Winter 2016 IPHE
Collaborative Care Planning Simulation For Individuals Post Stroke Exhibit at CHEB Open House
By: Jocelyn Adams, Communications & Special Projects Assistant
This fall, Dalhousie University celebrated its grand opening of the newly constructed Collaborative Health Education Building (CHEB) on the corner of University and Summer Street in Halifax. Collaborative heath education isn’t new to the Faculties of Health Professions and Medicine. To illustrate the on-going collaborative health education, the Schools of Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy exhibited on a recent interprofessional health event titled, Collaborative Care Planning Simulation For Individuals Post Stroke at the CHEB’s Open House on December 1, 2015.
The simulation included collaboration between the Schools of Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Dalhousie’s Faculty of Medicine, the Dalhousie Learning Resource Centre and the Nova Scotia’s Health Authority. Participants included students from Dalhousie’s Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy, Medicine and Nursing.
The rationale behind this simulation was interprofessional and interactive simulated client experiences and virtual clients have been shown to be more effective than written case scenarios in developing clinical reasoning and decision-making skills among health profession students. The purpose was for interprofessional teams to discover the effects of their collective decision-making on a simulated client in a real time scenario.
In summary, the simulation extended over a three-hour period and included eight stations;
The first station was ‘Getting Started.’ In this station students were given a case study, discussed the case and started planning for the client interaction (4:00-4:25 p.m.).
The second station was ‘Interaction with Simulated Client Based on Time 1 Findings.’ In this station, the interprofessional team met and interviewed the simulated client. Each team member had the opportunity to work with the client individually or with another discipline (4:25-4:55 p.m.).
The third station was ‘Creating An Interprofessional Care Plan & Timeline.’ In this station the interprofessional teams established short-term goals with treatment intervention and created a daily treatment timeline for the next seven days (4:55-5:20 p.m.).
The forth station included a ‘Team Supper’ for the students, while ‘Faculty Created Time 2 Findings and Chart’ (5:20-6:00 p.m.).
The fifth station was ‘Time 2 Chart Updated.’ Each team received and discussed the updated chart findings at Time 2 (6:00-6:10 p.m.).
The sixth station was ‘Time 2 Client Interaction.’ In this station the teams determined the simulated client’s status was not improving (6:10-6:20 p.m.).
The seventh station was ‘The Client Debrief,’ where the client provided the teams with feedback on what worked (6:20-6:30).
The final station was a ‘Large Debrief,’ where students, faculty and the simulated clients discussed in a large group what worked, what didn’t work, what they had not considered (6:30-7:00 p.m.).
In conclusion, students and faculty were provided with an evaluation of the IPHE event. From the learner’s perspective, students rated 13 components/attributes using clicker feedback and a five-point scale from ‘strong disagree’ to ‘strongly agree.’ In summary, all components were rated favourably. Faculty addressed the IPHE competencies and provided safe consequence-based learning opportunities, challenged discipline specific and interprofessional knowledge/ competencies and real-time decision-making practice.
The School recognizes the following individuals for their contribution to this collaborative health education simulation:
Faculty of Health Professions
- Diane MacKenzie (Occupational Therapy, Dalhousie)
- Brenda Merritt (Occupational Therapy, Dalhousie)
- Gail Creaser (Physiotherapy, Dalhousie)
- Kim Sponagle (Pharmacy, Dalhousie)
- Kim Hebert (Nursing, Dalhousie)
- Cynthia Barkhouse-MacKeen (Nursing, Dalhousie)
Faculty of Medicine
- Gordon Gubitz (Medicine, Neurology)
Dalhousie Learning Resource Centre
- Doug Ferkol
Nova Scotia Health Authority
- Joy Boyce (Department of Occupational Therapy, Nova Scotia Health Authority)
- Amira Tawashy (Department of Occupational Therapy, Nova Scotia Health Authority)
- Alison McDonald (Department of Physiotherapy, Nova Scotia Health Authority)
- Mark MacKenzie (Department of Physiotherapy, Nova Scotia Health Authority)
This simulation between the Faculties of Health Professions, Medicine, the Dalhousie Resource Centre and the Nova Scotia Health Authority illustrates the future opportunities and benefits of Dalhousie’s new Collaborative Health Education Building.