Sheri
Price,
RN, PhD, FCAN, FAAN
Professor
Dalhousie University
Dr. Sheri Lynn Price is a Professor with the School of Nursing, Dalhousie University, and an Affiliate Scientist at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Dr. Price is also a Collaborator with the Pan-Canadian Health Human Research Network and a Co-Investigator with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Health Workforce Planning. Her program of research is focused in the areas of nursing recruitment, health services, interprofessional collaboration and healthcare work environments. Her research has advanced our understanding of how early influences on professional identity formation, including historical stereotypes, can impact not only recruitment but also career satisfaction and retention- issues of critical importance. Her research has also informed the development of strategies to enhance interprofessional socialization and the quality of healthcare workplaces. She currently leads several studies designed at improving interprofessional education and collaboration across the health professions and she employs novel knowledge translation strategies using dramatic arts, videos, and social media. Recognition for her innovation and contributions to nursing and interprofessional education scholarship have resulted in numerous prestigious research and leadership awards and invited/keynote speaking engagements at national and international forums. Dr. Price is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing and the American Academy of Nursing.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Purpose: Interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP), occurs when health professions work collaboratively with the goal of improved quality of care and services. IPCP is reported to enhance patient outcomes and care providers’ professional and workplace satisfaction, yet there exist myriad challenges to enacting it. Interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) is considered foundational for promoting collaboration among healthcare students yet there is a gap in understanding how IPECP contributes to students’ professional and interprofessional identity development and…
Background: Interprofessional collaboration between oral and health professionals supports enhanced patient care and outcomes. IPECP in pre-licensure education supports professional/interprofessional socialization. Within IPECP, students develop understanding of their professional role, identity and begin developing an interprofessional identity where collaborative attitudes, behaviours, and skills are developed. IPECP literature in oral health education is limited. It is not well understood how dental hygiene (DH) and dentistry (DDS) students are educated in IPECP and prepared for…
Purpose: Interprofessional education for collaborative practice (IPECP) within pre-licensure health education supports professional and interprofessional socialization where understanding of roles, scopes and collaboration are developed. IPECP also promotes interprofessional identity development where students come to embody collaborative skills, attitudes and behaviors that enable collaboration in practice. Medical students are involved in IPECP, however few studies have followed students longitudinally into practice to understand impacts of interprofessional practice experiences on…