CECE Spring Poster Session 2022

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  Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness

  Stephanie Burns and Danielle Clymer

  We are an interprofessional team that worked together to educate and bring awareness to FASD. There are a lot of misconceptions regarding this disorder. After learning that there are no medical trainings for physicians regarding diagnosing which results in a lack of therapy, we were eager to bring awareness to this serious matter.

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  Telehealth Strategies for a Long COVID Patient

  Bianca Bustamente and Natalie Kieruzel

  The implementation of telemedicine has risen greatly since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic and has prompted healthcare professionals to learn to adapt to this new environment, all while treating a new illness. As the pandemic progressed, practitioners began to treat patients with “long haul” COVID, or those who have experienced COVID symptoms for more than 4 weeks.

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  The Power of Interprofessional Collaboration in Building Rapport: Addressing Long-COVID Through Telehealth

  Molly L. Cherny, Jennifer Dunphy, Abigail Bloom, Devon Tomasi, Billy Hickey, and Angela Yu

  Research poster detailing interprofessional collaboration between multiple healthcare fields in building rapport through motivational interviewing. Students learn to develop interprofessional skills collaborating with Osteopathic Medicine, Allopathic Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physician Assistant, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Social Work fields to create the best plan of care for our Telehealth patient, Amanda. A focus is placed on remaining patient-centered when approaching our patient's struggles with long-COVID symptoms and exploring practical options for symptomatic treatment and lifestyle modifications.

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  Telehealth for Dummies: A Novice’s Guide to Interprofessional Telehealth

  Hanna Freeman, Sarah Haase, Kailey Hart, George Jarrouj, Meredith McCue, and Tali Twomey

  This project provides a foundation for future interprofessional cohorts to navigate the complexities of telehealth for a team-based approach. We used a retrospective review of our interprofessional team immersion project (IPTI) to determine what we would continue in the future and what we would do differently to provide the best care for our patient.

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  An Interprofessional Care Approach to Long COVID Treatment

  Mary A. Garside, Kellianne Kinane, Kathryn Ryan, Swathi Bhuma, Kendra Sloan, and Megan Eagleston

  An interprofessional approach to providing care to patients struggling with long COVID is superior in quality than individualized care. In a collaborative effort, we provided the three pillars of biological, social, and psychological support to our patients struggling with this disease. We did this by providing resources available in Maine that were aimed to provide personal structural support to our patient, categorized in all three pillars. We determined that mental health and partner support were priorities of each profession. In conclusion, an interprofessional team-based approach to patient care promotes the most holistic patient care.

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  Utilizing a Health Care Team to Foster Trust Through Telehealth Visits

  Nicole G. Gosselin, Amelia Keane, Hope Pryor, Raissa Igihozo, Jason Angellano, and Jessica Creelman

  Research presentation discusses care coordination for a patient with long COVID. The team utilized open-ended questioning to understand the patient experience in order to establish patient-directed care goals in collaboration with the health care team to foster trust, establish a cohesive care plan, and effectively address social determinants of health.

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  Peer Health Education

  Hannah Hutchins, Michaela Svendsen, and Madison Willis

  The mission of the Peer Health Education program is to promote healthy choices and lifestyles through educating and empowering the campus community on a variety of health-related topics. A survey was distributed through the UNE community to learn what health topics students would want to learn about.

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  UNE-WHA Wellness Fairs: Insight Into Aging Culture From An Interprofessional Student Team Perspective

  Hannah Jones, Anna Cook, Mora Judd, Elisabelle Bocal, Joolie Geldner, Margaret Bolger, Jaia Hudson, Jennifer Vasquez, Todd Enders, Anne Thomas, Gregory Violette, Madeline Chase, and Caitlin Farrington

  A poster highlighting the work of three interprofessional groups of students with the common goal to provide engaging, informative, and fun events to the residents of the Westbrook Housing Authority (WHA) in Westbrook, ME. Each interprofessional team worked together to plan a Mini-Wellness Fair at various Westbrook Housing buildings during the Summer and Fall of 2021, and the current team is in the process of planning the Spring 2022 event. This presentation will showcase the breadth of activities planned for the residents to help combat the isolation felt throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. We also hope this presentation provides a gateway to the implementation of similar events for other isolated groups in the Greater Portland area. Students from various health professional programs, including social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, nursing, dental, and allopathic medicine came together to create these events with help from faculty and staff from UNE and WHA.

