Sheri Price, RN, PhD, FCAN, FAAN
Professor
Dalhousie University
Dr. Sheri Lynn Price is a Professor with the School of Nursing, Dalhousie University, and an Affiliate Scientist at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Dr. Price is also a Collaborator with the Pan-Canadian Health Human Research Network and a Co-Investigator with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Workforce Planning. Her program of research is focused in the areas of nursing recruitment, health services, interprofessional collaboration and healthcare work environments. Her research has advanced our understanding of how early influences on professional identity formation, including historical stereotypes, can impact not only recruitment but also career satisfaction and retention- issues of critical importance. Her research has also informed the development of strategies to enhance interprofessional socialization and the quality of healthcare workplaces. She currently leads several studies designed at improving interprofessional education and collaboration across the health professions and she employs novel knowledge translation strategies using dramatic arts, videos, and social media. Recognition for her innovation and contributions to nursing and interprofessional education scholarship have resulted in numerous prestigious research and leadership awards and invited/keynote speaking engagements at national and international forums. Dr. Price is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing and the American Academy of Nursing.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Seminar Description: Learning Objectives:• Identify and reflect on the achievements and challenges of IPE evolvement over the past few decades. • Discuss the importance of interprofessional socialization and dual (professional and interprofessional) identity formation in preparing interprofessional practitioners.• Explore ways to integrate and value IPS at all levels ((individual, profession, and system levels) using an ontological perspective.Over the past five decades, interprofessional practice and education (IPE) has experienced significant improvements as an approach to address the need…