Understanding one another’s roles and visualizing ways to capitalize on each other’s strengths is key to building an effective team. This section focuses on capacity building—both in the team-based care practice setting and in the community at large—to create working environments conducive to identifying community needs and making lasting systemic changes toward the reduction of health disparities.
1. Core Competencies for Primary Care Behavioral Health Integration: Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes
Utilizing the competency-based framework created by the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IEC), this module created by Connecticut AHEC provides learners with a cutting edge approach to understanding interprofessionality and interprofessional education to promote effective team-based practice in today’s healthcare arena.
2. ENHANCED CARE COORDINATION FOR HIGH NEEDS POPULATIONS FROM MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
This presentation from Northern NH AHEC uses case studies from a variety of target populations to highlight challenges and successes when serving clients in an integrated healthcare environment. This workshop will include an enhanced care coordination panel representing various Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) Regions.
3. RURAL HEALTH DELIVERY SYSTEM REFORM
Rural Health Information Hub (HRSA)
Special National Rural Health Day webcast of an expert panel discussing the effects of, and opportunities for, rural healthcare delivery system reform.
4. STUDY OF PHYSICIAN-NURSE COMMUNICATION PRACTICES
“Despite decades of research and interventions, poor communication between physicians and nurses continues to be a primary contributor to adverse events in the hospital setting and a major challenge to improving patient safety. The lack of progress suggests that it is time to consider alternative approaches with greater potential to identify and improve communication than those used to date. We conducted a formative evaluation to assess the feasibility, acceptability and utility of using video reflexive ethnography (VRE) to examine, and potentially improve, communication between nurses and physicians.”
Review of study in AAFP News (August 20, 2018): Study Shows Physicians, Nurses How They Talk to Each Other