Date of Conferral

2021

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Nursing

Advisor

Janice M. Long

Abstract

Nursing students who are provided interprofessional education (IPE) with students from other professional education programs develop interprofessional collaboration competencies (IPCCs). However, not all nursing programs provide this IPE experience despite the World Health Organization and the IPE Collaborative (IPEC) promoting IPCCs for nurses upon entering practice to improve health outcomes. The purpose of this quantitative, comparative, descriptive study, guided by the IPEC framework for collaboration competencies, was to determine whether there are self-reported differences in IPCCs among nurses who graduated within the past 3 years from learning institutions that provide IPE with multiple health care professional programs and those who graduated from learning institutions that provide IPE with silo nursing programs. A sample of 101 newly graduated nurses (NGNs) responded to the IPEC competencies self-assessment survey that measured IPCCs in the two domains of interprofessional values and interprofessional interactions. A Mann–Whitney U test revealed a significant mean difference in interprofessional interactions (mean rank 65, U = 635, p < 0.01) for NGNs from schools with IPE with multiple health care professional programs compared to schools with only nursing programs (mean rank 43). No significant differences were seen among the interprofessional values domain for the two groups. Future studies may compare results of the current study with larger populations or with nurses in practice. The results of this study promote positive social change by encouraging nursing programs and health care organizations to create partnerships to increase IPE interactions and thereby improve health care outcomes.

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