Publications by authors named "Tanya A Huff"
Interprofessional education needs a stronger theoretical basis informed by the challenges facing collaboration across professions. This study explores the impact of power distance (perception of role hierarchy), on team effectiveness as mediated by team cohesion and psychological safety (believe one can speak up without the fear of negative consequences). Furthermore, it tests for differences between medical and nursing students in these concepts.
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- Interprofessional education (IPE) aims to prepare healthcare practitioners to collaborate effectively, and interprofessional simulation-based education (IPSE) helps students learn and develop their professional identities in realistic settings while addressing negative stereotypes.
- The study examined how perceptions of interprofessional education and provider stereotypes shift among nursing and medical students after participating in IPSE, focusing on if the changes differ by discipline.
- After a two-week IPSE program, nursing students reported significantly more positive perceptions of doctors, while medical students showed little change in their stereotypes, indicating that the experience had a more profound impact on nursing students’ views.
This study assessed the effectiveness of a learner-centered simulation intervention designed to improve the communication skills of preprofessional sophomore nursing students. An innovative teaching strategy in which communication skills are taught to nursing students by using trained actors who served as standardized family members in a clinical learning laboratory setting was evaluated using a two-group posttest design. In addition to current standard education, the intervention group received a formal training session presenting a framework for communication and a 60-minute practice session with the standardized family members.
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