Disaster Day: An Interprofessional Mass Casualty Simulation

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

• Simulation learning
• Team-building event

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

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

Level of IPE Integration

• Immersion Level: Consists of development learning activities that provide learners with the opportunity to learn about, with, and from other professional learners in an active learning situation where they are applying learning during the activity. The desired outcome for activities offered at the immersion level is that learners will develop critical thinking skills as part of an interprofessional view that incorporates multiple perspectives, and acknowledges and encourages diversity in providing quality health and human services.

Attendance or Participation in the IPE Experience

• Certificate credit
• CV credit
• Portfolio credit
• Voluntary basis
• Program and/or school requirement

Frequency of the IPE Experience

• 01. Annually
• Annual Event in the Spring Semester

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

• 04. 6 to 7 hours
• Full day event

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

• Lubbock
• Amarillo

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

• 07. 401 to 750
• 350

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
• Medical Laboratory Science (Certificate)
• Medical Laboratory Science (Second Degree), BS
• Medical Laboratory Science, BS
• Clinical Mental Health Counseling, MS
• Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling, MS
• Healthcare Administration, MS
• Healthcare Management, BS
• Molecular Pathology, MS
• 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
• Occupational Therapy, OTD
• Occupational Therapy (Post-Professional), OTD-P
• Healthcare Administration (Certificate)

School of Medicine Audiences

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

School of Nursing Audiences

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

School of Pharmacy Audiences

• P1
• P2
• P3
• P4
• SOP Residents

School of Population and Public Health Audiences

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

Other

EMS and Fire Academy learners. Community response representatives. TTU School of Vet Medicine in Amarillo.

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.
• 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.
• VE06. Collaborate with honesty and integrity while striving for health equity and improvements in health outcomes.
• VE02. Advocate for social justice and health equity of persons and populations across the life span.
• VE05. Value the expertise of health professionals and its impacts on team functions and 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• C01. Communicate one’s roles and responsibilities clearly.

Teams and Teamwork

• TT04. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.
• 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.
• TT08. Facilitate team coordination to achieve safe, effective care and health outcomes.