title: Developing standardized patient clinical simulations to apply concepts of interdisciplinary collaboration.
abstract: Interdisciplinary collaboration and interprofessional education (IPE) are essential for transforming health care. Students in nurse practitioner (NP) programs have limited exposure to IPE. Simulated clinical experiences, based on social learning theory, provide a safe and realistic environment to expose NP students to interdisciplinary collaboration as a step toward developing IPE. Faculty at a large university school of nursing developed a formative standardized patient experience to provide NP students with two opportunities to synthesize a patient assessment, to share patient problem-solving strategies, and to succinctly communicate with other health care professionals. This pilot project provided insight to better develop IPE and identified a growing interest to collaborate in future projects with faculty from other health care disciplines.
authors.forename: Laura Warnock
authors.initials: LW
authors.lastname: Koo
authors.forename: Shannon Reedy
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Idzik
authors.forename: Margaret Bernadette
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Hammersla
authors.forename: Brenda Faye
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Windemuth
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000193:education*; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D016544:Patient Simulation; D010865:Pilot Projects; D018794:Problem-Based Learning