Jennifer
Jessen,
EdD, RN, CNOR, FNAP
Executive Director of CIPER; Associate Professor of Nursing
Creighton University
Dr. Jennifer Jessen is an Associate Professor of Nursing and Executive Director of CIPER at Creighton University. Her scholarship focuses on perioperative nursing, interprofessional education, emotional intelligence, and health equity. She holds an EdD in health professions education, an MSN in nursing education, and a BSN from Creighton. A Certified Perioperative Nurse (CNOR), she is a former Editor-in-Chief of the Creighton Journal of Collaborative Practice and Education and a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academies of Practice. Her work advances competency-based learning, simulation, and collaborative practice to improve outcomes in nursing and healthcare education.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Interprofessional education (IPE) assessment is inherently complex and prickly. Challenges arise from the need to analyze data across diverse health professions, various levels of learners, numerous learning environments (e.g. classroom, simulation, clinical practice) and in contexts where competence in teams and teamwork, rather than individual performance, are the focus of evaluation. This complexity is compounded by the wide range of learning activities used to meet interprofessional competencies and the substantial time required for faculty to meaningfully review large volumes of data. At…