Interprofessional Education Simulation Project Using the Collaborative Care Model

Integrated behavioral health care (IBH), a team-based approach to care, involves behavioral health providers (BHP) to be utilized in primary care settings. Unfortunately, many BHP and primary care advanced practice nursing students do not receive IBH content in their educational curriculum. This article describes an innovative interprofessional simulation project (ISP) in a virtual IBH setting with primary care nurse practitioner and master's level counseling students.

The ISP involved students role-playing using case studies while enacting the roles exemplified in the Collaborative Care model (CoCM). Interprofessional faculty collaborated in developing the project and training facilitators and interprofessional students.

Of the students and faculty who completed a postsurvey, 87.7% reported an increase in preparedness in learning the CoCM, and 92.6% responded the preparation time for the project was "appropriate."

The ISP project resulted in high satisfaction and perceived increased preparedness for students and faculty to practice and teach IBH. [J Nurs Educ. 2025;64(7):462-466.].