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| |  Nursing, medical schools should work together, experts say
Medical and nursing schools should collaborate and evolve their curricula to promote team-based care, according to stakeholders at a summit sponsored by the New England Healthcare Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
“We need a revolution in the way we train our future providers,” said Erin Mann, health policy associate at the New England Healthcare Institute (NEHI). Nursing and medical schools must work together to embed long-term changes within education, she said. The summit addressed how to remove the barriers and ensure that transformation occurs.
Mann pointed out that medical and nursing schools are on different calendars. By aligning their schedules, schools can offer shared classes and faculty members can team teach and serve as role models for change, she said.
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Nov 12, 2009, 07:28 PM
Re: Nursing, medical schools should work together, experts say
I think it's a good idea in theory, but I think a few years into it, the nursing model would become molded to the medical model. The AMA likes to control things.
I don't know, maybe I'm off here.
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Nov 12, 2009, 08:24 PM
Re: Nursing, medical schools should work together, experts say
My med school doesn't have a nursing school (although I do see nursing students around the hospital sometimes...) We do, however, have a very popular med school elective called "Nursing Collaboration" for first and second year med student. Med students shadow experienced RNs 1-on-1 on different services to get a better understanding of what nurses do. I've heard pretty positive things about this (and it helps the med students on our third and fourth year rotations).
I agree that the different medical professions need a better idea of what the others do. If we learn the strengths of each clinical profession, we can learn how to better collaborate to improve patient care. Despite what I sometimes see on this board (and occasionally on SDN), physicians and nurses (and pharmacists and PAs and RTs, etc.) don't have to be at odds.
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Nov 13, 2009, 05:51 AM
Re: Nursing, medical schools should work together, experts say
This to me seems like a "duh" kind of statement!! Nurses have been whining about doctors not seeing and treated us like the professionals that we are for years. How else are they going to know what we do and how we REALLY affect our patients if they don't learn it in school? By the time they are done with school it's too late to teach most of them because the only interactions that stick out in their heads are when the nursing staff did something that caused them a problem (like saved them from making a stupid mistake and calling their attending before the problem happened!)
In other words, off my soap box now, We need to learn how to work together before we hit the floors!
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Nov 13, 2009, 06:39 AM
Re: Nursing, medical schools should work together, experts say Originally Posted by CityKat  I think it's a good idea in theory, but I think a few years into it, the nursing model would become molded to the medical model. The AMA likes to control things.
I don't know, maybe I'm off here.
Excellent point!
And what a positive change that would be. Imagine, no more wasted time and energy formulating useless nursing diagnosis.
There is only one diagnosis, and it's a medical one.
Creating a diagnosis for everything we do is is just pathetic.
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