Emergency Preparedness in Communities (EPIC) Day: An Interprofessional Small Group Activity

Criteria for Registering the IPE Experience

• Involvement of two or more professions.
• Opportunities to learn about, from, and with one another.
• Significant interactivity between participants.
• Teaching and/or learning about interprofessional practice and education is intentionally integrated into the activity. Interprofessional practice and education constructs are targeted with IPE learning objectives are also discussed, trained, reviewed, and/or assessed as part of the learning activity.

Type of IPE Experience

• Team-building event
• Workshop, interactive demo, or small group activity

IPEC Core Competencies Targeted by this IPE Experience

• Roles and Responsibilities: Use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address individual and population health outcomes.
• Values and Ethics: Work with team members to maintain a climate of shared values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect.
• Teams and Teamwork: Apply values and principles of the science of teamwork to adapt one's own role in a variety of team settings.
• Communication: Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.

Quintuple Aim Strategic Goals Discussed in this IPE Experience

• Advancing health equity
• Improving patient and/or population health outcomes

Level of IPE Integration

• 1. Foundations Level: Consists of introductory learning activities that provide learners with the opportunity to interact and learn from professionals and peers from disciplines beyond their own. The desired outcome for activities offered at this level is that learners will gain a deeper understanding of their profession while gaining an appreciation for the perspective and roles of other professions.

Attendance or Participation in the IPE Experience

• Certificate credit
• Portfolio credit
• Program and/or school requirement

Frequency of the IPE Experience

• 01. Annually
• Annually in the February of the Spring semester

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

• 03. 4 to 5 hours
• 10:30am to 3:30pm

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

• Abilene
• Amarillo
• Lubbock
• Odessa
• Dallas
• Distance Education

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

• 07. 401 to 750
• ~600 students

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences

• Biomedical Sciences, MS
• Biomedical Sciences, PhD
• Biotechnology, MS
• Graduate Medical Sciences, MS
• Pharmaceutical Sciences, MS
• Pharmaceutical Sciences, PhD

School of Health Professions Audiences

• Addiction Counseling, MS
• Athletic Training, MAT
• Audiology, AuD
• Clinical Mental Health Counseling, MS
• Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling, MS
• Healthcare Administration, MS
• Physical Therapy, DPT
• Medical Laboratory Science (Certificate)
• Medical Laboratory Science (Second Degree), BS
• Medical Laboratory Science, BS
• Healthcare Management, BS
• Molecular Pathology, MS
• Occupational Therapy, OTD
• Occupational Therapy (Post-Professional), OTD-P
• Rehabilitation Science, ScD
• Physician Assistant Studies, MPAS
• Rehabilitation Science, PhD
• Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (Second Degree), BS
• Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, BS
• Speech-Language Pathology, MS

School of Medicine Audiences

• MS 3
• MS 1
• MS 2
• MS 4
• Residents

School of Nursing Audiences

• Traditional BSN
• Doctor of Nursing Practice
• Graduate MSN
• Post-Master’s/Advanced Practice
• RN to BSN
• Second Degree BSN
• Veteran BSN

School of Pharmacy Audiences

• P3
• P4
• P1
• P2
• SOP Residents

School of Population and Public Health Audiences

• Public Health, MPH Traditional
• Public Health, MPH Online

Other

Values and Ethics

• VE01. Promote the values and interests of persons and populations in health care delivery, One Health, and population health initiatives.
• VE03. Uphold the dignity, privacy, identity, and autonomy of persons while maintaining confidentiality in the delivery of team-based care.
• VE04. Value diversity, identities, cultures, and differences.
• VE11. Support a workplace where differences are respected, career satisfaction is supported, and wellbeing is prioritized.
• VE05. Value the expertise of health professionals and its impacts on team functions and health outcomes.

Roles and Responsibilities

• RR01. Include the full scope of knowledge, skills, and attitudes of team members to provide care that is person-centered, safe, cost-effective, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable.
• RR02. Collaborate with others within and outside of the health system to improve health outcomes.
• RR03. Incorporate complementary expertise to meet health needs including the determinants of health.
• RR04. Differentiate each team member’s role, scope of practice, and responsibility in promoting health outcomes.

Communication

• C02. Use communication tools, techniques, and technologies to enhance team function, well-being, and health outcomes.
• C04. Promote common understanding of shared goals.

Teams and Teamwork

• TT06. Reflect on self and team performance to inform and improve team effectiveness.
• TT03. Practice team reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• TT04. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.
• TT02. Appreciate team members’ diverse experiences, expertise, cultures, positions, power, and roles towards improving team function.
• TT09. Operate from a shared framework that supports resiliency, well-being, safety, and efficacy.
• TT10. Discuss organizational structures, policies, practices, resources, access to information, and timing issues that impact the effectiveness of the team.