Abstract
The University of Cincinnati’s Design + Nursing Collaborative (D+NC) responds to the unlikely but natural similarities between Design and Nursing. The “Touch and Go” method promotes iterative interprofessional collaboration as a core competency. It fulfills the academic requirements of two major programs positioning students to use discipline-specific knowledge while learning new skills and then leveraging their new knowledge to address community health challenges as a unified team. The COVID pandemic has exposed the holes within society from resource availability and supply to access to health care. Though these have been longstanding issues, the pandemic forced the public to recognize them and begin addressing them. This project allowed the Design + Nursing Collaborative students to select an identified problem, follow the process, and build a solution in collaboration with NIOSH.
Keywords
interprofessional education, collaboration, Covid-19 pandemic, remote research
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.435
Citation
Doehler, S., Goodin, J., and Werdman, E. (2022) Lockdown collaboration: Partnering to solve the wicked problems of Covid-19 through interprofessional collaboration, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June - 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.435
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Lockdown collaboration: Partnering to solve the wicked problems of Covid-19 through interprofessional collaboration
The University of Cincinnati’s Design + Nursing Collaborative (D+NC) responds to the unlikely but natural similarities between Design and Nursing. The “Touch and Go” method promotes iterative interprofessional collaboration as a core competency. It fulfills the academic requirements of two major programs positioning students to use discipline-specific knowledge while learning new skills and then leveraging their new knowledge to address community health challenges as a unified team. The COVID pandemic has exposed the holes within society from resource availability and supply to access to health care. Though these have been longstanding issues, the pandemic forced the public to recognize them and begin addressing them. This project allowed the Design + Nursing Collaborative students to select an identified problem, follow the process, and build a solution in collaboration with NIOSH.