Interdisciplinary Professional Education: A Collaborative Clinical Teaching Project.
Summary of Positive Comments Pharmacy Students: Appreciation of the psychosocial and financial complexities of patient-focused care Improved understanding of nurses’ patient assessment Skills A more holistic view of patient-focused care Collegial relationships Nursing Students: In depth discussions of laboratory values and principles of pharmacotherapy Collegial relationships Summary of Negative Comments Pharmacy Students: Length of program — too short Unequal emphasis of nursing vs. pharmacy aspects inDiscussions Nursing Students: Environmental (room size) No lunch break (case study presentations were convened at lunch time for “mouthful conferences”) pharmacists are more interested in books than in patients”. Interestingly, both student groups fulfilled these expecta-tions. The nursing students actively lobbied for gloves (for universal precautions) and a “flying surgical suite,” while the pharmacy students requested a variety of computerized CD-ROM medical information references. EVALUATION