The Escape Room Challenge: An Interprofessional Team-building Activity


TTUHSC Interprofessional Practice and Education (IPE) Experience


Title of the Interprofessional Practice and Education Experience

The Escape Room Challenge: An Interprofessional Team-building Activity


Experience Status

Approved


Approval Date Range

6/21/2019 - 1/22/2025


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

  • Team-building event

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.

Quintuple Aim Strategic Goals Discussed in this IPE Experience

  • Improving patient and/or population health outcomes

Detailed Description and Purpose of the IPE Experience

In doing this interprofessional escape room, interprofessional teams of healthcare professional students will be challenged to complete a set of puzzles and riddles in order to ‘escape’ a room. To begin, teams are given a brief on the objectives of the activity and provided a patient case scenario to introduce them to the situation. Student teams will enter a room full of hidden puzzles to complete, based on the patient case scenario given. The completion of each puzzle is crucial in the continuation of consecutive puzzles that follow. Students will have 60 minutes to work together and solve their way, in this case, to finding a needed key for the patient. Following the escape room, students will debrief communication and teamwork skills with an IPE facilitator.

Learning Objectives for the Interprofessional Team-Building Activity:

1. Practice efficient teamwork and communication skills needed to provide patient-centered care.

2. Understand how and when to consult with other healthcare professionals based upon roles and responsibilities.

3. Rely on the strengths and weaknesses of others to problem-solve team-building puzzles.

4. Understand how to include the patient and patient’s family in determining next steps and developing a care plan.

5. Practice implementing a care plan as an interprofessional team.


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

  • Certificate credit
  • Voluntary basis

Frequency of the IPE Experience

  • 01. Annually
  • The Escape Room will be an annual IPE activity in the summer semester.

Duration and/or Timeline of the IPE Experience

  • 01. up to 1 hour
  • The escape room is approximately 60 min.

Campus and/or Location of the IPE Experience

  • Lubbock
  • Distance Education

Average Number of Learners Participating in the IPE Experience

  • 02. 51 to 100
  • ~100 students per semester

Target Audiences

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

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

Other

IPE Learning Objectives for the Experience

Values and Ethics

  • VE07. Practice trust, empathy, respect, and compassion with persons, caregivers, health professionals, and populations.

Roles and Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • C05. Practice active listening that encourages ideas and opinions of other team members.

Teams and Teamwork

  • TT04. Use shared leadership practices to support team effectiveness.

Type of Learner Assessment Administered

  • Attitudinal and/or perceptions survey

Formal Assessment Protocol used, if Applicable

Type of Program Evaluation Administered

  • Activity feedback/evaluation – from learners
  • Facilitated debrief with planning committee

Provide Details on the Potential Sustainability of the IPE Experience

  • Dedicated personnel
  • Dedicated resources
  • The TTUHSC Office of Interprofessional Education is committed to sustaining this activity over time.

Provide Dedicated Funding Sources:

  • Centralized university administration funding

Roles of Faculty/Staff in the IPE Experience:

  • Facilitators
  • Facilitators

Additional Information About the IPE Experience, if Necessary


IPE Experience Organizer

  • Office of Interprofessional Education

Contact Person(s) and Contact Information for the IPE Experience

Danette Weller, M.S.
Office of Interprofessional Education
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
3601 4th Street | STOP 6231 | Office 3B 352 | Lubbock, Texas 79430-6231
806.743.4307 | danette.weller@ttuhsc.edu