Bonnie
Decker,
EdD, OTR/L, FAOTA
Associate Professor
Gannon University
Bonnie Decker, EdD, OTR/L, FAOTA, an OT with over 40 years of pediatric clinical experience, is an Associate Professor in the Doctor of Occupational Therapy program at Gannon University, Ruskin, Florida. Dr. Decker teachers pediatric and research content in the OTD program. She has been on many succesful multi and interdisciplinary teams as a clinician. She is passionate about facilitating clinical reasoning and team collaboration with all students.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: Physician Assistant, Physical Therapy, and Occupational Therapy students participated in Tone Day: A Collaborative IPE experience, working as interprofessional teams to best manage simulated patients with tone dysfunction. Design: Students dispersed into pre-assigned groups where they collaborated to best manage patient/client cases. Cases provided information on patient/client roles, functions, and goals. Prompts were designed to facilitate collaborative considerations of medical and therapeutic interventions. Results: Student groups again demonstrated improved competencies in…