In my first placement at South Shore Regional Hospital in the outpatient department I was invited to participate in a student IPHE program run by the stroke unit. It involved a one hour weekly group meeting of the students involved and two team leaders as facilitators. The group was made up of a nursing student, a dietary student, an SLP student, a pharmacy intern, and two physiotherapy students (me and a classmate). For the first three weeks we were presented a case of a current inpatient who had suffered a recent stroke or had multiple chronic conditions. We discussed the case, noting important details and defining terms or the importance of certain measures that fell under our scope for the rest of the group. We would discuss which aspects of the case would involve more than one profession and how they would work together to assess or make use of that information. We determined what other information it would be good to have and how that would inform our treatment plan. We then developed a preliminary treatment plan that would span approximately a week. At the beginning of the next week we were provided an update on the patient and a description of the treatment that had been done. We then moved on to the new case for that week. For the last three weeks were worked with the same patient case each week (who some of us had a chance to actually work with and brought those experiences to the table), discussing the changes in their function, medications, treatment, and discharge plan. We developed a plan to progress treatment and reassessed goals. On the last day we presented this case to our preceptors, the head of the stroke team, and the leader of IPHE education for the hospital. The presentation was done using power point, with each of us discussing how our profession was involved with this patient throughout the treatment process

In my first placement at South Shore Regional Hospital in the outpatient department I was invited to participate in a student IPHE program run by the stroke unit. It involved a one hour weekly group meeting of the students involved and two team leaders as facilitators. The group was made up of a nursing student, a dietary student, an SLP student, a pharmacy intern, and two physiotherapy students (me and a classmate). For the first three weeks we were presented a case of a current inpatient who had suffered a recent stroke or had multiple chronic conditions. We discussed the case, noting important details and defining terms or the importance of certain measures that fell under our scope for the rest of the group. We would discuss which aspects of the case would involve more than one profession and how they would work together to assess or make use of that information. We determined what other information it would be good to have and how that would inform our treatment plan. We then developed a preliminary treatment plan that would span approximately a week. At the beginning of the next week we were provided an update on the patient and a description of the treatment that had been done. We then moved on to the new case for that week. For the last three weeks were worked with the same patient case each week (who some of us had a chance to actually work with and brought those experiences to the table), discussing the changes in their function, medications, treatment, and discharge plan. We developed a plan to progress treatment and reassessed goals. On the last day we presented this case to our preceptors, the head of the stroke team, and the leader of IPHE education for the hospital. The presentation was done using power point, with each of us discussing how our profession was involved with this patient throughout the treatment process from admission to discharge and what aspects of assessment and treatment we needed to collaborate on.

By: Meaghan Peters (Class of 2014)