This year’s Nexus Summit 2022 celebrated the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education’s decade of growth in the field of collaborative health. UNE has had a close alliance with the National Center since it’s 2012 inception and were proud sponsors and presenters at this year’s conference, “Learning Together in the Nexus: A Focus on What Matters Most”. The Summit (August 20-23; September 13, 14) returned to its pre-pandemic in-person format in Minneapolis followed by a two-day virtual conference.
UNE Occupational Therapy student Elise Parker presented a poster at the in-person session on the collaborative work being done by Cumberland County Jail and the Center for Excellence in Collaborative Education (CECE) to promote harm reduction. The poster, co-authored by Trisha Mason, WCHP Director of Service Learning and Kris Hall, CECE Program Manager, “Partnerships in Harm Reduction: campus to community engagement to benefit incarcerated individuals upon release”, received considerable attention from universities hoping to emulate the model. Dr. Elizabeth Crampsey’s lightening talk “Occupational therapy students’ application of interprofessional education core competency domains during simulation” highlighted the application of interprofessional core competencies to OT practice. Dr. Shelley Cohen Konrad, CECE Director, facilitated a national panel* to discuss the topic of resilience. “Resilience Revisited: Moving the Focus from Individuals to Systems” focused on the need to integrate resilience and wellness practices across institutions and programs. Altogether, the Nexus Summit continued its history of bringing forth critical topics to advance quality healthcare practice and education and to promote innovation that achieves meaningful outcomes for the people and populations we serve.