Sara
Banzhaf,
DNP, APRN-NP, PMHNP-BC
Assistant Professor/Track Leader
Creighton University
Dr. Sara Banzhaf is the track leader for the Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Track. Current clinical practice is at an urban interprofessional community healthcare clinic as a PMHNP. Scholarship interests include innovative strategies promoting quality interprofessional psychiatric-mental health practice and education, and the integration of a reflective practice promoting quality outcomes. She currently is the principal investigator for the grant project: An Interprofessional Approach to Psychiatric-Mental Health Assessment in an Urban Community Clinic and the principal invesitigator for the grant project: Leveraging an Academic -Service Partnership to Increase Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioners in Nebraska. Additionally, Dr. Banzhaf serves as the Co-Chair for the APNA Graduate Education Council and is an active member of Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska.
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…