JCIPE is pleased to announce our Connect4Change mini-grant funded projects. Each team is unique and innovative in their project that enables interprofessional opportunities for health professional students, faculty and healthcare providers.

The grants are awarded to:

Paving The Way: Providing Clinical Knowledge To Volunteers in a Unique Clinical Setting

Rebecca Bixby RN, BSN, Kathleen Hilbert RN, BSN, Maricruz Velez MPH, CHES, Irbert Vega 3rd year medical student

This team will create an educational module that will prepare health professionals from various disciplines for practice in the area of immigrant health. The project will give providers a culturally competent toolkit of resources, knowledge, and clinical skills which will enable them to better serve immigrant patients both in inpatient as well as outpatient clinical settings.

Clinical Care Planning Interprofessional Course

Marcia Levinson, PT, PhD, MFT; Ann Miller, PharmD, BCPS; Kathryn Shaffer, RN, MSN; Kristin Desimone, MD.

This team will create an interprofessional course that will prepare students for active roles in interprofessional healthcare planning, emphasizing principles of group dynamics and familiarization with roles and functions of health care professionals. At the completion of this experience, the students will be able to identify membership, roles, and contributions of the health care team, define and divide the roles and responsibilities across the continuum of care for the sample cases, planning from the acute through the rehab/chronic phases, to end of life decisions. This course challenges the students to go beyond their discipline- specific knowledge, comprehension, and application to analyze, synthesize and evaluate the most appropriate intervention for this unique person within a multiple health team framework.

Interprofessional Education: Developing Cultural Awareness Using a Workshop Model

Mary Powell, PhD, CRNP, Theresa Yeo, PhD, MPH, ACNP, Andrew Storer, DNP, CRNP, Denise Viscuso, MSN, CRNP, Donna Williams, MD, Alexis N. Marsella, BA

The team will implement workshops that will draw on a series of cultural trigger vignettes to raise issues surrounding differing health beliefs and practices, values in conflict, stereotyping, overt and covert prejudices, and language barriers as they occur in healthcare settings and include situations with patients and families from varying cultures. The workshop platform lends itself as a mechanism by which to bridge the disparate schedules and competing demands of graduate medical and nursing education.