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This course is designed to promote understanding about the importance of health professions students (nursing, medical, and pharmacy) to work together in providing patient care. Seminar topics include a comparison of the similarities and differences in nursing, medical, and pharmacy education, as well as the importance of interprofessional collaboration for providing safe, high quality patient care. Students will learn about the distinct roles of physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other professional members of the health care team, and will appreciate how these roles contribute to safe care delivery through a variety of learning modalities, including discussions, role play, case studies and home visits. Integrated learning of nursing, medical, and pharmacy students will include strategies focusing on developing skills needed to enhance interprofessional communication, teamwork and collaboration in developing therapeutic relationships with older adults. The Worth and Jane Daniels Initiative supports this course targeting pre-licensure students, as well as a course at the advanced practice level for resident physicians and pharmacy students to learn the skills of interprofessional collaboration while caring for complex community-based older patients. Corequisites: NR.120.501-120.505