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    A Day in the Life of a Nurse Manager

    A Day in the Life of a Nurse Manager

      As we celebrate Nurses Month, we at USAHS wanted to get a sense of what a typical workday is like for a nurse manager. We asked alum Ahnnya Slaughter, DNP, to tell us all about a day in her life. Dr. Slaughter graduated in 2021 from USAHS’ Doctor of Nursing Practice program, the Nurse Executive role specialty. Coming from a military family, she began working at a VA hospital in the Los Angeles area 30 years ago as a critical care RN. “Veterans deserve the best care,” she says. “My calling wasn’t to be in the military. This is my way of being able to serve the country.” Over the years, she worked her way up, through positions such as informatics specialist, deputy nurse executive, and director of clinical staff development. She began Read more

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      Interprofessional Education

      At USAHS, we’re developing healthcare practitioners who are skilled at communicating and collaborating harmoniously with team members from other disciplines. To that end, we have embraced interprofessional education (IPE) and have integrated IPE coursework and clinical simulation activities across our programs.
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      What’s the advantage of collaborative healthcare?

      Today’s patients often have complex problems that need attention from practitioners across disciplines. A siloed approach to patient care, where each practitioner treats in isolation, can lead to communication failure—a leading cause of serious medical error.The Joint Commission, “Patient Safety”: https://www.jointcommission.org/resources/patient-safety-topics/patient-safety/. In contrast, an interprofessional team approach is correlated with higher patient satisfaction ratings and better health outcomes.Scott Reeves et al., “Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes (update),” Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, March 28, 2013.

      To transform the culture of healthcare into a more collaborative environment, healthcare education has also needed to transform, moving steadily in recent years toward IPE.Jordan Utley et al., Interprofessional Education and Collaboration: An Evidence-Based Approach to Optimizing Health Care. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics, 2020.

      What is interprofessional education?

      According to the World Health Organization, interprofessional education is a style of teaching in which “two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.”World Health Organization (WHO), “Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice.” Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2010.

      In our IPE courses and activities, students practice delivering a holistic, collaborative approach to safe healthcare. Our students often remark that the most important thing they learn from their IPE courses is how to speak a common language free of discipline-specific terminologies.Jordan Utley et al., Interprofessional Education and Collaboration: An Evidence-Based Approach to Optimizing Health Care. Champaign, Illinois: Human Kinetics, 2020. IPE promotes mutual understanding and reduces hierarchies.Sabine Homeyer et al., “Effects of IPE for medical and nursing students: enablers, barriers and expectations for optimizing future IP collaboration—a qualitative study.” BMC Nursing, April 10, 2018. It also helps our students prepare to practice in the real world—or expand their skillset as professionals.

      How Does IPE Work at USAHS?

      IPE is core to our teaching methodology at USAHS. We have incorporated IPE, and we are expanding its reach across all University programs, through the following means:

      Curricula

      IPE aspects are integrated within each program, whether in didactic coursework, clinical simulations, or clinical immersion sessions (depending on the program). Activities center around four core competencies defined by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC). They are scaffolded so that students’ skills and knowledge build in a logical sequence.

      Simulation

      Our state-of-the-art clinical simulation centers give students the chance to practice interprofessional teamwork with their peers in other healthcare disciplines. For example, speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, and physical therapy students collaborate to treat patients within a simulated real-life professional and physical environment.

      Faculty

      Among the USAHS faculty are several champions who are passionate about IPE and who have spearheaded its success within the University. Our faculty are in the exciting position to influence the future of healthcare through the IPE activities they create. And they have made USAHS a thought leader within the space of interprofessional learning through simulation.

      Some Examples of IPE @ USAHS

      Virtual IPE simulations

      During the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty created several interprofessional clinical simulations that leveraged gaming technology, virtual escape rooms, and 360-degree virtual environments.

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      Interprofessional pro bono clinic

      On the USAHS campus in St. Augustine, Florida, PT and OT students collaborate on treating patients from the local community.

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      PTs working with OTs

      From their very first week of classes, our physical therapy and occupational therapy students work together in our clinical simulation labs—solving puzzles, reviewing charts, communicating with patients, and practicing clinical skills.

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      SLPs working with PTs and OTs

      In complex scenarios in our simulation labs, speech-language pathology students collaborate with their peers in our PT and OT programs, learning how to communicate with each other and treat the patient as a team.

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      The role of IPE in simulation

      At the International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) 2020, USAHS demonstrated our thought leadership in simulation for rehabilitative sciences education. Sixteen USAHS faculty and staff members presented about how they use simulation in laboratory courses, including in interprofessional team scenarios.

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      Collaborative tech tools

      The Double telepresence robots in our simulation centers enable interprofessional collaboration and remote consultation. Healthcare providers communicate with patients and team members through a robot that provides a human-like presence through a screen.

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      IPE in health sciences and nursing programs

      This post celebrates the launch of the first IPE course in our online post-professional programs in 2017. We now have several IPE courses within these programs.

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      • The Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program is also available at our Miami, FL, Austin, TX and San Marcos, CA campuses. Select a 2nd choice campus if you are open to another or all campuses.
      • The Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program is also available at our Austin, TX, Miami, FL and St. Augustine, FL campuses. Select a 2nd choice campus if you are open to another or all campuses.
      • The Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program is also available at our Miami, FL, St. Augustine, FL and San Marcos, CA campuses. Select a 2nd choice campus if you are open to another or all campuses.
      • The Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program is also available at our Austin, TX, Miami, FL, St. Augustine, FL and San Marcos, CA campuses. Select a 2nd choice campus if you are open to another or all campuses.
      • The Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program is also available at our Austin, TX, St. Augustine, FL and San Marcos, CA campuses. Select a 2nd choice campus if you are open to another or all campuses.
      • The Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) program is also available at our Miami, FL, Austin, TX and San Marcos, CA campuses. Select a 2nd choice campus if you are open to another or all campuses.
      • The Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) program is also available at our Austin, TX, Miami, FL and St. Augustine, FL campuses. Select a 2nd choice campus if you are open to another or all campuses.
      • The Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) program is also available at our Miami, FL, San Marcos, CA and St. Augustine, FL campuses. Select a 2nd choice campus if you are open to another or all campuses.
      • The Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) program is also available at our San Marcos, CA, Austin, TX and St. Augustine, FL campuses. Select a 2nd choice campus if you are open to another or all campuses.
      • The Flex Master of Occupational Therapy program is also available at our Austin, TX and Miami, FL campuses. Select a 2nd choice campus if you are open to being considered for additional campuses.
      • The Flex Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) program is also available at our Miami, FL and St. Augustine campuses. Select a 2nd choice campus if you are open to being considered for additional campuses.
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        The Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) program is also offered in a convenient Flex format (Online + Weekend Labs on campus). Check here if you're interested in hearing more about the Flex MOT currently offered in Miami, Austin and St. Augustine.
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