Speech-Language Pathology/Occupational Therapy Co-Treatment: An Interprofessional Collaborative Care Experience

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

• Clinical observation and/or professional interview
• 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.

Quintuple Aim Strategic Goals Discussed in this IPE Experience

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

Level of IPE Integration

• 3. Entry-to-Practice Level: Consists of practice-ready learning activities where learners will integrate their interprofessional education and collaborative knowledge and skills in an authentic team-based environment. These activities will have learners actively engaged in team decision-making around patient, family, and/or community care. The desired outcome for activities offered at this level is the development of each IPEC Core Competency to enable a team-based approach.

Attendance or Participation in the IPE Experience

• Experiential credit - direct clinical contact hours

Frequency of the IPE Experience

• 03. Quarterly
• 02. Semesterly
• Spring semesters - 1-3x per week for 12-13 weeks with additional OT-SLP team prep time
  Summer semester - 2-5 intensive summer therapy programs (2-4x/week for 2-4 weeks for each program session)
  

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

• 06. greater than 11 hours
• On-going experiential learning experience offered each semester.

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

• Clinical or experiential rotation
• Lubbock

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

• 01. up to 50
• Spring - 8 OT Students; 12 SLP Students
  Summer - 15 OT Students; 40 SLP Students

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences

School of Health Professions Audiences

• Speech-Language Pathology, MS
• Occupational Therapy, OTD

School of Medicine Audiences

School of Nursing Audiences

School of Pharmacy Audiences

School of Population and Public Health Audiences

Other

Values and Ethics

• VE08. Apply high standards of ethical conduct and quality in contributions to team-based care.
• VE07. Practice trust, empathy, respect, and compassion with persons, caregivers, health professionals, and populations.
• VE04. Value diversity, identities, cultures, and differences.
• VE09. Maintain competence in one’s own profession in order to contribute to interprofessional care.
• 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.
• VE05. Value the expertise of health professionals and its impacts on team functions and health outcomes.
• VE06. Collaborate with honesty and integrity while striving for health equity and improvements in health outcomes.

Roles and Responsibilities

• RR03. Incorporate complementary expertise to meet health needs including the determinants of health.
• RR02. Collaborate with others within and outside of the health system to improve health outcomes.
• RR05. Practice cultural humility in interprofessional teamwork.
• 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.

Communication

• C02. Use communication tools, techniques, and technologies to enhance team function, well-being, and health outcomes.
• C04. Promote common understanding of shared goals.
• C06. Use constructive feedback to connect, align, and accomplish team goals.
• C05. Practice active listening that encourages ideas and opinions of other team members.
• C03. Communicate clearly with authenticity and cultural humility, avoiding discipline-specific terminology.
• C07. Examine one’s position, power, role, unique experience, expertise, and culture towards improving communication and managing conflicts.

Teams and Teamwork

• TT04. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.
• TT01. Describe evidence-informed processes of team development and team practices.
• TT03. Practice team reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• TT05. Apply interprofessional conflict management methods, including identifying conflict cause and addressing divergent perspectives.
• TT06. Reflect on self and team performance to inform and improve team effectiveness.
• TT07. Share team accountability for outcomes.