Abstract
Three of the Grand Challenges identified by the social work profession are specifically related to health care: healthy youth development, closing the health care gap, and advancing long and productive lives. Idaho State University (ISU) initiated a collaborative interprofessional health education project (IET) over 30 years ago. This collaborative includes ten health care disciplines across five colleges and provides in-depth assessment and referral to three families annually. This study describes the development of a collaborative, high impact, teaching exemplar, and examines the knowledge, perceptions, and competency of participating students using the framework of the IPEC competencies and the CSWE practice competencies for social work education. Results are derived from a pre-post survey administered during the previous two years. The project includes two groups of students: those that engaged in a hands-on experience with a client and those that only observed clients. The Observation-Only group completed the SPICE-R2 and the IEPS. Students that had direct interaction with clients completed the IEPS (pre-post engagement with clients) as well as the ICCAS. Attitudes, perceptions, and perceived competency improved amongst students participating in the IET course from pre-assessment to post-assessment with moderate to large effects being observed.
Highlights
Three of the Grand Challenges identified by the social work profession are related to health care: healthy youth development, closing the health care gap, and advancing long and productive lives
The IPEC values and competencies are consistent with social work values and education standards (Council on Social Work Education [CSWE], 2015; National Association of Social Workers [NASW], 2018)
This paper describes a long-standing model for interprofessional education in a rural region of the United States and presents the results of an evaluation of student attitudes related to interprofessional practice
Summary
Three of the Grand Challenges identified by the social work profession are related to health care: healthy youth development, closing the health care gap, and advancing long and productive lives. Interprofessional collaborative practice is defined as: the professional practice of two or more health/social care workers from different professional backgrounds working together with patients, their families, care providers and the community to deliver the highest quality care (Center for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education [CAIPE], 2019; Gilbert et al, 2010). In 2017 social work policy makers, practitioners, educators and leaders identified 12 Grand Challenges for social work practice (Nurius et al, 2017) Three of these Grand Challenges are especially important to rural, interprofessional practice: a) Ensuring healthy development for all youth; b) Closing the health gap; and c) Advancing long and productive lives (Nurius et al, 2017). Facilitating the development of competent interprofessional health/social care providers can effectively address these challenges and meet the needs of rural communities
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