title: Attitudes of Nurse and Physician trainees towards an interprofessional simulated education experience on Pain Assessment and Management.
abstract: An interprofessional group of educators from multiple institutions piloted a simulation-based learning experience focusing on acute pain management. The participants in the program were resident physicians-novice nurse dyads, and medical student-nursing student dyads from large universities and a magnet health care system. Each dyad was challenged to assess and manage acute pain in a simulated hospitalized patient using effective collaboration skills. The simulations included pre-debriefing, simulation, and a debriefing session. Participants completed pre- and post-surveys measuring confidence in pain management and attitudes toward physician-nurse collaboration. There was a significant positive shift in the confidence of the learners' ability to assess and manage acute pain in a hospitalized patient after the simulation and debriefing (23.2% strongly agreed versus 7% at baseline). Participants' attitudes regarding education to enhance interprofessional collaboration improved after the simulation experience (83.9% strongly agreed versus 73.7% at baseline). Based on these encouraging findings, we are extending this interprofessional experience to a larger group of learners with the same targeted dyads.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Christiana Care Health System , Newark, DE , USA and.
authors.forename: Tabassum
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Salam
authors.forename: Jennifer L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Saylor
authors.forename: Amy Lynn
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Cowperthwait
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D000068156:Formative Feedback; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D059408:Pain Management / Q000379:methods*; D010147:Pain Measurement / Q000379:methods*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D016544:Patient Simulation; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Communication; interdisciplinary; interprofessional education; team-based care; teamwork