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Interprofessional Practice, Minor

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The purpose of Â鶹´«Ã½'s interprofessional education minor program is to prepare you with the knowledge, attitudes and skills of interprofessional practice, which lead to:

  • Interprofessional collaborative patient/client-centered care
  • Optimal individual patient health outcomes
  • Improvements in community-level (population) health
  • Effective and efficient delivery of health care services
  • Advocacy for the improvement of health and health services

Curriculum Overview

This 16-credit minor is an elective option for undergraduate students interested in a career in health-related professions.

The IPE curriculum is designed to move students from understanding the need for and developing foundational skills in interprofessional practice to a broad understanding of the challenges in the health care system to provide equable access to high-quality health care, and coordinated, patient-centered care (±õ±Ê·¡Ìý2100 Interprofessional Collaboration and Healthcare in Global Context (3 cr)).

This foundation is then applied in the context of effective team-based care for individual patients (±õ±Ê·¡Ìý4200 Applied Decision-Making in Interprofessional Practice (3 cr)), improving community and population health outcomes (±õ±Ê·¡Ìý4900 Interprofessional Community Practicum (3 cr)) in the clinical setting (±õ±Ê·¡Ìý4905 Interprofessional Clinical Practicum (2 cr)), and to document the clinical outcomes of interprofessional collaborative practice and the impact on patient care and outcomes (°¿¸é·¡³§Ìý2320 Interprofessional Health Outcomes Research (2 cr)).

±á°ä·¡Ìý2010Foundations in Clinical Health Care Ethics3
±õ±Ê·¡Ìý2100Interprofessional Collaboration and Healthcare in Global Context3
±õ±Ê·¡Ìý4200Applied Decision-Making in Interprofessional Practice3
±õ±Ê·¡Ìý4900Interprofessional Community Practicum3
±õ±Ê·¡Ìý4905Interprofessional Clinical Practicum2
´Ç°ùÌý±·±«¸é³§Ìý4200 Nursing Immersion Practicum
°¿¸é·¡³§Ìý2320Interprofessional Health Outcomes Research2
´Ç°ùÌý±·±«¸é³§Ìý2700 Evidence Based Nursing
Total Credits16

Continuation Standards

Students must maintain a GPA of 2.00 in interprofessional coursework.

For more information about our Interprofessional Education program, including the concentration and minor in Interprofessional Practice, please email ipe@slu.edu.