The Importance of IPE

Interprofessional Education (IPE) is used to help create a shared space amongst different interprofessional education, interprofessional practice and collaborative practice. According to American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, IPE is defined as an activity that occurs when two or more professionals learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improvement outcomes for individuals and families whom we serve. IPE is used to help improve health, creating support systems, and trying different types of practice to better a patient and their care.

Inter-Professional Education is important for the following reasons:

• Improve the quality of patient care
• Improve patient and provider experience
• Lower healthcare costs
• Decrease patients' length of stay
• Reduce medical errors

The goal of IPE is for individuals to learn the scope of practice of the professionals involved in the patient care. The collaboration between professionals will allow for good commmunication between one another and with the patient, along with a more efficient plan for intervention.