Jeannette
Kates,
PhD, APRN, AGPCNP-BC, FPCN
Associate Professor and Director, Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program
Thomas Jefferson University
Dr. Kates is Associate Professor and Director of the Adult-Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program at Thomas Jefferson University College of Nursing. She also serves as a faculty lead for the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education's Interprofessional Palliative Care Program and co-lead for the Alzheimer's Virtual Interprofessional Training program.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Lightning Talk Description: The need for primary palliative care education has been recognized across multiple disciplines, but many existing educational efforts have been siloed within individual disciplines. In this lightning talk, we will discuss the development and outcomes of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s Interprofessional Palliative Care program from its pilot in 2020 to its most recent implementation in Spring of 2023. Aligned with the National Consensus Project’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, the program is a semester-…
Over the last three years, faculty and staff members of the Jefferson Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s Racial and Social Justice Taskforce (RSJT) have worked together to actualize the interconnectedness of interprofessional collaborative practice and the advancement of anti-racism in health education and practice. To aid in this work, the team created a curriculum self-study tool, intended to guide critical thinking and facilitate idea generation around issues of racial and social justice within and across the Center’s interprofessional education (IPE) programs. The tool…