Healthcare delivery is reliant on a team‐based approach, and interprofessional education (IPE) provides means by which such collaboration skills can be fostered prior to entering the workplace. IPE within healthcare programs has been associated with improved collaborative behavior, patient care satisfaction, reduced clinical error, diminished negative professional stereotypes. An intensive gross anatomy dissection course was created in 2009 facilitate at McMaster University. Data were...

Interprofessional education of pre-licensure students is viewed as an important precursor to developing healthcare professionals who are able work collaboratively.This study conducted a program evaluation innovative interprofessional communication skills initiative which incorporated problem-based learning, cooperative learning and standardized patients.The session consisted three-hour, faculty facilitated, interactive format in teams five eight met conduct interview with patient develop...

Caregivers of persons with dementia encounter particular challenges in their roles and often experience unmet needs for information emotional support. This article describes a qualitative descriptive study designed to explore the intervention telephone support such caregivers. Data were collected from both caregivers providers. Results revealed that met four specific caregivers: need (a) education, (b) referral and/or assistance required navigate through system, (c) support, (d) caregiver is...

Several studies have shown significant improvements in the attitudes and perceptions of healthcare professional students toward interprofessional education (IPE) immediately following intervention with IPE courses. However, there remains little evidence on lasting effects courses long‐term influences these experiences are poorly documented. The purpose this study is to assess an intensive, ten‐week gross anatomy dissection course at McMaster University. Attitudes past participants towards...

As the delivery of health care becomes more complex and challenging, need for all professionals to collaborate as a team has been identified. Nurses are an integral part team, so it is critical that their education prepare them interprofessional collaborative practice. Although many academic settings currently offering (IPE) in form compulsory elective activities courses, may not be enough nor option programs with large volumes students who distributed across variety sites locations. This...

Objective: Staffing models employing registered nurses (RNs) and practical (RPN) have created the opportunity for enhanced collaboration in acute care settings. However, little is understood about how these collaborate factors that influence their collaboration. The purpose of this pilot study was to examine influenced among RNs RPNs at one hospital Canada order understand improve nursing collaborative practice.Methods: Using an explanatory, sequential mixed methods design, data were...

Many academic settings offer interprofessional education (IPE) experiences that are of short duration and situated in safe, controlled environments such as classrooms or simulation labs. The purpose this study was to examine the effects a 10-week IPE strategy incorporated into final clinical practicum BScN program. A mixed methods design chosen, belief qualitative data would help explain quantitative from pre-test/post-test (n = 268). Quantitative results revealed participants disagreed more...

Background: Understanding the experience of prodromal ischemic cardiac pain and associated symptoms through use literary visual art evokes heightened a wareness emotional journey.Aims The aim this study was to describe initial early pain-related feelings with adjusting new health concern explore subjective coming realization awareness developing heart disease.Materials Methods This is secondary supplemental qualitative analysis, using an arts-based embodied layered exploration assisted...

Nursing students occupy a unique perspective in clinical settings because they are informed, through education, about how patient care ought to happen. Given the brevity of placements and their “visiting status” sites, less invested ethos specific sites. Subsequently, perspectives quality informed by what should happen, which might differ from that nurses patients. The purpose this study was identify predominant themes care, as experienced students, influence these observations have on...

This study used hermeneutic phenomenology to explore the meaning that seven Canadian midlife women give experience of their changing bodies in relation food, body function, and leisure. Findings emerge from in-depth, semi-structured research conversations reveal these have a contentious relationship with eating arises an awareness what they choose eat today will impact how feel tomorrow. The this fatigue as consequence food decisions, which then negatively impacts leisure participation....

Healthcare delivery is reliant on a team‐based approach. Interprofessional education (IPE) provides means by which such collaboration skills can be fostered. IPE within healthcare programs has been associated with many benefits, including improvements in patient care and satisfaction, reducing clinical error rates, diminishing negative professional stereotypes. In recognition of the need for IPE, an IP gross anatomy dissection course was founded at McMaster University 2009. Data collected...

Interprofessional education (IPE) within health care programs has been shown to improve patient and satisfaction, reduce clinical error rates, collaborative team behaviour, diminish negative professional stereotypes. In recognizing this need for IPE as well the universal commonality interest in gross anatomy, an IP cadaveric dissection elective was instituted at McMaster University 2008 run annually. This 10 week, problem‐based learning anatomy carried out by teams consisting of students...

An intensive interprofessional gross anatomy dissection course was created in 2009 to facilitate education (IPE) at McMaster University. First year students from Medicine, Nursing, Midwifery, Physician Assistant, Occupational Therapy, and Physiotherapy programs were randomly assigned into four teams for this 10‐week course. Previously, data collected 2011 2016 using a before/after design measure differences attitudes perceptions towards IPE collaboration the revised Readiness...