January 4, 2022
In his latest publication in the Journal of Interprofessional Care, "Extending the table: engaging social science in the interprofessional realm," CAIPER Director & Macy Foundation Scholar, Dr. Barret Michalec, seeks to expose what we may take for granted when it comes to social science with, "An overarching goal of Social Science is to make the familiar strange."
September 12, 2019
Innovation abounds at the start of Fall conference season, with CAIPER and partners showcasing new interprofessional tools for team training in education and practice.
February 12, 2020
An Interactive Digital Magazine Approach to Talking About Moral Distress on Primary Care Teams Health care teams in community health centers and other primary care settings work with patients, families and their local communities on some pretty challenging problems.
Recent updates on provider well-being indicate that doctors, nurses and members of their clinical teams experience stress – along with their patients – especially when they aren’t able to do all the work they value or believe they should be doing.
March 30, 2020
Last week, we launched a series called Teaming at a Distance to share practical ways to work as virtual teams and to teach teamwork and collaboration at a distance. The tips and stories come from things we’ve learned through our own work as a remote team, from education and practice members of the Arizona Nexus, and from our national interprofessional colleagues and networks.
Dr. Karen J. Saewert starts us off with a look at what makes interprofessional education and practice meaningful.
April 21, 2020
Our Teaming at a Distance series continues, with the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation's Interprofessional Guiding Coalition sharing their insights and reflective questions on what they're learning about teamwork and IPE during the COVID-19 crisis.
In October, 2019, representatives from Edson College’s undergraduate and graduate programs created an Interprofessional Guiding Coalition (GC) to broaden the impact of its interprofessional footprint in practice, education, and research.
November 15, 2016
This past October, I traveled to Minneapolis with CAIPER team member Dr. Karen Saewert to join the Interprofessional by Design™: Meeting at the Crossroads to Accelerate Leadership Competency and Readiness for Transition to Interprofessional Practice, six-member grant team for a kickoff institute with the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (NCIPE).
February 7, 2017
There is a growing emphasis on the idea of joy in the workplace and a push to add a 4th Aim for Healthcare’s Triple Aim focused on positive practice environments for clinicians. It is easy to understand why this is so important. We have 30+ years worth of data that has identified positive practice environments for clinicians are associated with better outcomes for patients, the workforce and organizations.
March 1, 2017
I have become a champion of interprofessional education (IPE), which has afforded me the opportunity to participate in several efforts to offer face-to-face IPE activities for our students at ASU and beyond. Unfortunately, none these projects were feasible for my own online RN-BSN nursing students to attend.
September 22, 2017
Student Health Outreach for Wellness (SHOW) is a tri-university, student-run clinic where interprofessional teams of students work together to provide health care and education to homeless individuals in the Phoenix, Arizona area. CAIPER has collaborated with SHOW on a variety of initiatives and provided support for the design and evaluation of SHOW’s teamwork model.
October 11, 2017
The American health system is transitioning from an illness care model to a patient centered/community-based prevention and wellness system. This care transformation is the direct result of stressors placed on an overburdened system including an aging and sicker population, lack of preventative care, millions of uninsured individuals, shortage of primary care providers, and rising health care costs.