Lindsay
Iverson,
DNP, APRN, ACNP, CHSE
Associate Professor
Creighton University
Dr. Iverson is the track lead for the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner program at Creighton University. She maintains her clinical practice as a Hospitalist in Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Iverson’s teaching interests include student assessment, interprofessional education, and simulation. She teaches in didactic and practicum courses in the graduate programs, as well in the graduate pharmacology course. She was the primary author on development of the Creighton Interprofessional Competency Evaluation (CICE) tool which is used to evaluate how interprofessional teams work together.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Lightning Talk Description:
Health professional programs must create learning environments conducive to interprofessional teams to prepare students for their expert roles. Interprofessional Education (IPE) activities are ideal for simulating the collaborative practice environment. Within IPE activities, students must learn to care for patients' physical and mental health needs across their lifespans. Our institution needed IPE offerings highlighting patient diversity, equity, and social determinants of health when providing interprofessional care. In response, faculty developed an…
Lightning Talk Description: Educators in the health sciences are challenged to prepare students for safe practice in complex
health care environments. The Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
(CCICP) identify the need for health professions students to not only learn their own professional
competencies but also competencies to prepare for interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) as
they transition to professionals.
As healthcare models adapt to incorporate collaborative care models, institutions of higher learning must effectively train, assess and provide…