Collaborative Falls Prevention: Interprofessional Team Formation, Implementation, and Evaluation
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This project was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant UB4HP19057, titled “Oregon Geriatric Education Center.”
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Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing
Document Type
Citation
Publication Date
12-2016
Abstract
As health care rapidly evolves to promote person-centered care, evidence-based practice, and team-structured environments, nurses must lead interprofessional (IP) teams to collaborate for optimal health of the populations and more cost-effective health care. Four professions-nursing, medicine, social work, and pharmacy-formed a teaching team to address fall prevention among older adults in Oregon using an IP approach. The teaching team developed training sessions that included interactive, evidence-based sessions, followed by individualized team coaching. This article describes how the IP teaching team came together to use a unique cross-training approach to teach each other. They then taught and coached IP teams from a variety of community practice settings to foster their integration of team-based falls-prevention strategies into practice. After coaching 25 teams for a year each, the authors present the lessons learned from the teaching team's formation and experiences, as well as feedback from practice team participants that can provide direction for other IP teams.
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DOI
10.3928/00220124-20161115-07
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/26918
Citation Details
Lasater, K., Cotrell, V., McKenzie, G., Simonson, W., Morgove, M. W., Long, E. E., & Eckstrom, E. (2016). Collaborative falls prevention: Interprofessional team formation, implementation, and evaluation. Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 47(12), 545-550.
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