After summarizing our group led discussion this week, one key theme I focused on was the use of interprofessional educatioin (IPE) in nursing academia. It is easy to understand the benefits of IPE, learning with other disciplines as students, developing communication skills, and learning to understand the roles that other disciplines play in healthcare. IPE is a preamble for the important interprofessional practice (IPP) settings that are more and more important in healthcare today.
Consensus from our class discussion identified that we all see the benefits, but very few could speak to experience in a true IPE class. One class mate conveyed how IPE was being built into their nursing curriculum, but hadn't yet been implemented. As identified in our learning this week, some of the biggest obstacles to creating curriculum using IPE are coordinating different students schedules and having faculty that are prepared and willing to participate in interfaculty course design. Perhaps one of the benefits of this class will be preparing a whole future group of nursing educators to work towards universally adapting IPE in academic curricula.
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