Amy Nordon-Craft, PT, DSc
IPE Course Director; Associate Professor
University of Colorado
Dr. Nordon-Craft is an Associate Professor for the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus DPT Program and serves as the Physical Therapy Program representative to the Center for Interprofessional Education (IPE) Council, which provides IPE to over 700 learners. She has experience conducting clinical trials with patients in the ICU and home health settings, and she coordinates the APTA’s Clinical Practice Guideline task force for “Physical Therapy in the ICU.” Currently, her teaching focuses on interprofessional education, and she coordinates the CU Physical Therapy Program’s high-fidelity simulations which span patient management courses.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Background To address critical collaborative practice skills, we developed a 1-credit hour Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP) course for early health profession learners from six programs. IPCP cultivates fundamental competencies in teamwork and collaboration. Through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous modules, learners engage in interprofessional teams to achieve course objectives including understanding team and professional roles, exploring effective teamwork, providing feedback, and recognizing the impact of collaboration on healthcare outcomes. Interprofessional…