Hursman Allison, Richter Lisa M, Frenzel Jeanne, Viets Nice Joni, Monson Elizabeth
School of Pharmacy, North Dakota State University, United States.
J Interprof Educ Pract. 2022 Dec;29:100545. doi: 10.1016/j.xjep.2022.100545. Epub 2022 Aug 13.
Effective teamwork in the online environment is essential to patient care and safety. The need for training health professionals to work together on a virtual interprofessional team has become even more important since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic as telehealth, or the provision of virtual healthcare to patients, has become more common. This resource describes the development of an online escape room activity using free online resources. The activity aimed to enhance health profession students' abilities to communicate effectively, work together to complete a task, and develop knowledge of the unique roles of healthcare team members in a course dedicated to interprofessional education. Teams of five to seven students met online and completed seven puzzles to escape a virtual room. Results obtained from the pre-post surveys of 176 students across six disciplines showed the activity aided in increasing participants perceptions of their ability to communicate respectfully and work together to complete a task, while developing knowledge of the unique roles of members of the healthcare team, all components of the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) Core Competencies. This activity lays the groundwork for collaborative, interprofessional activities, such as telehealth, which students will be exposed to in their futures, and the results infer that the activity can help to build collaboration among team members, even team members that are not in the same physical space.
在在线环境中开展有效的团队合作对于患者护理和安全至关重要。自新冠疫情爆发以来,培训卫生专业人员在虚拟跨专业团队中协同工作的需求变得更加重要,因为远程医疗,即向患者提供虚拟医疗服务,已变得更为普遍。本资源介绍了一项利用免费在线资源开展的在线密室逃脱活动。该活动旨在提高卫生专业学生有效沟通、共同完成任务的能力,并在一门专门的跨专业教育课程中培养他们对医疗团队成员独特角色的认识。由五到七名学生组成的团队在线上集合,完成七个谜题以逃出虚拟房间。对六个学科的176名学生进行的前后调查结果显示,该活动有助于提高参与者对其进行尊重性沟通和共同完成任务能力的认知,同时培养他们对医疗团队成员独特角色的认识,这些都是跨专业教育协作(IPEC)核心能力的所有组成部分。这项活动为诸如远程医疗等协作性跨专业活动奠定了基础,学生们在未来将会接触到这些活动,结果表明该活动有助于在团队成员之间建立合作,即使团队成员不在同一物理空间。