Family nurse practitioner students learn how to conduct a musculoskeletal injury assessment from Dr. Michael Hudson with assistance from MSAT graduate students Kenna Daugherty and Killian Flynn in a 6-hour section of their Advanced Physical Assessment and Clinical Reasoning course. These future nurse practitioners are developing their orthopedic assessment techniques and learning how to apply these procedures to the diagnosis and initial management of certain low back, upper extremity, and lower extremity injuries. Many of these students will be in rural practice settings, so the experiences they gain from this course will bring sports medicine care to patients who do not always have access to licensed athletic trainers.
Sharing expertise in our respective professions with groups in other professions is a great example of interprofessional education. Through this, professions learn from and with each other and as a result, respect for each group can grow.