Business Mercado Community Health Fair: An Interprofessional Community Engagement Event

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

• Experiential and/or clinical learning
• Service learning and/or community engagement project

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
• Reducing the cost of care
• 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

• CV credit
• Voluntary basis

Frequency of the IPE Experience

• 01. Annually

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

• 03. 4 to 5 hours

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

• Abilene

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

• 01. up to 50

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences

School of Health Professions Audiences

School of Medicine Audiences

School of Nursing Audiences

• Traditional BSN
• RN to BSN
• Second Degree 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

Values and Ethics

• VE01. Promote the values and interests of persons and populations in health care delivery, One Health, and population health initiatives.
• VE09. Maintain competence in one’s own profession in order to contribute to interprofessional care.
• 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.
• VE06. Collaborate with honesty and integrity while striving for health equity and improvements in health outcomes.
• VE05. Value the expertise of health professionals and its impacts on team functions and health outcomes.
• VE04. Value diversity, identities, cultures, and differences.
• VE03. Uphold the dignity, privacy, identity, and autonomy of persons while maintaining confidentiality in the delivery of team-based care.

Roles and Responsibilities

• RR05. Practice cultural humility in interprofessional teamwork.
• 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.
• RR02. Collaborate with others within and outside of the health system to improve health outcomes.

Communication

• C03. Communicate clearly with authenticity and cultural humility, avoiding discipline-specific terminology.
• C05. Practice active listening that encourages ideas and opinions of other team members.

Teams and Teamwork

• TT02. Appreciate team members’ diverse experiences, expertise, cultures, positions, power, and roles towards improving team function.
• TT03. Practice team reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• TT04. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.
• TT06. Reflect on self and team performance to inform and improve team effectiveness.
• TT07. Share team accountability for outcomes.