Capturing Interprofessional Conference Conversations Using a World Café Approach Anthony Breitbach PhD, ATC Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri USA Introduction Professional and academic conferences are great opportunities to gather with colleagues who have expertise in your field of interest. Many times these events provide opportunities for rich interaction and conversations that could benefit the… Read More »

An Inter-agency approach to end deaths of homeless persons Natalie Kroovand Hipple (1); Sarah J. M. Shaefer (2); Robert F. Hipple, Jr. (3) 1. Indiana University, Department of Criminal Justice 2. National Fetal & Infant Mortality Review Program; American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists 3. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Contact: nkroovan@indiana.edu Abstract The homeless are… Read More »

Report Review: Developing and Sustaining Interprofessional Health Care: Optimizing patient, Organizational and System Outcomes Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO)Toronto, Canada: Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario, 2013.102 pages, $35.00 (Hardcopy), Free Download Available Online In December 2013, the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) released guidelines as part of the Healthy Work Environments Best Practice Guidelines… Read More »

Interprofessional (IP) care is critical for effective pain management, but evidence is lacking about the best way to teach pain management skills to medical and nursing students using IP strategies. In 2013 and 2014, 307 medical and 169 nursing students participated in an IP case-based pain management workshop. Erickson and colleagues conducted a study to… Read More »

Perceptions of Health Sciences Students on an Introductory Interprofessional Education Course Joe Paul Castillo, Trent Gahl, Liz Torrez, Joua Vang, Jessica Womack, Joy Doll, Ann Ryan Haddad, Anna Maio, Katie Packard, Meghan Potthoff  Creighton University Center for Interprofessional Practice, Education and Research (CIPER) and Creighton Department of Occupational Therapy Introduction Healthcare is a complicated, critical, and… Read More »

Outcomes in clinical oncology can be improved when care is delivered by high-performance teams.  A study by James, Page, and Sprague was conducted with the purpose of developing interprofessional team training opportunities using simulated cancer care scenarios to enhance collaborative practice skills within clinical oncology. Scenarios were developed based on internal needs assessment and review of patient safety… Read More »

Ten Tips for Publishing Manuscripts in the Journal of InterprofessionalCare Andrea Silvaggi, RN, MN-PHCNP program student  University of Western Ontario, Canada   Introduction During the past two months I have had the opportunity to work with the Journal of Interprofessional Care (JIC) by helping to select reviewers and by having a chance to review an… Read More »

This is a useful foundational textbook geared towards understanding group work and interpersonal skills at the college or university level. The textbook provides a practical, skills based overview of the range of helping skills required within a group context including topicssuch as group member roles, establishing effective rules, goal setting, effective communication, dispute and problem resolution, and the evaluation of group performance. The author, Bruce Bjorkquist, has taught at the college level for over 30 years… Read More »

Editors Ana Marta González, a professor of Moral Philosophy and coordinator of the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarra, and Craig Iffland, a PhD student in Moral Theology at the University of Notre Dame present a compilation of academic essays from 11 worldwide contributing authors and scholars, including an introduction imparted… Read More »

In this report the authors have written engaging and educational chapters that identify the practices and guidelines of interprofessional collaboration. The report is directed towards an audience who is involved or interested in the health care field, and looking for more information on improving collaboration based on a health care model of the United States. The report focuses on identifying interprofessional collaboration in practice and the day-to-day activities health care organizations put into the concept of interprofessional collaboration. The authors of this report use a format and writing style that is easy to understand for… Read More »