Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS)
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Implementation of a Curriculum to Optimize Hygiene Behaviors Among Refugees and Migrants Being Resettled
Get PDFHealth knowledge and behaviors can impact well-being and promote community integration post-arrival for refugees and migrants being resettled. Health and hygiene curricula are efficient and accessible mechanisms to mitigate the risk of chronic and infectious diseases in populations being resettled. This report summarizes a successful interagency/interdisciplinary Uganda-based collaboration between the International Organization for Migration, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the University of Minnesota. The project's objective was to co-create and align a health curriculum and education messages across the resettlement continuum. Due to timing, the curriculum expanded to include COVID-19 prevention education, thus broadening the initiative's impact. Since the initial implementation, thousands of US-bound applicants have had exposure to the curriculum modules. The curriculum is now the primary tool for health education during pre-departure procedures in Kampala, Uganda, with implementations planned in other countries. The modular format and standardized non-technical language facilitated uptake by medical and non-medical personnel. Incorporating end users in curriculum development supports the early adoption and sustainability of the project. The interagency/interdisciplinary partnership strengthens systems and supports resource sharing to optimize the health and well-being of persons resettling in the United States
What if Descartes had been a Woman? An Epistemology of Empathic Partnership
Get PDFAn underlying assumption of much of public and academic discourse is that logic is a universal language transferable between humans, regardless of gender, race, religion, class, or culture. Conversely, personal experience is seen as simply that: personal. It may be a powerful way to illustrate a point or imbue it with passion, but it is not an argument in and of itself. Personal experience is particular, subjective, non-transferable, and ineffective due to its affective-ness. Yet our definitions of universal rationality have themselves been formed within particular contexts, primarily by Western males. Applying recent studies in the social sciences to a broader theory of knowledge, this paper will ask what androcratic assumptions males have brought into epistemology and what perspectives females have had to leave at the door? Specifically, is there a long-ignored partnership paradigm of female empathy (regardless of whether it is biologically or socially ingrained) that legitimates personal experience by allowing it to be transferable between humans? What might such a gylanic approach to knowledge yield for future ideologies and their corresponding social, political, and academic institutions
Human Morality: Love or Fear, Partnership or Domination
Get PDFDavid Loye pointed us to one of Charles Darwin’s aims that often has been overlooked, to explain the evolution of humanity’s moral sense. Most people focus on Darwin’s aim to explain speciation, changes in traits across generations. In studying the moral sense, Darwin assumed it was innate, though he found it more evident among non-Western peoples he met than among his British compatriots. His finding is not a surprise if you understand when and how most human sociomoral capacities are shaped—after birth, by immersive experience. Humanity’s evolved developmental niche, or evolved nest, appears to be crucial for the development of moral sense because it provides the support needed to optimize the development of psychosocial neurobiological systems. To reestablish and maintain the moral sense, humanity needs to restore the provision of the evolved nest to all people, especially children
Shifting the Opioid Conversation from Stigma to Strengths: Opportunities for Developing Community-Academic Partnerships
No full textBackground: Opioid misuse and abuse is a longstanding concern, particularly in underserved communities. Community-level data is needed to understand how to best address the opioid crisis. A strengths-based whole-person approach can offset challenges in working to maximize individual health.
Objectives: Project objectives included acquiring and providing data to the community to engage members in meaningful conversations about opioid misuse and abuse and gather insights to shape a response to the opioid crisis.
Methods: University of Minnesota School of Nursing faculty collaborated with community partner Hue-MAN Partnership, to develop and implement a Community Opioid Survey at neighborhood meetings. The MyStrengths+MyHealth assessment was used to identify strengths of community members. Community meetings included introductions by the Hue-MAN Partnership, presentation of the survey data, and facilitated discussion to involve community members in data interpretation and solution development.
Results: Data was collected at 11 community meetings between June 2018 and May 2019. Approximately half of respondents had been affected by opioid misuse or overdose; oxycodone was the most frequent opioid involved; community clinics were the most available resource; and community education was identified as a needed resource to reduce misuse and overdose. Communities perceived and used language differently in talking about opioids.
