An Interdisciplinary Education Model Applied to an Interprofessional Health Care Ethics Course

Landry, Karen Ainsworth

Saturday, 29 October 2011

Karen Ainsworth Landry, PhD, RN
Regina Bentley, RN, MSN, EdD
College of Nursing, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Bryan, TX

Learning Objective 1: Discuss the framework of an Interprofessional Health Care Ethics (IPHCE) Course.

Learning Objective 2: Identify characteristics of an Interdisciplinary Education Model within an Interprofessional Health Care Ethics Course.

The IOM Summit on Health Professions Education (2002) and Report (2003) Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality state “All health professionals should be educated to deliver patient-centered care as members of an interdisciplinary team, emphasizing evidence-based practice, quality improvement approaches, and informatics.” Most recently, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on The Future of Nursing (2010) at the IOM reemphasizes this statement.

In health care settings all health care professionals must work together; however the present mode of education does not encourage them to participate in class together. In the Fall 2010, Texas A&M Health Science Center implemented its first Interprofessional health care ethics course. Colleges participating in this project were Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacy and pastoral students. An interdisciplinary team comprised of all components was formed early in the process. This presentation will outline the process as well as discussion of the Interdisciplinary Education Model that was applied to the process. Analysis and application of key principles utilized will be reviewed. An application model that was developed will be discussed. This model may be used in future nursing educational research.

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