Browsing by Subject "Health Care"

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    Data Report: 2012 Indiana Mental Health Professional Licensure Survey
    (2014-10) Sheff, Zachary T.; Maxey, Hannah L.; Barclay, Jonathan C.; Banti, Sudha
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    Indiana Primary Health Care: Description, Distribution, Challenges, and Strategic Recommendation to Empowered Decision Making
    (2012-12) Maxey, Hannah L.; Malcolm, Amber; Norwood, Connor W.; Sheff, Zachary; Walters, Staci Jo
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    Next generation -- the key to sustainable health care?
    (TEDxIndianapolis (http://www.tedxindianapolis.com/), 2014-10-21) Oruche, Ukamaka M.
    This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Volunteers from the United States commit thousands of hours in medical missions annually to people across the globe. I’ve led volunteers to Nigeria for 10 years. How to provide sustained health care services over the long haul is our most difficult challenge. A shift from short-term to long-term provision of health care services is needed. Fully engaging the next generation of adults in the United States and the recipient countries is the key to this effort. Their openness to cultural diversity and fresh ideas will be critically important to ensuring sustainable health care.
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    A People-Centered Approach to Improving Interprofessional Communication in Health Care
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2016-04-08) Wada, Terri; Napier, Pamela; Crain, J. Brian; LaMothe, Julie; Hendricks, Sue; Stull, Kellie; Sweeney, Jennifer; Syed-Adeel, Zaidi
    As part of the objectives stated under the Interprofessional Collaborative Practices (IPCP) Model funded through a grant with the Health Resources and Services Administration and Indiana University School of Nursing, it was necessary to better understand the challenges around interprofessional communication across a hospital unit. To carry out this objective, research consultants from Collabo Creative, a design research company, partnered with the Renal Metabolic (B5C5) unit at IU Health Methodist. The main purpose for connecting design researchers with B5C5 was to assist the unit in utilizing a people-centered design approach in order to: 1) understand the current context of interprofessional collaboration and communication, 2) frame pertinent communication design challenges; and 3) develop solutions to improve interprofessional collaboration and communication across the B5C5 unit. Resulting from the 8-month research engagement, Collabo Creative and B5C5 identified four core challenges to interprofessional communication that appear to be relevant to other hospital units in addition to B5C5. These challenges include: 1) patient handoff of information; 2) doctor and patient two-way communication; 3) employee tensions as a result of PCA training; and 4) night-shift inclusion in plan of care. This poster will describe the people-centered design approach and methods that were used to engage B5C5, along with key findings and newly developed interprofessional communication tools resulting from the research project.
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    Policy Report: 2012 Indiana Mental Health Workforce
    (2014-11) Maxey, Hannah L.; Norwood, Connor W.
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    Using Critical Race Theory: An Analysis Of Cultural Differences In Healthcare Education
    (Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education, 2003) Coello, Helena M.; Casanas, Jorge A.; Rocco, Tonette S.; Parsons, Michael D.
    Critical Race Theory (CRT) was used as a lens of analysis to examine cultural competency in healthcare. Fourteen articles were found related to race/ethnicity and equity. Four themes emerged from our thematic analysis, which were cultural differences, access to healthcare, healthcare disparities, and healthcare education. It is evident that disparities do exist within healthcare and vary among cultures. The healthcare industry must continue to address issues of race, ethnicity and equity through cultural competency. Although there is no simple solution to achieve cultural competency, it can be fostered within healthcare practitioners and education to change the way different cultures are viewed. Healthcare institutions and healthcare professionals must bridge the gaps that still exist between individuals to provide fair, equal and impartial care.
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    Working With Interdisciplinary Teams Of Boundary Spanners: The Challenges And Potential For Adult Education
    (Midwest Research-to-Practice Conference in Adult, Continuing, and Community Education, 2003) Wise, Meg; Glowacki-Dudka, Michelle
    Innovative research and development for holistic adult on-line health education (eHealth) is increasingly conducted by interdisciplinary teams of boundary spanners in grant-funded academic institutes. Typically, these teams include fields that represent the whole person with an illness in their social and technological context: medicine, nursing, social and counseling psychology, social work, systems engineering, and the communications and information sciences. However, adult education does not typically sit at these collaborative research tables. This paper uses a case example of a sole adult educator working in such a setting to explore how adult education fits into this new boundary-spanning field of practice and scholarship.