Conclusion: The community-academic- partnership enabled collection of community-specific data that may have been inaccessible to researchers working alone. Access to community-specific data holds promise for increasing research relevance and for engaging community knowledge and needs
Collective Impact Partnerships: The Data to Action Hourglass Model
Get PDFModels are needed to guide positive health care and social transformation using real-world data, particularly in an era of data-driven science and accountability. We describe the Data-to-Action Hourglass Model, which synthesizes ideas of collective impact, partnership theory and practice, knowledge complexity, design justice, and systems thinking toward this goal. The Hourglass Model is an ecological (nested) perspective, placing knowledge management within the context of health at levels ranging from planetary to personal, and then using knowledge to inform collective action to influence policy. We offer in-depth commentary and resources to guide use of the Hourglass Model in research, education, and practice, and invite collaboration and discourse related to the model
Developing Partnerships to Examine Community Strengths, Challenges, and Needs in Nigeria: A Pilot Project
Get PDFThere has been increased attention internationally on whole-person health and on building health resilience. A community project developed and coordinated an international effort in Nigeria using the web-based application MyStrengths+MyHealth (MSMH) to promote understanding of strengths (resilience), challenges, and needs as part of a health and well-being initiative, providing the opportunity to develop sustainable community partnerships informed by data. Community partners partnered to pilot the use of MSMH to gather self-reported data on strengths, challenges, and needs in the community setting. Participants were sent a WhatsApp link to MSMH; data was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Further research is needed to validate results in a larger population. This community project presents a new phase of individual and community-level data to understand hidden needs of the most vulnerable members of communities. This research has the potential to shift the paradigm to optimize population health management using a strengths (resilience) perspective
Interprofessional Roles and Collaborations to Address COVID-19 Pandemic Challenges in Nursing Homes
Get PDFNursing home experts and informatics nurses collaborated to develop guidelines for nursing homes that revealed partnership principles in action during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article describes efforts to define interprofessional nursing home staff roles within the partnership-based COVID-19 Response Guideline, and to examine changes in nursing practice compared to the pre-pandemic practice of nurses. The qualitative process of identification of nursing home staff roles revealed the extensive scope of interprofessional partnership needed to respond to the pandemic. Using the Omaha System structure, we compared these collective COVID-19 response interventions of Nursing Service roles with nursing interventions of RNs and LPN/LVNs defined in previous nursing home studies. This comparison showed the necessary transformation and collaboration among nurses needed for the pandemic response in nursing homes. The Omaha System Pandemic Guideline is available online and in the Omaha System Guidelines app for immediate use as COVID-19 response practice guidelines and references for interprofessional roles in nursing homes, as well as for multidisciplinary roles across diverse care settings. The guideline is an exemplar of how informatics can facilitate interprofessional and multidisciplinary partnership for nursing homes and other care settings. Future use of the guidelines for decision making and documentation related to infection prevention and control in nursing homes may improve care quality and health outcomes of residents and population
Moral Sensitivity, Moral Transformation, and Evolutionary Scientist David Loye: An Introduction
Get PDFThis article introduces the two major themes of this issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies: moral sensitivity and transformation, and honoring the late evolutionary systems scientist David Loye. The article shows how these two themes are integrally interconnected. Loye introduced the term “moral sensitivity” as well as the distinction between “partnership moral sensitivity” and “dominator moral insensitivity” or “moralism,” showing how the latter has been used to push us back to “strong-man” rule, violence, and injustice. He was the first to reclaim what he called “Darwin’s lost theory” based on Charles Darwin’s long-ignored writings about human evolution, including what Darwin called “the moral sense.” Quoting from some of Loye’s more than 30 published books as well as a sampling of articles, the article highlights his gift of bringing to life the people and times he wrote about, including the men and women he called “the great scientific explorers of the better world.” Colorful examples from his many writings illustrate how Loye advanced the study of human evolution through his offerings on moral sensitivity, clarifying much that is otherwise obscured, and showing his enormous contributions to a better understanding of our past, present, and the possibilities for our future. The article provides new terms and new ideas for building a more equitable, less violent, more sustainable future through the works of a man first known for his prize-winning book on the immorality of racism, whose later works focused on how we can create a future where we not only survive, but thrive
A Conversation with Kelly White, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer, Hennepin Healthcare: Partnering to Improve Work Culture
Get PDFGertrude Thomas, MSN, RN, PHN, CNE, interviews Kelly White, Chief Nursing Officer at Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their conversation addresses the vision of the new nurse leader collaborative work to improve outcomes for patients that align with the organization’s mission of providing equitable and incisive care for patients and staff. Expectations and hopes for improving work culture and health-care outcomes are at the highest level with the incoming of the new CEO and the new CNO. We hope for transformation through partnerships across disciplines and collaborative work to meet goals that will improve our health-care systems. In their 2021 document, The Future of Nursing, 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine identify ways in which nurses should work with other members of the interdisciplinary team to eliminate disparities in health care and move toward equitable care delivery. This call to action cannot be achieved by one discipline. Stepping out of our silos and partnering across disciplines to bring our best efforts to the table, backed by actions that deliver care with a focus on equity and excellence, will bring us closer to achieving these visionary goals. Leadership challenges that include patients’ safety, staff satisfaction, financial accountability, and equitable care delivery, have spiraled downward because of an ongoing pandemic. This is more reason to lean into partnerships and gain collaborative insights that bring out our best. We can intentionally and effectively redesign health-care delivery through partnerships to achieve mutual goals
Call for Papers: The Cooperative, Caring, and Moral Nature of Humans: Honoring David Loye
Get PDFIn honor of the life and work of Dr. David Loye (April 26, 1925 – January 25, 2022), the theme of the second issue of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies in 2022 will be the historical understanding and future possibilities for the more cooperative, caring, and moral nature of humans, including research and practical manifestations of empathy and moral sensitivity. The submission deadline is August 15, 2022