National Rural Health Day: An Interprofessional Small Group 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

• Workshop, interactive demo, or small group activity

IPEC Core Competencies Targeted by this IPE Experience

• 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

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

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

• Portfolio credit
• Certificate credit

Frequency of the IPE Experience

• 01. Annually
• Annually on National Rural Health Day in November

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

• 02. 1 to 3 hours

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

• Midland
• Odessa

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

• 02. 51 to 100

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences

School of Health Professions Audiences

• Physical Therapy, DPT
• Physician Assistant Studies, MPAS

School of Medicine Audiences

• MS 3
• MS 4
• Residents

School of Nursing Audiences

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

School of Pharmacy Audiences

School of Population and Public Health Audiences

Other

Values and Ethics

• VE01. Promote the values and interests of persons and populations in health care delivery, One Health, and population health initiatives.
• VE11. Support a workplace where differences are respected, career satisfaction is supported, and wellbeing is prioritized.

Roles and Responsibilities

• 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.
• RR02. Collaborate with others within and outside of the health system to improve health outcomes.
• RR04. Differentiate each team member’s role, scope of practice, and responsibility in promoting health outcomes.

Communication

• C01. Communicate one’s roles and responsibilities clearly.
• C04. Promote common understanding of shared goals.

Teams and Teamwork

• TT08. Facilitate team coordination to achieve safe, effective care and health outcomes.
• TT10. Discuss organizational structures, policies, practices, resources, access to information, and timing issues that impact the effectiveness of the team.