One of the first exercises was geared to engaging the students in the national conversation on creating a culture of health. http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/culture-of-health/2013/05/about_culture_ofhea.html
The first week of class we broke into 3 small groups and did a rapid, relevant exercise-collectively creating a vision for a culture of health in 10 words (adopted from the TED 2014 exercise posted on Linked In by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Leadership Network. Each group had 15 minutes. The students really liked the exercise which they said "made you think," was "engaging." It was challenging to have "parsimony while communicating a grand message." I lurked and listened and was quite impressed with the dialogue and the need for the participants to focus on key concepts that are essential to a vision for a culture of health.
Here are the results.
1. Linking hands, hearts, minds and wallets to promote healthy humanity.
2. Comprehensive personalized healthcare evidenced by optimized outcomes for all.
(revised from original) Personalized health equality evidenced by comprehensive optimized outcomes for individuals.
(revised from original) Personalized health equality evidenced by comprehensive optimized outcomes for individuals.
3. Maximizing life quality and human potential through strategic,synergistic partnerships.
I can see lots of possibilities for doing this exercise in formal teaching as well as conferences. One suggestion was to have a contest among teams of interprofessional students.
Ideas?
Submitted my Susan L. Beck PhD APRN FAAN
Professor, University of Utah College of Nursing
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