JMU has developed the IPE designation for stand-alone academic courses that have been reviewed by the IPE and IDE Council and approved through the university curriculum process. The courses listed in this section generate between 1 and 3 credit hours and at this time, are all undergraduate courses. The IPE designation allows students to have a clear record of their interprofessional coursework at James Madison University.
Current Courses
- Names/Units of Collaborating Team: Kathy Guisewite, MA (adjunct faculty)
- Number of Credits: 1
- Duration of Event: Three 3-hour sessions over one semester and weekly 2-hour service learning
- Student Involvement: Undergraduate
- Number of Students Involved: Up to 40 each semester
- IPEC/IDE Competencies/Domains Addressed: Values and Ethics, Roles and Responsibilities, Communication, and Teamwork
- Date(s) Offered: One section in the fall and the spring semester
Description: Pairs of students are assigned a CCN family managing caregiving responsibilities, defined as social interaction, for an elder member (age 60+ years) and provide planned contact and support. This course is intended to benefit all participants (family caregivers, their care-receiving members and students) by offering an academic and service-focused experience that validates the common need for human connection, understanding and respect. Paired up in interprofessional teams, students bring their own perspective into the planning of the activities for the weekly visits. Furthermore, following the observation and engagement with a person with dementia, learners identify profession that may be missing in the team but would be helpful to include in the team if that was possible.
Publications: None at this time.
- Names/Units of Collaborating Team: Michelle Hesse, PhD, RD (Dietetics), Hyun Kang, PhD (Social Work), Kimberly Priode, PhD, RN, CNE, CCRN (Nursing)
- Number of Credits: 1
- Duration of Event: Four 3-hour sessions over one semester
- Student involvement: Undergraduate
- Number of Students Involved: 50+ per section, 3 sections per year
- IPEC/IDE Competencies/Domains Addressed: Values and Ethics, Roles and Responsibilities, Teamwork, Communication
- Date(s) Offered: 2 sections in the fall, 1 section in the spring semesters
Description: This experiential course utilizes the IPEC (2023) competencies, with a focus on ethical decision-making, as a framework for this experiential course for undergraduate students preparing for careers in healthcare. Students work in interprofessional teams to learn about each other’s body of knowledge and scope of practice through reflecting on their personal/professional values and exploring complex health dilemmas. In addition to working in teams, lectures and readings provide a foundation for understanding collaborative practice, learning about team process and conflict mediation, and building communication and teamwork skills. The final assignment to develop an interprofessional intervention that addresses a community health need provides the opportunity to practice skills in each of the four IPEC (2023) competencies and facilitate an integrated interprofessional identity.
Publications:
Akerson, E., Stewart, A., Baldwin, J., Gloeckner, J., Bryson, B., & Cockley, D. (2014). Got Ethics? Exploring the Value of Interprofessional Collaboration Through a Comparison of Discipline Specific Codes of Ethics. MedEdPORTAL. https://doi.org/10.15766/mep_2374-8265.9331
McGuire, L., Stewart, A., Akerson, E., & Gloeckner, J. (2020). Developing an Integrated Interprofessional Identity for Collaborative Practice. Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, 20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjep.2020.100350
- Names/Units of Collaborating Team: Emily Akerson (Nursing-IIHHS), Lisa McGuire (Social Work) and Anne Stewart (Graduate Psychology
- Number of Credits: 1
- Duration of Event: Online asynchronous class in second block
- Student Involvement: Undergraduate, Junior level in CHBS
- Number of Students Involved: Up to 35 each semester
- IPEC/IDE Competencies/Domains Addressed: Values and Ethics, Roles and Responsibilities, Communication, and Teamwork
- Date(s) Offered: Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021
Description: This one-credit course introduces an interprofessional trauma-informed approach for students in the health professions. Trauma-informed approaches are relevant to all health professions and throughout the course you will reflect on the roles of diverse professions in promoting health and healing at an individual, family and community level. The course will identify the principles of interprofessional education and collaboration, discuss the definition of trauma, identify the incidence of trauma across populations served by a diverse group of professionals/disciplines, name theoretical perspectives that support a trauma-informed approach, illustrate the biopsychosocial impact of trauma, discuss the intersectionality of trauma with social determinants of health (including race, gender, social economic status, and other factors).
The course will use selected case material to illustrate the importance of interprofessional collaboration in a trauma-informed approach. Reflective writing, case discussions, and quizzes are key elements of the course evaluation and will be used to assess knowledge and understanding of an interprofessional trauma-informed approach, informed by the four interprofessional core competencies of Values/Ethics for Interprofessional Practice, Roles/Responsibilities of Interprofessional Teams, Interprofessional Communication, and Teams and Teamwork.
Given the potentially emotionally activating topic of the course, we are following the NCTIC Trauma Curriculum Instructor’s Guidance highlighted in SAMHSA’s Trauma-Informed Approach: Key Assumptions and Principles. Specifically, we encourage the practice self-care throughout the course. Depending on your own history, you are encouraged to create a self-care plan to use (and also consider the appropriateness of the class for you at this time). To foster collaborative connections, students are placed in small groups that will continue throughout the class. Each online, asynchronous module includes an assignment inviting reflection on course topics, including discussion expectations with the in-class interprofessional team of students. All faculty members are available for consultation.
Publications: None at this time.
MSC 4101
235 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807
