NONPF 39th Annual Meeting
Acute Care Nurse Practitioners work collaboratively, interacting with nurses, respiratory therapy, pharmacists, and nursing educators on a daily basis. However, the education of these groups historically occurs within each respective domain and lacks a focus on teamwork with other professions. To improve safety and yield the highest quality patient care and produce the best outcomes, recent publications, including the Core Competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice; The Forum on the Future of Nursing for Acute Care (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine (IOM, 2009) encourage interprofesional education and training. We seek to adopt these recommendations and simulation as an excellent modality to facilitate interprofessional education.
The scenarios used in this project emphasized team communication using SBAR Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation (SBAR) communication strategy, incorporated for use by the professions involved. The simulation experience was designed so all participants demonstrated their unique areas of expertise and contribution to patient care at the bedside. Simulation of real life experiences also occurred where the nurse practitioner students educated the nurses as well as learned from other team members while at the bedside.
This project also reflects two important concepts for NP curriculum incorporation. First, the collaboration of educational organizations & health care facilities together to train healthcare staff in this manner both before and after licensure. In addition, recognition of utilizing technology can improve efficiency in acute care settings. Challenges and lessons learned will be discussed along with future consideration and moving forward to provide simulation experiences for IPE education in NP curriculum.
I look forward to sharing our interprofessional educational experiences as well as learning from the experiences of those in attendance.
