Cheri
Friedrich,
DNP, APRN, CPNP-PC,IBCLC
Clinical Professor, Co-Director of Interprofessional Education / CPNP-PC Specialty Coordinator
University of Minnesota
Cheri Friedrich, DNP, CPNP-PC, IBCLC, FNAP is a Clinical Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing, where she coordinates the pediatric nurse practitioner area of study. She also serves as a Co-Director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Interprofessional Health. Dr. Friedrich draws on her years of experience as a primary care PNP and interprofessional team member to inform her teaching. Dr. Friedrich continues to maintain an active clinical practice in a Federally Qualified Health Care Center that serves the un- and under-insured children and their families in Anoka County.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
This seminar is designed to explore one large academic institution’s recent centralization of interprofessional efforts through the creation of a university-wide Center for Interprofessional Health. Participants will consider a variety of factors including institutional leadership buy-in, Center leadership models, faculty and staff roles in the Center, creation of an Executive Committee, strategic planning, curricular development, operational decision-making structures, branding, web and social media presence, and more. The journey and lessons learned in the implementation of the Center for…
Development and Implementation of a Criterion-based Interprofessional Education Experience Inventory
This lightning talk presents one large academic institution’s efforts to collect, categorize, and evaluate interprofessional education (IPE) experiences occurring across the University. Often, IPE activities within programs or schools may not be known to those implementing the centrally offered IPE program. After four prior unsuccessful attempts to collate such experiences, the author University’s Center for Interprofessional Health created a new approach to discover existing IPE activities, evaluate them against standard criteria, make them available to other schools, and track participation…
This lightning talk describes an innovative continuing education curriculum for health professionals to develop and apply the IPEC competencies in their roles as providers and preceptors within interprofessional clinical learning environments. Preceptors create powerful influences on their learners via modeling and the hidden curriculum (Bartlett et al, 2020). Considering the scope of this influence, there is minimal existing content created for preceptors to enhance their skills for interprofessional precepting (Barnes et al, 2017). This session will summarize the hybrid curriculum content…