Interprofessional Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Underserved Adults with Type 2 Diabetes on Insulin or Secretagogues.

Literature describing continuous glucose monitoring for underserved patients, including those with type 2 diabetes or at risk for hypoglycemia, is lacking. : An interprofessional internal medicine residency team implemented a blinded CGM service for underserved adults with type 2 diabetes with at-goal glycated hemoglobin (A1C) taking insulin or secretagogues. : The 2-week blinded CGM service (N=44) significantly reduced time in hypoglycemia (<70 mg/dL) by 4.

Interprofessional Medication Self-Management Program for Older Underserved Adults.

Introduction: Older adults have complex medication self-management challenges that can contribute to poor disease control.

Methods: In 2016, an interprofessional medication self-management program was implemented in an internal medicine primary care residency clinic caring for a large proportion of indigent patients. This was a 1-year, quasi-experimental, pre-post study approved by the Institutional Review Board to evaluate the impact of this program on hypertension and diabetes control in older adults.

Faculty-Led Role-Play Simulation: Going Live to Teach Patient-Centered Care to Nursing Students.

Background: Nursing education of patient-centered care (PCC) principles is recommended to improve the quality and safety of patient care. Role-playing simulations within safe classroom learning environments may increase student competence and confidence in delivering PCC.

Method: This innovative strategy included course faculty brief role-play scenarios.

Interdisciplinary Shared Governance in Ambulatory Care: One Health System's Journey.

The implementation of shared governance structures in acute care has illustrated the positive relationship between shared decision making and nurse empowerment and positive nurse and patient outcomes. Little is known, however, about interdisciplinary shared governance, and even less is known about shared governance in ambulatory care. This article details one health system's experience with the implementation of an interdisciplinary shared governance structure in ambulatory care over a 4-year period.

Experiencing chronic illness: cocreating new understandings.

This study was conducted as part of a research course in which new partnerships with area citizens and community-driven programs of research were developed. Working together, the teachers, students, and citizens were able to document their practical knowledge through conducting a study of the lived experiences of chronic illness using Heideggerian hermeneutical phenomenology. The pattern, Experiencing Chronic Illness: Cocreating New Understanding, and three themes emerged during the analysis of the data (a) focusing on functional status doesn't adequately account for the experience of chronic illness, (b) decentering the focus on the treatment of symptoms makes way for equally important discussions of meaning making in the context of chronic illness, and (c) the objectified language of healthcare covers over how chronic illness is experienced.