Jennifer Jessen, EDD, RN, CNOR, FNAP
Executive Director of CIPER
Creighton University
Jennifer Jessen serves as the Executive Director of the Center of Interprofessional Practice Education and Research (CIPER) for Creighton University. As a CIPER faculty member, she provides resources for students, faculty and clinicians on interprofessional education (IPE) and support both didactic and clinical interprofessional activities for faculty and students. She has ten years of experience working with students, faculty, and clinicians developing instructional strategies in both the didactic and clinical settings.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Lightning Talk Description:  Background/Purpose: Lawyers and financial planners are more often sought for estate directives than primary care providers for end-of life planning. A comprehensive, interprofessional approach to advance care planning (ACP) addressing medical and non-medical decision-making for aging adults is needed. However, few studies have employed an interprofessional ACP approach and none include non-health professionals. The purpose of this project was to advance understanding of the unique role of each interdisciplinary team member in ACP and identify teaching and learning…
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…