Shelly
Farmer,
MSN, RM, CCRN
Nurse Educator
Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences
Shelly Farmer, MSN, RM, CCRN is a faculty member at the Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences, teaching primarily senior level nursing students. She is a diploma nurse who later obtained her BSN and MSN from Alvernia University. She spent 25 years as a critical care nurse and has been sharing her passion for nursing with students since 2020. She was instrumental in development of the Critical Care Simulation during COVID which was so beneficial to students that the simulation has continued after COVID to prepare students for their critical care experiences.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The purpose of this lightning talk is to highlight the creation, implementation, and assessment of a multi-university interprofessional education (IPE) experience which involved medicine, nursing, and pharmacy students. This education experience used IPE as a pedagogical approach to intersect ethical principles and communication strategies on healthcare provider (HCP) substance use disorder (SUD). Since the need for IPE is well-established in the scholarly literature and is an accreditation requirement in all three professional programs; it was an ideal approach to address the necessary…