Jennifer
Evans,
DNP, RN, NC-BC, FNAP
Professor and Assistant Dean of Nursing
University of Southern Indiana
Dr. Jennifer L. Evans is a Professor and the Assistant Dean for Nursing at the University of Southern Indiana. She has led transformative curricular initiatives, championed interprofessional education, and contributed nationally recognized scholarship on academic leadership, succession planning, resilience, and well-being. A Certified Nurse Coach and Distinguished Fellow of the National Academies of Practice, Dr. Evans integrates coaching principles into faculty development and student mentorship, advancing collaborative practice and leadership capacity across health professions.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
This presentation will showcase how the AIHC Mentor Program created a safe and supportive environment to connect like-minded peers with shared common values. The program offered resources for both personal and professional development, while providing motivational support to advance interprofessional education (IPE) initiatives and academic-community partnerships. Mentorship and coaching afford participants the opportunity to reflect on activities through a new lens, thoughtfully question and reframe ideas, challenge traditional practices, develop innovative ideas, overcome roadblocks,…
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…
As healthcare systems continue to evolve, the need for sustainable leadership in interprofessional practice and education (IPE) has never been more urgent. High turnover, burnout, and an aging workforce threaten the continuity of interprofessional initiatives that are essential to improving health outcomes, especially in underserved and rural communities. This workshop offers a practical, inclusive, and outcomes-driven approach to succession planning as a strategic tool for sustaining interprofessional leadership.Participants will be introduced to strategies for succession planning that…