Professionalism

Interprofessional Learning and Psychiatric Expertise in Mental Health Courts

Background: Interprofessional collaboration is key to reducing overincarceration of people with severe mental illness. One collaboration model emphasizes cognitive tasks: becoming familiar with values and knowledge of other disciplines. Another model emphasizes calibrating expertise to the demands of the workplace….

Interprofessional Art Rounds

Art Rounds is an interprofessional workshop that uses art to develop nursing and medical students’ observation skills and empathy. The workshop’s joint emphasis on interprofessional education (IPE) and visual thinking strategies (VTS) is intended to improve patient outcomes, strengthen interprofessional…

Should Clinicians Care About How Food Behaviors Express Gender Identity?

The nutrition care process (NCP) accounts for a person’s biological sex characteristics but does not adequately address their gender. Yet dietary choices express one’s social identity in ethically and clinically relevant ways. Persons identifying as men tend to eat meat…

Do Clinics in Meat and Poultry Plants Endanger Workers?

Most meatpacking workers are Black, Latinx, and immigrant workers earning low wages and at high risk for occupational injury. Most meat and poultry plants have on-site workplace clinics (OWCs) where workers are required to obtain care for work-related injuries or…