Nicole
Mollenkopf,
PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCPPS
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Nicole Mollenkopf, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, BCPPS is an Assistant Professor and Director of Interprofessional Education at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She teaches pharmacology to pre-licensure nursing students in the Master of Science in Nursing: Entry into Nursing Program. She also teaches advanced clinical pharmacology to nurses in the Doctor of Nursing Advanced Practice Programs. She maintains a practice site at the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality where she is a Patient Safety Specialist.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
In this seminar we will discuss how we developed and evaluated a two-semester Health System Science (HSS) curriculum enhancement program for pre-licensure nursing students. Health Systems Science is a foundational platform and framework for the study and understanding of how care is delivered, how health professionals work together to deliver that care, and how the health system can improve patient care and health care delivery (AMA, 2024).
Our program focuses on building systems thinkers who value interprofessional collaboration and can address systems issues across the care continuum for…
Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) is an essential component of pre-licensure nursing education. It allows students to learn from and collaborate with health professionals from different disciplines and prepares them for clinical practice. The aim of this review is to identify best practices in clinical-based IPE for pre-licensure nursing students, describe the context in which clinical-based IPE activities are held, and explore methods of evaluating clinical-based IPE courses and events. Design: We searched three scientific databases (Embase, CINAHL, and PubMed) using terms…
We hear routinely from groups of interprofessional students that they want organic opportunities to interact and "just get to know one another" before being expected to work together during formal interprofessional education (IPE) events. In response, our IPE collaborative, which is a joint effort between Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health and the Notre Dame of Maryland School of Pharmacy, developed an introductory "social" IPE event that precedes other IPE programming that our students participate in during their respective professional programs. The goal of our IPE…