Penni
Watts,
PhD, RN, CHSE-A
Assistant Professor, School of Nursing; Assistant Director, Office of Interprofessional Curriculum
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
Dr. Penni Watts is the Assistant Director for Program Implementation in Office of Interprofessional Curriculum (OIPC) at UAB, and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing. Dr. Watts has extensive training in clinical simulation focusing on nursing and interprofessional experiences. She has expertise in simulation faculty development, simulation design and delivery, debriefing for IP groups, interprofessional course and curriculum design, and evaluation strategies for both simulation and interprofessional education. In addition, Dr. Watts has received the Presidential Excellence Award in Teaching from UAB and the INACSL Spirit of Leadership Award in Simulation.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Delivering IPE to large numbers of learners from multiple professions requires the participation of a large cohort of teachers in both the education and clinical settings. We will showcase and describe a model for implementing IPE across the institution by presenting our four step process, giving participants an opportunity to explore how strategies might be applied in their own institutions. Step 1 The Office of Interprofessional Curriculum (OIPC) teamed with the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) to develop a series of four workshops to give faculty tools and materials, related to the…
BackgroundEducation across health professions, rather than in silos, is essential to preparing future healthcare providers for team-based healthcare. A major challenge is how to involve distance learners in IP team activities. This poster documents progress and challenges encountered in engaging an interprofessional (IP) design team of students and faculty working in partnership, to develop an on-line IP Collaboratory course. DesignStudents, faculty and staff from six professions; medicine, public health, dentistry, occupational therapy, social work, and nursing, partnered with librarians…
BackgroundInterprofessional team-based training (IPTT) promotes positive attitudes towards working in IP teams and helps to create a “collaborative practice-ready” healthcare workforce. The challenge is to integrate IPTT learning experiences into university-wide clinical courses to cross all four IP collaborative competency sub-domains (IP values/ethics, recognition of roles and responsibilities, effective IP communication and teamwork) while also introducing participants to the concepts of the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH). DesignBuilding on earlier versions of our IPTT activity we…