Background: Healthcare practice in acute care environments is multidimensional involving numerous practitioners in the care of patients.  The need for interprofessional, integrated care in acute care environments has never been greater, as post-pandemic patients have become more health literate.   Health profession’s education is siloed in many organizations, resulting in ineffective care delivery that fails to meet the complex needs of patients (Ojelabi et al., 2022).  Simulation based education (SBE) is an avenue to bring all types of health professionals together to learn with, about and from each other with the care of the patient at the center (CAIPE, 2023).  To be effective, SBE needs to be grounded in best practices, especially when considering interprofessional education (IPE).  The Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education HSSOBP^TM  (Rossler et al., 2021) provides a guide on how to develop IPE in a simulation-based context. At the Ottawa Hospital (TOH) we have successfully implemented SBE IPE into many of our education programs.

Description: Workshop participants will receive a short presentation on the Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education HSSOBP^TM and the Canadian National Interprofessional Competency framework (Collaborative, 2010), as well as the successes and challenges of the TOH Simulation Patient Safety Program.  This presentation will discuss how to use both references to create SBE IPE.  Participants will then move into small group work to develop a skeleton of an IPE simulation that would be applicable to their context with the support of the workshop facilitators.  All participants will regroup at the end of the workshop to share their learnings and discussion of next steps for their simulation teams.

Learning Objectives: Having participated in this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the importance of developing Interprofessional simulations based on best practices and applicable frameworks.
2. Develop a simulation scenario to be used for interprofessional education. 
3. Apply the Healthcare Simulation Standard of Best Practice: Simulation Enhanced Interprofessional Education.

 

References:

The Center for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education. (2023). Retrieved from: https://www.caipe.org/

Collaborative, C. I. H. (2010). A National Interprofessional Competency Framework. In Univerisity of British Columbia (Issue February).

Rossler, K., Molloy, M. A., Pastva, A. M., Brown, M., & Xavier, N. (2021). Healthcare Simulation Standards of Best PracticeTM Simulation-Enhanced Interprofessional Education. Clinical Simulation in Nursing, 58, 49–53. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecns.2021.08.015

Ojelabi, A.O., Ling, J., Roberts, D., & Hawkins, C. (2022). Does interprofessional education support integration of care services? A systematic review. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 28, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2022.100534