Innovation Grant Awarded to Create Interprofessional Patient Discharge Simulation
Funding from the UIC-OSF Community Health Advocacy Program will allow a team of researchers that includes faculty from University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford to develop standardized simulation activities with the goal of helping new health profession students develop valuable skills in discharging patients. The hope is that such simulations and interprofessional education will translate to better patient care and will likely help reduce re-admissions and other adverse patient outcomes.
The principal investigators for the study are Dawn Mosher, DNP, RN, CHSE, an assistant professor at OSF Healthcare Saint Anthony College of Nursing in Rockford, and Radhika Sreedhar, MD, MS, FACPMS, an associate professor of clinical medicine at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago. Joining them from the UICOMR are Paul Chastain, PhD, a clinical associate professor and associate director of simulation events; Linda Chang, PharmD, BCPS, CDE, MPH, an associate professor of clinical family medicine; and Martin MacDowell, DrPH, MBA, MS, a research professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and associate director of health professions education for the National Center for Rural Health Professions who is also a research associate professor and associate director for curriculum development in the UIC College of Pharmacy Rockford Regional Pharmacy Program.
Community Health Advocacy (CHA) is a partnership between UIC and the Jump Simulation & Education Center at OSF HealthCare that brings together faculty researchers and health care professionals to develop innovative solutions to health-related problems in an urban community. The teams work together to hypothesize, test and redesign tools, techniques and processes used by caregivers every day to find new solutions aimed at improving access and quality of care.
Funding from the UIC-OSF Community Health Advocacy Program will allow a team of researchers that includes faculty from University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford to develop standardized simulation activities with the goal of helping new health profession students develop valuable skills in discharging patients. The hope is that such simulations and interprofessional education will translate to better patient care and will likely help reduce re-admissions and other adverse patient outcomes.