  Funding for this activity provided by the Center for Excellence in Collaborative Education. Special thanks to the Office of Research and Scholarship and Brian and Deborah Dallaire for their support.

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  Multidisciplinary Telehealth Care Approach for our Patient with Long COVID

  Megan A. Kain, Luke Davis, Lien Lintean, Andrea Stemm, Haley Yarber, Sophia Jones, and Bridget Kelly

  This poster is a reflection and summary of our multidisciplinary telehealth approach to caring for a Long-COVID patient. Students in Allopathic Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Physician Assistant, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Dentistry, Social Work, Nursing and Pharmacy programs at UNE & Rosalind Franklin University collaborated as a virtual primary care team. Our goal was to create a holistic plan of care that sought to address the most distressing concerns of both our patient and her spouse. An overview of our patient, approach to the case, treatment plan, unexpected obstacles, and take always are discussed here.

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  Storytelling of Interprofessional Teamwork

  Jessica Lee, Ashley Ronzo, Kendall Dolan, and Daniel Bergeron

  We are an interprofessional team that worked together to discuss and treat a patient suffering from Long COVID-19. At the beginning, we came in with assumptions of other professions and carried our biases into the group. However, as we witnessed these professions interact with our Long COVID-19 patient, Amanda, our views and biases began to change. We were privileged to see how interprofessional teams interact and come together for the betterment of our patient.

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  Dental Health is Medical Health

  Grace Linder and Hannah Post

  We discuss the overlap between dental and medical health as well as convey the need for an interdisciplinary approach to patient's care for optimal health outcomes. An educational pamphlet for dental and medical facilities to provide to patients accompanies this presentation.

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  Dental Health is Medical Health

  Grace Linder and Hannah Post

  In this presentation we seek to explore the intersection of dental and medical health and its implications on prevalent diseases in America. We have also developed an educational pamphlet dentists and physicians can provide to their patients with strategies for patients to maintain their oral and medical health.

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  Interprofessional Team Immersion: Team Resilience

  Megan Macfarlane, Sarah Kelley, Courtney Carver, Quinlan Cacic, Amanda Castle, and Emma Horne

  Healthcare practitioners take on the responsibility of helping clients maintain or improve their quality of life. Interprofessional collaboration is a key aspect of treating clients in order to provide them with the best possible care. Each healthcare profession has their own therapeutic process, yet they compliment each other very well. The state of the research shows that high functioning healthcare teams can improve the quality of care provided to clients by decreasing communication failures and reducing medical errors (Babikar, et al., 2014; Rosen et al., 2018; Smith, et al., 2018). The aim of the Interprofessional Team Immersion (IPTI) was to provide University of New England and Rosalind Franklin University students with the opportunity to gain a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each healthcare profession and have a chance to practice communication skills in a telehealth setting. The current group included students from occupational therapy, physical therapy, social work, osteopathic medicine, allopathic medicine, dental hygiene, and nursing programs. The immersion consisted of 10 total hours, 80 minutes of which were dedicated to direct patient care with client actors. At the end of IPTI, students concluded that they felt more confident defining the roles and responsibilities of other healthcare professionals. It was evident that communication played a key role in the successful approaches the team took, and having opportunities to get to know one another outside of patient simulations allowed the team to build trust, leadership, and cohesion (Cohen-Konrad et. al, 2014). Students also felt that their motivational interviewing skills and ability to navigate difficult client interactions improved because of the IPTI experience.

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  Client Centered Care through a Collaborative Lens to treat symptoms of Long Haul Covid

  Kelsey N. Moulton, Eliza Burwell, Kennedy King, Zoi Sideris, and Brooke Sorbello

  Research poster reflecting on the benefits and challenges of interprofessional collaboration in caring for a patient dealing with long term COVID-19 via simulated Telehealth appointments. Multiple discoveries were made as different professions worked together to overcome technological and educational barriers to care for a patient diagnosed with a poorly understood and novel medical condition. Health professions Involved included: Allopathic Medicine, Osteopathic Medicine, Physician Assistant, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, Dental Hygiene, Social Work, Physical Therapy, and Nursing.

