Caroline
Hess
Nursing Student
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Caroline Hess is a senior nursing student at the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Nursing. Her interests include wilderness emergency medicine and flight medicine. She is committed to delivering comprehensive and compassionate clinical care to future patients, as well as ensuring effective interprofessional communication and education in medicine. She currently serves as a Wilderness EMT and EMT-B, where she has learned that communication and teamwork among first responders is key to improving patient outcomes.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education (UW CIPE) Interprofessional Education (IPE) Clinical & Community Placement Experience aims to enhance IPE learning during students' clinical and community placements by providing tools for students, instructors, and preceptors to integrate IPE intentionally.
The IPE Transplant Care Practice Placement was conceived from the experiences of a UW-Madison fourth-year medical student (first author) and was further developed by UW CIPE and a faculty champion in the transplant surgery section. Learning…