Thursday, November 21, 2024
11/21/2024
Project Abstract Summary Seton Hall University’s (SHU) College of Nursing, School of Health and Medical Sciences, and Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (SOM) at SHU proposed, “Seton Hall University and Hackensack Meridian Health Interprofessional Medication-Assisted Training Program” will develop, implement, and build into the curriculum an interprofessional DATA waiver training program for Nurse Practitioner (NP), Physician Assistant (PA) and medical students. Faculty from the three schools will collaborate with an expert in medication-assisted treatment (MAT) to develop five training modules consisting of 24 hours of didactic training for NP and PA students, and a condensed eight hours for medical students. Didactic training will be followed by ten hours of clinical training within the Hackensack Meridian Health system. The goals of the proposed project are to: develop an evidence-based interprofessional DATA waiver training program that will be implemented into the standard core curriculum; increase the number of NPs, PAs and medical students at SHU receiving and completing the training requirements for the DATA waiver; and increase the number of NPs, PAs, and physicians practicing in New Jersey who can prescribe MAT to individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD). Objectives include: by August 2019, DATA waiver training will be fully developed and integrated into the NP, PA and medical students’ standard core curriculum; by May 2020, 60 NP students (cohort 1) will have completed 50% of didactic training and 60 PA students (cohort 1) will have completed all didactic training; by October 2020, 60 medical students (cohort 1) will have completed all didactic training; and by May 2021, 60 NP students (cohort 1) and an additional 60 PA students (cohort 2) will have completed all didactic training, and 60 NP students (cohort 2) will have completed 50% of didactic training. Training will continue after the end of the grant project period, with 75 medical students (cohort 2) completing didactic training by October 2021; 60 NP, 60 PA, and 60 medical students (cohort 1) completing all clinical training and will be eligible to obtain a DATA waiver; and 60 NP students (cohort 2) will have completed didactic training by May 2022.
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