Description

Interprofessional activities are key to understanding teamwork and how different disciplines contribute to improving patient outcomes. When students practice as part of an interprofessional team, they perform better in patient care. Effective IPE events foster interdisciplinary collaboration, helping students understand how their work impacts other departments to improve care quality and outcomes, while enhancing their awareness of their discipline's role in collaborative care.

Briar Cliff University (BCU) and Western Iowa Tech Community College (WIT) offer interprofessional activities for students in nursing, social work, behavior analysis, PTA, DPT, OTA, OTD, and MHA programs. The information in this poster covers the events from 2019 through 2024.

Learning Objectives

1. Recognize how one’s own discipline contributes to effective communication, conflict resolution and positive interprofessional working relationships
2. Recognize one’s own discipline-specific limitations in skills, knowledge and abilities in providing patient/client/student services and seek out or identify appropriate complimentary professionals.

Speakers

Angela M. Johnson, EdD, MHA, LNHA
Assistant Professor, Business Administration, Briar Cliff University

Soren Long Grieve, PT, DPT
Assistant Professor, Health Science Academic Affairs, Briar Cliff University

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Recording date: July 17, 2025
Date of original release: July 17, 2025
Most recent review/update: July 17, 2025
Termination date: July 16, 2028