Working Smarter Not Harder: A Quality Improvement Project to Improve an Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Rotation (QI642)

As palliative care continues to grow, teams may be stretched with both increasing patient care loads and increasing interest from learners seeking experience in palliative care. Therefore, strategies are needed to provide effective palliative care education as efficiently as possible. Members of the interdisciplinary palliative care team at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics serve as co-preceptors for an average of 69 multidisciplinary learners per year. Because each discipline and level of learner has a different rotation length and schedule, we observed a need to repeat many teaching activities in a single month.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Source Type: research