Rising maternal death rates in the United States necessitates the improvement in quality of care for postpartum patients. Health outcomes are improved by interprofessional practice and collaborative communication. Simulated postpartum complications with healthcare students improved interprofessional communication, and prepared future professionals to increase the quality of postpartum care. Nursing and physician assistant students participated in an event that included two…

Background:Racism in healthcare is a persistent problem that can manifest as overt discrimination or subtly as implicit biases. Historically, systemic racism in healthcare has caused trauma among certain racialized groups and structural barriers to health access further perpetuate racial inequities and disparities. Consequently, people of color experience increased morbidity and mortality. Because racism in healthcare is rarely addressed in traditional curricula, five students from the…

Background• Unity Clinic is the student-run, faculty facilitated interprofessional clinical experience at the University of Oklahoma.• Unity’s mission is to promote clinical interprofessional collaboration between current and future healthcare providers while delivering patient-centered, high-quality health care to under-served populations of Oklahoma.• Unity at Crossings provides team-based primary care services to under-served and underinsured populations in the Oklahoma…

Background. Avoidance of important cultural dialogs among behavioral health clinicians lead to worse treatment outcomes. Additionally, the quality of training in cultural humility for doctoral psychology trainees is also inconsistent. This project examined the effectiveness of a cultural humility workshop for behavioral health consultant trainees in primary care on trainee’s self-rated perceptions of cultural humility. Approach. In this project, we compared pre- and postscores on self-…

The hospice interprofessional team is partially regulated by Medicare, but more frequently, additional members are being added to the interprofessional team for holistic care and symptom management. Hospice chaplains, music therapists, and massage therapists care for different aspects of hospice patients when compared to the better known nurses and physicians. The purpose of this research is to explore the role of the hospice chaplain, music therapist, and massage therapist on the hospice…