Identifying and capitalizing organic interprofessional touchpoints during clinical education experiences for health profession students through continuous quality improvement
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Efforts of healthcare educators and clinicians who focus on interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) has yielded improved patient outcomes. With a primary goal to produce clinicians who are collaborative practice ready, continuous quality improvement (CQI) assessment is necessary for systems improvement for healthcare stakeholders. The CQI project sought to understand how to efficiently capture IPE and IPCP experiences occurring during clinical education experiences through understanding the percentage of students participating, number occurring, and how to improve the quality of organic IPE and IPCP experiences. The study was conducted as a CQI project using aims and key drivers. Run charts were integral to analyzing outcomes for change indicators. Project outcomes support IPE and IPCP experiences are happening organically which serve to train students to function as care team members. The use of CQI assessment confirmed how to improve capturing, tracking, and improving these IPE and IPCP experiences during clinical education experiences so that they can become sustainable and enable greater future student success.
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