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Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice

Session: Indigenous and Cross Cultural Approaches to Interprofessional Practice

Providing Care for Refugee Families: Interprofessional Collaboration of MSW, Nursing, Medicine, and Law Students

Friday, October 25, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2504B

    Presenter(s)

  • Nurit Fischer-Shemer, PhD, MSW, MEd

    Assistant Clinical Professor & Coordinator for Interprofessional Education / PhD, MSW, MEd
    School of Health Sciences / University of the Pacific
    Sacramento, CA, United States

Providing health care services to refugees in the United States is a complex task. Presented here is a project of interprofessional collaboration among social work, medicine, nursing, and law students in conjunction with a resettlement agency. Similar collaborations to support other populations are suggested.

Learning Objectives:

  1. List the health, mental health, and initial assessment tools for screening refugees that are recommended by the CDC and describe the health considerations and legal options for newly arrived refugees in the U.S.
  2. Understand the meaning of cultural competence and cultural humility, and become familiar with idioms of distress, explanatory models for health and illness, and health-seeking behaviors across cultures arriving to the United States.
  3. Self-reflection on how students' own culture has challenged their ability to care for a newly arrived refugees and examine how one’s personal role interfaces with other Interprofessional team members in a community-based learning experience.