Immersive Healthcare Training for Collaborative Practice: An Interprofessional Virtual Reality 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

• Case-based and/or problem-based learning
• Simulation 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

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

Level of IPE Integration

• 2. 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

• Voluntary basis
• Certificate credit

Frequency of the IPE Experience

• 02. Semesterly

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

• 02. 1 to 3 hours
• ~1hr for the simulation followed by a facilitated debrief.

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

• Distance Education
• Midland
• Lubbock

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

• 01. up to 50

Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Audiences

School of Health Professions Audiences

• Physician Assistant Studies, MPAS

School of Medicine Audiences

School of Nursing Audiences

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

School of Pharmacy Audiences

School of Population and Public Health Audiences

Other

Values and Ethics

• VE05. Value the expertise of health professionals and its impacts on team functions and health outcomes.

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.
• RR03. Incorporate complementary expertise to meet health needs including the determinants of health.
• 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.
• C02. Use communication tools, techniques, and technologies to enhance team function, well-being, and health outcomes.
• C03. Communicate clearly with authenticity and cultural humility, avoiding discipline-specific terminology.
• C04. Promote common understanding of shared goals.
• C05. Practice active listening that encourages ideas and opinions of other team members.

Teams and Teamwork

• TT03. Practice team reasoning, problem-solving, and decision-making.
• TT04. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.
• TT07. Share team accountability for outcomes.
• TT09. Operate from a shared framework that supports resiliency, well-being, safety, and efficacy.