IPE ESCAPE ROOMS UNDERWAY

During Summer 2022, two previous graduate students worked with the Office of IPE&P to create Escape Rooms as interactive activities. Donna Murray and Dr. Rita Gengo, who is now nursing faculty, used the Storyline by Articulate software to develop a virtual Escape Room based on a submarine expedition. They used IPE concepts to create puzzles and other interactive activities for students participating in the Foundational Level program as an ice breaker. The students appreciated having the opportunity to connect with members of their interprofessional teams in a fun educational manner. The Escape Room allows students to further develop their teamwork abilities and critical thinking skills to demonstrate mastery of concepts. This particular activity aims to achieve the following objectives:

• Describe the roles and responsibilities of interprofessional healthcare team members.
• Apply Interprofessional Education and Collaboration competencies.
• Collaborate with other healthcare professionals to promote safe, quality care.
• Utilize communication tools and techniques to respond to challenges to interprofessional practice.
• Display teamwork, critical thinking, and communication skills.

COMMUNITY ENGAGED PARTNERSHIPS

After a decade of collaboratively providing interprofessional education, Florida Atlantic University and Palm Beach Atlantic University, identified a need to focus on the clinical learning environments where the students and faculty have an opportunity to model the interprofessional competencies in practice. Responding to this need, the two institutions worked to list the clinical sites for each of our health professional students. Using GIS mapping software, we identified clinical sites where two or more professions were already present. This nexus provides a forum in which there are opportunities to educate healthcare providers regarding team-based care, and for students to serve as catalyst/agents of change within these clinical environments.

We are hopeful that this process of heat mapping will lay the foundation for a unique interprofessional approach to enhancing clinical learning environments. This novel strategy in highlighting sites across two academic institutions where multiple professions are present, offers an opportunity to improve patient care through localized and targeted interprofessional education. After presenting this work at the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Summit in Fall of 2022, we connected with the Center’s leadership to participate in their IPE Core Data Set and Information Exchange for Knowledge Generation initiative. This will provide us with additional information and data to evaluate the effectiveness of our interprofessional education and improve our programming.