Meg
Zomorodi,
PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Associate Provost for Interprofessional Health Initiatives
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Meg Zomorodi PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN is the Associate Provost for Interprofessional Health Initiatives which oversees the Office of Interprofessional Education and Practice and Health Professions Advising. She is a Professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina. She currently serves as the Director of the Rural Interprofessional Health Initiative (RIPHI), in which interprofessional teams of students work together with rural and underserved communities to give back using a quality improvement methodology.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Intentional longitudinal curricula instilling interprofessional principles, skills, and behaviors is critical to developing a collaborative practice ready workforce. Further, assessment of student learning and competency in interprofessional learning environments provides necessary data to support and demonstrate the impact of interprofessional learning. Although interprofessional education (IPE) is an essential component to building effective interprofessional practices, gaps remain in strategies to design longitudinal IPE curricula and assess student competency.
At UNC Chapel Hill, the…
Lightning Talk Description: According to the National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE), the ideal interprofessional clinical learning environment (CLE) is a ‘shared space between various professions collaborating with patients and caregivers, working together to provide the best care possible’ and occurs in any areas where professional students are training1. While great strides have been made in interprofessional education, more work is needed to maximize the CLE to be an ideal interprofessional practice space. Designing an assessment tool to provide…
Seminar Description: Psychological safety – the shared belief that team members can take interpersonal risks is a relational factor that is essential to high functioning teams and high-quality health care. For example, hospitals with increased psychological safety experienced significantly greater reductions in risk-standardized mortality rates following acute myocardial infarction. Cardiothoracic surgery teams at an academic health center found that enhanced psychological safety significantly decreased surgical errors and nurse turnover at 12 months. Psychological safety matters and requires…
Lightning Talk Description: This interactive interprofessional activity demonstrates how health professionals work cooperatively to treat patients with a traumatic brain injury (TBI); helping students to understand a patient's journey from the moment of injury through the continuum of in-patient and outpatient care. Students from Athletic Training, Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling, Dentistry, Education, Exercise Sports Science, Medicine, Nursing, and Speech and Hearing Sciences participated. Utilizing a ‘double jigsaw’ approach and interactive videos, students are guided…