Healthcare students interprofessional critical event/disaster response course.
Healthcare students interprofessional critical event/disaster response course.
Am J Disaster Med. 2017 Winter;12(1):11-26
Authors: Kim TE, Shankel T, Reibling ET, Paik J, Wright D, Buckman M, Wild K, Ngo E, Hayatshahi A, Nguyen LH, Denmark TK, Thomas TL
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Numerous disasters confirm the need for critical event training in healthcare professions. However, no single discipline works in isolation and interprofessional learning is recognized as a necessary component. An interprofessional faculty group designed a learning curriculum crossing professional schools.
DESIGN: Faculty members from four healthcare schools within the university (nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and medicine) developed an interdisciplinary course merging both published cross-cutting competencies for critical event response and interprofessional education competencies.
SETTING: Students completed a discipline-specific online didactic course. Interdisciplinary groups then participated in a 4-hour synchronous experience. This live course featured high-fidelity medical simulations focused on resuscitation, as well as hands-on modules on decontamination and a mass casualty triage incorporating moulaged standardized patients in an active shooter scenario.
PARTICIPANTS: Participants were senior students from allied health, medicine, nursing, and pharmacy.
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Precourse and postcourse assessments were co...
Source: American Journal of Disaster Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Am J Disaster Med Source Type: research
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