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  Interprofessional Peer Leadership in Support of Teaching First Year Students

  Carolyn S. Nevin, Colleen Moody, and Collyn Baeder

  The Westbrook College of Health Professions (WCHP) has recruited a highly motivated group of sophomore, junior, and senior students, from across the health professions majors, to serve as Peer Teachers for the IHS 130 Interprofessional First Year Experience course for first-year health professions students. Peer Teachers are responsible for attending their weekly course section to co-lead the class with the instructor.

  As Lead Peer Teachers, Colleen Moody and Carolyn Nevin collaborate with Collyn Baeder each week to provide continuous support to the Peer Teachers. Weekly communication and monthly meetings from the Lead Peer Teachers serve as guidance for Peer Teacher leadership development, and in turn, supports the first year student’s adjustment to the first year of college. In addition, Lead Peer Teachers are working with faculty to revise the curriculum to enhance an interactive and engaging learning environment.

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  How Word Choice Affects the Relationship Building Process with Patient/Clients

  Kassandra Pierce, Morgan Voight, Madison Champagne, Tess Saibert, and Alexander Ferreira

  An inter-professional discussion on the affects of word choice on the relationship building process with patient/clients.

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  Improving Pharmacy Education and Patient Centered Care Through Virtual Reality

  Kirsten Sullivan, Stephanie Nichols, Kenneth Lee McCall, Brian Piper, and Susan Woods

  This qualitative research explored the impact of immersive virtual reality (VR) experiences on student pharmacist knowledge, attitudes, and anticipated behaviors, when used as a supplement to traditional didactic education. Participants completed one or more simulated VR experiences role-playing a person with Alzheimer's Disease, which included experiencing realistic visual and auditory disturbances, struggling with language comprehension, and displaying symptoms of aphasia. Post experience, students completed several short essay prompts. Overall, the study assessed student's self-perceived empathy and anticipated changes to provision of patient care as a result of this activity. Major categories of themes that emerged included 1.) the dementia experience (communication and isolation, feeling like a burden, scared and helpless, confused, altered perception), 2.) importance of patient centered care (patient centered care, pharmacist perception, importance of caregiver care and inclusion, empathy), and 3.) resultant changes in practice (approach slowly and calmly, regimen simplicity and total medication care, monitor signs and symptoms, trust and rapport).

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  LGBTQ Health: Effective Training for Interprofessional Emerging Health Professionals

  Evelyne Tchokochoua, Austin Vaughan, Austeja Subaciute, Emme MacDonald, Sarah Kelley, Connor MecSweeneey, and Eric Senneville

  Studies find that cultural competency in healthcare practice with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) patients is significantly lacking across health professions’ curricula.1 LGBTQ patients are vulnerable to uninformed care as well as to biases and discrimination that, as a consequence, may result in healthcare avoidance and/or poor outcomes.2,3 Further, lack of knowledge regarding LGBTQ health contributes to practitioner discomfort and low confidence when addressing LGBTQ needs.1 The goals of this event was to raise awareness of distinctive features of LGBTQ health needs, identify biases and mitigate potential discrimination, and increase knowledge surrounding the health needs of our patients. The event presented both didactic content and interactive discussion using multimodal virtual technology to promote interprofessional collaboration among students while gaining increased understanding of culturally competent care for LGBTQ patients.

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  Promoting Optimism: An Interprofessional Approach to Treating Long Covid-19 via Telehealth

  Kursten M. Tenhoor, Emily Hash, Emily Howe, Hannah Zazulak, Olivia Doran, Alana Bochanis, and Shruthi Bhuma

  A poster entitled: Promoting Optimism: An Interprofessional Approach to Treating Long Covid-19 via Telehealth

  The objective is to approach a case of chronic illness using an interprofessional team in order to collaboratively and positively address the holistic needs of a patient as a result of long-haul COVID-19

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  Westbrook Housing Authority (WHA) Educational Seminar Series

  Gunner Vallatini, Merima Kulosman, and Miguel Vidal

  Students presented within the WHA and got the opportunity to perform a series of Health and Wellness seminars for the residents. Within each seminar, we presented on a specific theme and came with raffle prizes that were associated with that theme.