Applying the Integrated Care Approach: Advanced-Additional Resource: Course Workbook

Additional Resource: Course Workbook

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In this workbook supplement, the focus is on applying the integrated care approach and reflecting on personal experiences in practicing within an integrated care model. The workbook includes modules on working with teams, educating the care team, past practice change, and sustaining practice change. There are also interactivity exercises that reinforce the concepts learned in each module. The exercises involve considering personal experiences, identifying opportunities for improvement, and setting practice goals.<br /><br />In the first exercise, the workbook prompts the reader to consider their experience working with teams and the most challenging effective team principle to implement. In the second exercise, the reader is asked to identify opportunities for including education in their current practice and leadership opportunities they can identify. The third exercise focuses on past practice change and sustaining practice change, asking the reader to reflect on their experiences with implementing and sustaining practice change at organizational efforts.<br /><br />The workbook also includes a section on putting principles into practice, which requires the reader to review their responses from a previous module and identify areas of improvement. This is done by considering which principles have the most and fewest check marks and setting goals to improve their practice in those areas. The principles covered include population-based care, treatment to target, patient-centered collaboration, evidence-based care, and accountable care.<br /><br />Overall, this workbook supplement is designed to reinforce the fundamental elements of integrated care and encourage reflection and improvement in personal practice within an integrated care model.

Keywords

integrated care

teamwork in healthcare

care team education

practice change

sustaining practice change

personal reflection

practice improvement

population-based care

patient-centered collaboration

evidence-based care