Trish Zeytoonjian ’07, DNP, RN, is the Clinical Faculty Coordinator for the Interprofessional Dedicated Education Unit (IPDEU) experience at MGH and Instructor for both the ABSN and DEN programs. She also coordinates interprofessional efforts in the acute care setting with the ABSN students.

Beginning in the fall of 2011, the IPDEU is an innovative educational experience that allows students to participate, learn, and practice team-based medicine. This program allows students from Nursing, Physical Therapy and Communication Sciences & Disorders, Physician Assistant, Occupational Therapy and Harvard Medical School to participate together on acute care units at Massachusetts General Hospital. The students work together to foster interprofessional teamwork and communication and begin to understand the roles and responsibilities of members of the healthcare team while caring for patients and families.

Trish also works as a Nurse Director at Massachusetts General Hospital on an Orthopedic/Urology/Surgery unit.

Trish received her BA from Lafayette College in Spanish and her RN/MSN from the MGH Institute with a focus on the adult population and holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice at Northeastern University.

  • BA, Spanish, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
  • MS Nursing, Adult Health specialty, MGH Institute of Health Professions
  • DNP, Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Research Interests

  • Interprofessional practice in the acute care setting

Presentations

Fitzgerald, C., Evenson, M., O’Dea, M., Inzana, R., Zeytoonjian, T. (2014). A Collaborative Interprofessional Clinical Education Model to Improve Compassionate Team-based Care. Advancing Compassionate Care Through Interprofessional Education for Collaborative Practice, Atlanta Georgia.

Gaurdia Banister, RN, PhD FAAN; Leslie Portney, PhD, DPT, FAPTA; Linda Andrist, PhD, RNC, WHNP-BC; Patricia Fitzgerald, RN; Rebecca Inzana, MS, CCC-SLP; Ann Jampel, PT, MS; Mary Knab, PhD, DPT; Maureen Schnider, RN; Carmen Vega-Barachowitz, MS, CCC-SLP, CAGS; Trisha Zeytoonjian, MS, RN. (2016). Developing Clinical Faculty to Support Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice: An Academic-Practice Partnership. Massachusetts General Hospital, Nursing Research Day, Boston, MA.

Gaurdia Banister, RN, PhD FAAN; Leslie Portney, PhD, DPT, FAPTA; Linda Andrist, PhD, RNC, WHNP-BC; Patricia Fitzgerald, RN; Rebecca Inzana, MS, CCC-SLP; Ann Jampel, PT, MS; Mary Knab, PhD, DPT; Maureen Schnider, RN; Carmen Vega-Barachowitz, MS, CCC-SLP, CAGS Trisha Zeytoonjian, MS, RN. (2016). Developing Clinical Faculty to Support Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice: An Academic-Practice Partnership. ECOTE Symposium, Boston, MA.

Zeytoonjian, T., Inzana, R., Knab, M., Schnider, M., Jampel, A., Vega-Barachowitz, C. (2016). Preparing Clinicians to be Effective Interprofessional Practice Instructors: A Faculty Development Workshop. Presented at All Together Better Health Conference, Oxford, England.

Zeytoonjian, T. (2016). Multidisciplinary Team Approach to the Management of the Geriatric Trauma Patient. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Gaurdia Banister, Leslie G. Portney, Carmen Vega-Barachowitz, Ann Jampel, Maureen Schnider, Rebecca Inzana, Trisha Zeytoonjian, Patricia Fitzgerald, Inez Tuck, Melissa Jocelyn, Jacquelyn Holmberg, Mary Knab. The Interprofessional Dedicated Education Unit: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of an Innovative Model for Fostering Interprofessional Collaborative PracticeI: The Journal of Interprofessional Education & Practice, accepted for publication 2019

Trisha A. Zeytoonjian, Henry Mankin M.D., Mark Gebhardt, M.D., Francis Hornicek, M.D.: Decreased Frequency and Increased Survival for Patients with Distal Lower Extremity Sarcomas: The Journal of Foot and Ankle, May 2004

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Awards and Honors

Partners in Excellence Awards for Teamwork, 2010-2013, 2015, 2018

Mass General Brigham

Award for Excellence in Advancing Interprofessional Education and Practice, 2017

For the Interprofessional Dedicated Education Units (IPDEU). This award honors an individual or team that has distinguished itself in advancing interprofessional education or practice (IPE/P) within, or in collaboration with, MGH Institute of Health Professions.

Judith A. Fong Nursing Faculty Prize, 2010

This prize was established in 2006 through the generosity of Richard Bressler and Judith A. Fong, a 1968 graduate of the MGH School of Nursing, to recognize and reward extraordinary clinical excellence by a nursing preceptor.