of experience as a primary care PNP and interprofessional team member to inform her teaching, as she consistently integrates teaching of graduate students into her clinical practice. Dr. Friedrich maintains an active clinical practice in a non-profit clinic that serves un- and under-insured children and their families in Anoka County.
Dr. Friedrich also has a broad focus on interprofessional education which is evident in all three missions of the School of Nursing: teaching, service and scholarship. Dr. Friedrich is currently a Co-Director of the University’s Center for Interprofessional Health. She has been instrumental in representing and co-leading efforts in developing innovative interprofessional teaching and learning strategies through this work. Dr. Friedrich has been the lead faculty developer on two interprofessional escape rooms for both early and advanced learners.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Seminar Description: The need for intentionally structured IPE experiences with clear goals and metrics across the learning continuum has been nationally and repeatedly endorsed. The 2019 Health Professions Accreditors Collaborative (HPAC) report stresses the importance of developing and organizing quality IPE programs, including systematic institutional IPE approaches, collaboration across academic programs to scaffold learning experiences appropriate to learners’ levels, and longitudinal integration into existing professional curricula. However, challenges in designing systematic IPE…
Lightning Talk Description: This lightning talk revisits an innovative continuing education curriculum for health professionals highlighted at the 2022 National Center Summit with an additional year’s worth of data. This program helps busy clinician-educators develop and apply the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies in their roles as providers and preceptors within interprofessional clinical learning environments. This work is an example of theme 2: Practice-Education Partnerships Advancing Care with People and Communities. Not only does this activity provide…