Collaborative Care Planning for Residents in Long-term Care Facilities: An Interprofessional Clinical Learning Activity

Criteria for Registering the IPE Experience

• Opportunities to learn about, from, and with one another.
• Significant interactivity between participants.
• Involvement of two or more professions.
• 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

• Clinical observation and/or professional interview
• Case-based and/or problem-based learning
• Experiential and/or clinical learning

IPEC Core Competencies Targeted by this IPE Experience

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

Quintuple Aim Strategic Goals Discussed in this IPE Experience

• Improving patient and/or population health outcomes
• Enhancing the experience of care
• Advancing health equity

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

• Voluntary basis
• CV credit
• Certificate of Attendance

Frequency of the IPE Experience

• 07. Bi-weekly
• Care plan meetings are weekly. Select students and faculty will attend the Care Plan meetings twice during a month with one debriefing meeting at the HSC.

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

• 02. 1 to 3 hours

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

• Lubbock
• Clinical or experiential rotation - Long-term Care and Skilled Nursing Facilities

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

• 01. up to 50

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences

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

School of Health Professions Audiences

• Addiction Counseling, MS
• Audiology, AuD
• Clinical Mental Health Counseling, MS
• Healthcare Administration, MS
• Healthcare Management, BS
• Occupational Therapy, OTD
• Occupational Therapy (Post-Professional), OTD-P
• Physical Therapy, DPT
• 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 4

School of Nursing Audiences

• RN to BSN
• Second Degree BSN
• Traditional BSN
• Veteran BSN

School of Pharmacy Audiences

• P3
• P4

School of Population and Public Health Audiences

• Public Health, Certificate
• Public Health, MPH Traditional

Other

Values and Ethics

• VE01. Promote the values and interests of persons and populations in health care delivery, One Health, and population health initiatives.
• VE04. Value diversity, identities, cultures, and differences.
• VE06. Collaborate with honesty and integrity while striving for health equity and improvements in health outcomes.

Roles and Responsibilities

• RR05. Practice cultural humility in interprofessional teamwork.
• 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

• C03. Communicate clearly with authenticity and cultural humility, avoiding discipline-specific terminology.
• C04. Promote common understanding of shared goals.
• C05. Practice active listening that encourages ideas and opinions of other team members.
• C07. Examine one’s position, power, role, unique experience, expertise, and culture towards improving communication and managing conflicts.

Teams and Teamwork

• TT03. Practice team reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• TT07. Share team accountability for outcomes.
• TT06. Reflect on self and team performance to inform and improve team effectiveness.
• TT04. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.