Florida Atlantic University's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine have partnered with Boca Raton Regional Hospital (BRRH) on an innovative one-year project funded by The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. The project titled, "Aligning Education and Practice to Support Interprofessional Collaboration," has been designed to bridge the gap between what is being taught in academia and lived in practice. Currently, FAU's medical, nursing and social work students come together to learn the nationally recommended interprofessional competencies. However, this is a new trend in healthcare education, which historically was not part of the curriculum.

The objective of this project is to align academic and healthcare delivery system partners to create practice environments in the hospital setting, which support interprofessional collaboration and quality patient-centered outcomes. The project will initially focus on the discharge process at BRRH and will take place on three different units where care teams partner with patients and families within the hospital's organization.