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ACVP BLOG SPOTLIGHT
Is your team a learning community? Try interprofessional
cardiovascular education.
We’re still counting our five essential characteristics for
highly effective cardiac care teams. Number four? Interprofessional cardiovascular education.
ACVP Blog recently discussed the ACC’s Health Policy
Statement advocating for team-based care.
In that statement, the authors also detailed the importance
of interprofessional cardiovascular education in facilitating
team-based care and communication, another one of our
essential characteristics for highly effective cardiovascular
teams.
Interprofessional education facilitates greater interaction among providers across different disciplines. The
interaction leads to conversations that can inspire new
thinking and ideas for improving cardiovascular teambased care. ACC Health Policy Statement
Our discussion of the University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine and Public Health’s report hypothesized that the
face-to-face interactions they found to positively impact
quality and cost of cardiovascular disease care were related
to the creation of a learning community among the cardiovascular team.
Every team member learns something from every
patient, but often this learning is not shared throughout
the organization, even at the unit or team level.
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Put differently, every cardiovascular team member develops their own expertise, and the entire team benefits from
the collective sharing of that expertise and knowledge.
Looking to provide high-quality interprofessional cardiovascular education
to your staff? Host a meeting, or consider Institutional Membership.
If you are an institution looking to instill
a learning community in your team, consider ACVP Institutional Membership.
This high value, low cost membership
provides free individual membership
for every cardiovascular professional on
staff as long as educational events are
scheduled — which are also free for staff
of host institutions!
Open professional development opportunities to your staff, provide them with
free interprofessional cardiovascular
education, learning through our communications channels, benefits, and
more! Explore now.
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At the Alliance of Cardiovascular Professionals it is our
mission to provide high quality interprofessional cardiovascular education, as it is our expert opinion that these shared
educational experiences best facilitate the spread of knowledge, best practices and quality care.
Our events are also team-building, with team doctors,
nurses, and other practitioners giving sessions to their
colleagues within the hospital or learning together from
experts outside the institution.
Team-building in an educational setting is a key step
towards creating a learning community among the cardiovascular team, and that learning community is essential to
providing higher quality care at lower costs.
What do you think? Has interprofessional cardiovascular
education benefited your team and your outcomes? Has
an ACVP event improved communication among your
team members? Is your team a learning community?
Leave a comment.
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