- For this assessment you will create a 2-4 page
plan proposal for an interprofessional team to collaborate and work toward
driving improvements in the organizational issue you identified in the
second assessment.
The health care industry
is always striving to improve patient outcomes and attain organizational goals.
Nurses can play a critical role in achieving these goals; one way to encourage
nurse participation in larger organizational efforts is to create a shared
vision and team goals (Mulvale et al., 2016). Participation in
interdisciplinary teams can also offer nurses opportunities to share their
expertise and leadership skills, fostering a sense of ownership and collegiality.
You are encouraged to
complete the Budgeting for Nurses activity before you develop the plan
proposal. The activity consists of seven questions that will allow you the
opportunity to check your knowledge of budgeting basics and as well as the
value of financial resource management. The information gained from completing
this formative will promote success with the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal.
Completing this activity also demonstrates your engagement in the course,
requires just a few minutes of your time, and is not graded.
Demonstration of Proficiency
- Competency 1: Explain strategies
for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational
health.
- Explain organizational
resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to be a
success and the impacts on those resources if nothing is done, related
to the improvements sought by the plan.
- Competency 2: Explain how
interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient
and systems outcomes.
- Describe an objective and
predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a
specific objective related to improving patient or organizational
outcomes.
- Explain the collaboration
needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of
achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of
interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
- Competency 4: Explain how change
management theories and leadership strategies can enable
interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.
- Explain a change theory and a
leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that are most
likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and
implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
- Competency 5: Apply
professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to
impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.
- Organize content so ideas flow
logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in
grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
- Apply APA formatting to in-text
citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA
format.
Reference
Mulvale, G., Embrett, M., &
Shaghayegh, D. R. (2016). ‘Gearing up’ to improve interprofessional
collaboration in primary care: A systematic review and conceptual
framework. BMC Family Practice, 17.
Professional Context
This assessment will
allow you to describe a plan proposal that includes an analysis of best
practices of interprofessional collaboration, change theory, leadership
strategies, and organizational resources with a financial budget that can be
used to solve the problem identified through the interview you conducted in the
prior assessment.
Scenario
Having reviewed the
information gleaned from your professional interview and identified the issue,
you will determine and present an objective for an interdisciplinary
intervention to address the issue.
Note: You will not be expected to implement the plan during this course. However, the plan should be
evidence-based and realistic within the context of the issue and your
interviewee’s organization.
Instructions
For this assessment, use
the context of the organization where you conducted your interview to develop a
viable plan for an interdisciplinary team to address the issue you identified.
Define a specific patient or organizational outcome or objective based on the
information gathered in your interview.
The goal of this
assessment is to clearly lay out the improvement objective for your planned
interdisciplinary intervention of the issue you identified. Additionally, be
sure to further build on the leadership, change, and collaboration research you
completed in the previous assessment. Look for specific, real-world ways in
which those strategies and best practices could be applied to encourage buy-in
for the plan or facilitate the implementation of the plan for the best possible
outcome.
Using the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template [DOCX] will
help you stay organized and concise. As you complete each section of the
template, make sure you apply APA format to in-text citations for the evidence
and best practices that inform your plan, as well as the reference list at the
end.
Additionally, be sure
that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the grading
criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you
understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
- Describe an objective and
predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a
specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes. - Explain a change theory and a
leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely
to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and
implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan. - Explain the collaboration needed
by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the
plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary
collaboration from the literature. - Explain organizational
resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to succeed
and the impacts on those resources if the improvements described in the
plan are not made. - Communicate the
interdisciplinary plan, with writing that is clear, logically organized,
and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA
style.
Additional Requirements
- Length of
submission: Use the provided template.
Remember that part of this assessment is to make the plan easy to
understand and use, so it is critical that you are clear and concise.
Most submissions will be 2 to 4 pages in length. Be sure to include a
reference page at the end of the plan. - Number of
references: Cite a minimum of 3
sources of scholarly or professional evidence that support your central
ideas. Resources should be no more than 5 years old. - APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and
reference list follow current APA style.
Note: Faculty may use the
Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assessment. The Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you
with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills.
You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assessment, once
your work has been evaluated.
Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the
final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete
the final Capstone course.
- SCORING
GUIDE
Use the scoring guide to
understand how your assessment will be evaluated.