Interdisciplinary Health Education Partnership
Developing
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interprofessional
simulation across institutions
What is IHEP?
Interdisciplinary Health Education Partnership – an inter-institutional partnership focused on developing, delivering and evaluating authentic pre-licensure learning experiences in simulation-based environments (clinical and community)
How did we do this?
• Funding from Provincial Government a catalyst • Made the time to build relationships across the institutions • Built inter-institutional learning experiences focused on effective teamwork, communication, collaboration and role clarification • Learning experiences delivered with students from across the institutions; sit outside formal curricula, so no curricular connections/limitations
Innovations
Outcomes
Student: increased readiness to work as an IP team and knowledge of other prof. roles/scopes of practice; reinforced importance of effective IP communication
“I realized that what I say and what is normal for me is not common terminology for someone else.”
Nursing student
How can you do this?
Take the time to build relationships Administrators: • identify champions and let them do their thing! • clarify in advance ‘in-kind’, access to dollars, rules around money Educators: • be creative, don’t be bound by usual curricular constraints
Institutions
Educator: gained/enhanced skills in debriefing an IP simulation
4 post-secondary institutions and a health provider: • University of Alberta (research intensive) • NorQuest College (community college) • MacEwan University (university) • Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (polytechnical institute) • Alberta Health Services (health provider)
Institutional: formed a learning community of committed educators and administrators focused on removing barriers to IPE
• Save Stan Simulation Saturday – full day of IP sims for pre-licensure students • 4 hr workshop on how to debrief IP team-based simulations • Debriefing guide developed to focus on IP team competencies • Sim Etc. 3 day course, now being offered out of province
Grant funding obtained five educational partners
Leaders meet
2008
Faculty development takes shape 2009
Project manager and other staffing
Curriculum development
Boot camps
SAVE STAN Saturday ONE
2010
2011
SIM ETC. and debriefing continues
Sharla King, University of Alberta and Colette Foisy-Doll, MacEwan University
SAVE STAN Saturday TWO 2012