Jennifer
Tetnowski,
PhD, CCC-SLP
Assistant Professor
University of Oklahoma
Jennifer Thompson Tetnowski is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and the program coordinator for the Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology. She has been a practicing Speech Language Pathologist for over 20 years, treating individuals with communication impairments related to aphasia, dementia, and traumatic brain injury. Her research has focused on conversation and group processes in aphasia, as well as interprofessional education and practice directed toward improving life participation for persons with aphasia. She has published over 14 manuscripts and presented over 35 times on these topics.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The Unity@Keys clinic was conceptualized to meet the nursing, rehabilitation, and social needs of people with an ongoing, chronic condition such as aphasia. To accomplish this, the founding team needed to reimagine the structure of the preexisting student-run clinics. Allied health disciplines require longer times for holistic evaluation and intervention, as well as extended time/frequency of visits for follow-up. The founding team focused on patients who could benefit from continued rehabilitation after neurological insult or injury with exhausted insurance resources. In a unique twist and…
The team of interprofessional educators will present their preliminary findings of the patient perception of teamwork for an allied health profession-led interprofessional clinic and compare these with the perceptions of preceptors and students. There is a gap in the evidence base for the representation of allied health participation in interprofessional (IP) education publications and a gap in allied health IP research studying the patient experience of IP clinical interventions [1]. This research is building the evidence base for interprofessional practice and education. The Unity Clinic at…