The 8-hour SIM Day: An Interprofessional Simulation

Registration Details for Learners

Lubbock campus: Email courtnie.moore@ttuhsc.edu for more info Abilene campus: Email donna.paris@ttuhsc.edu for more info Amarillo campus: Email amanda.hedtke@ttuhsc.edu for more info Mansfield campus: Email nancy.ochs@ttuhsc.edu for more info Odessa campus: Email sonya.ritchie@ttuhsc.edu for more info

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

IPEC Core Competencies Targeted by this IPE Experience

• Communication: Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and compassionate manner with team members.
• 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.
• Roles and Responsibilities: Use the knowledge of one’s own role and team members’ expertise to address individual and population health outcomes.

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

• Course requirement - for nursing and speech this is a required component
• CV credit

Frequency of the IPE Experience

• 02. Semesterly
• 3 days each semester (usually Wednesdays)

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

• 05. 8 to 10 hours
• Nursing students arrive at 0730, begin care of SP, 1000 Med students round as MD, 1100 or 1200 Speech students complete speech evals. 30 debrief with speech students. 1300-1630 Nursing students complete care of patient. 30 min post debrief.

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

• Abilene
• Lubbock
• Odessa
• Amarillo
• Mansfield

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

• 04. 151 to 200
• This number depends upon how many nursing students across all 5 campuses each semester as well as how many speech-language pathology students and medical students are available on a given semester.

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences

School of Health Professions Audiences

• Physician Assistant Studies, MPAS
• Speech-Language Pathology, MS
• Occupational Therapy, OTD
• Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, BS

School of Medicine Audiences

• MS 2
• MS 3

School of Nursing Audiences

• Traditional BSN

School of Pharmacy Audiences

School of Population and Public Health Audiences

Other

Values and Ethics

• VE07. Practice trust, empathy, respect, and compassion with persons, caregivers, health professionals, and populations.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• RR05. Practice cultural humility in interprofessional teamwork.

Communication

• 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.
• C02. Use communication tools, techniques, and technologies to enhance team function, well-being, and health outcomes.
• C01. Communicate one’s roles and responsibilities clearly.
• 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

• TT03. Practice team reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• TT06. Reflect on self and team performance to inform and improve team effectiveness.
• TT04. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.
• TT09. Operate from a shared framework that supports resiliency, well-being, safety, and efficacy.