Melissa
Craft, PhD, APRN-CNS, AOCN
Melissa Craft PhD ARPN-CNS AOCN is an Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist and Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Administration and Graduate Education and Director of the PhD Program at the OUHSC College of Nursing. She is active in interprofessional education as well as professional and community service. She is the recipient of the Oklahoma Nurses Association’s Excellence in Nursing: APRN Education Award, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists’ Brenda Lyons Leadership Award, and the Inaugural Chair of the Clinical Nurse Specialist Institute. Her life-long work centers on enhancing care for oncology patients and optimizing professional opportunities for nurses.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
To optimize the interprofessional clinical learning environment (IP-CLE) in ambulatory care and provide quality interprofessional education based on the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies, effective systems and processes should ideally include: 1) an intentional working agreement established by the learners before delivery of care in the IP-CLE, 2) a patient-centered approach to establish and prioritize mutual goals during interprofessional practice (IPP), 3) deliberate reflection on the working agreement to promote constructive revisions between sessions of care…
Background: Interprofessional practice (IPP) requires diverse learners to organize as a team. Didactic and episodic experiences may not provide learners with skills to establish/advance teamwork in practice. A model which requires students establish “ground rules” for team-based care delivery and provides faculty-led reflection can support skill development while addressing Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies. Our specific aims include assessment of student perceptions after participation in this model using a validated interprofessional survey and a quantitative/…
Missing from our campus interprofessional education programming initiatives was a vital voice: the student. Quality interprofessional education, intended to meet accreditation standards, requires inclusion of the learner as team member. The purpose of this solution-orientated presentation is to describe a method of student engagement by which other institutions can provide better education in practice through organizing or augmenting their student-led initiatives. This model is of significance to the field of interprofessional education because it provides a framework for the development,…