TEAMING UP for a healthier world
The human body is an amazing collection of connected systems that allow us to move, breathe, and think. Doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals use specialized knowledge to keep us healthy, staying within the defined boundaries of their professions. Those boundaries, however, can be hurdles to providing the best possible care. If every part of our bodies is connected, shouldn’t our care be connected as well?
Washington State University Spokane is revolutionizing
health care through its team care approach to education
and research. On a growing campus with a strong focus
on the health
sciences and professions, you’ll find
students learning to work across traditional
professional boundaries to provide the best possible
care: TEAM CARE.
As part of community health events, you’ll see
exercise physiology & metabolism students working
with future pharmacists and nurses to conduct health
screenings. Walk into the Clinical Performance &
Simulation Lab in the new Nursing Building, and you may
find a team of student nurses and pharmacists immersed
in a human patient simulation exercise, putting their
skills to the test on a life-sized manikin that
breathes, coughs, has a pulse, and complains of chest
pains. And on a daily basis, first-year medical and
dentistry students rub elbows as they learn the
foundations of medicine.
Through new teaching approaches and interdisciplinary
clinical experiences, Washington State University
Spokane is preparing students to be members of the
expert teams that will break down barriers to solve
tomorrow’s health care challenges.
WSU’s Big Idea: Heal Health Care through Team Care
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Heal Health Care Through Team Care-Project 10tothe100 |
