My name is Amanda Garey PhD(c), MSN, RN, NPD-BC; I am from League City, Texas. I work in the Texas Medical Center at Texas Children's Hospital as an Accredited Provider Program Director. I have worked in various bedside roles and as a nurse educator in obstetrics and pediatrics. My family drives my passion for my profession and service to my community.
It is our responsibility as health care professionals to lead with a collaborative mindset to shift the paradigm to team-based healthcare. As a team, health care professionals have the power influence positive outcomes related to staff retention, satisfaction, and patient outcomes. Teams work together to win; it takes each unique position to gain control of the game!
I first got involved in interprofessional education and research when I joined the Houston Area Perinatal Program executive community in 2012 after working in the obstetric field since 2004 as labor and delivery nurse. I began teaching fetal monitoring for the consortium throughout the community while leveraging consortium courses for our perinatal nursing staff. I became passionate about interprofessional education early in my career as an obstetric nurse. I find it exceptionally important for nurses and interprofessional licensed health care providers to learn together in high reliability environments to improve patient outcomes. In particular, nurses and physicians learning the same critical elements as it relates specialized clinical practice during entry to the clinical environment. For example, fetal monitoring interpretation and obtaining specialty certifications.
I am most proud of my current dissertation research around interprofessional collaboration in the context of complex clinical-based health systems. The study's primary objectives are to analyze the current state of team collaboration within an urban-based pediatric clinical practice setting and determine the impact of an educational intervention on the level of team collaboration in three subscales of collaborative practice in an urban pediatric hospital. I also serve as president for the Association for Nursing Professional Development – Houston Affiliate and as a volunteer appraiser with the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Primary Accreditation and Joint Accreditation Program.
I am excited to join IPR.Global and look forward to the experiences that lie ahead with networking and collaborative opportunities! IPR.Global represents a growing population of content experts shifting the paradigm to improve collaborative work across the globe and transform staff satisfaction and patient outcomes.
