Create a 2-4 page report on an interview you have conducted with a health care professional colleague. You will identify an issue from the interview that could be improved with an interdisciplinary approach, and review best practices and evidence to address the issue. This is the first of three assessments that build on each other.
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As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, your participation and leadership in intra- and interdisciplinary teams will be vital to the health outcomes for your patients and organization. One way to approach designing an improvement project, and implementing change, is to become knowledgeable about the challenges that the organization is facing. To do this, you will interview a healthcare professional. This can be a peer, a nursing colleague, administrator, or someone who could provide you with sufficient knowledge and information on a particular problem or concern within the organization.
It would be an excellent choice to complete the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Cycle activity prior to developing the report. The activity consists of four questions that create the opportunity to check your understanding of best practices related to each stage of the PDSA cycle, which is one of a number of change models you can read about. The information gained from completing this activity will promote your success with the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification report. This will take just a few minutes of your time and is not graded.
Professional Context
By interviewing a healthcare colleague of your choice, you will begin to gather information about an interprofessional collaboration problem that your colleague is experiencing, or has experienced, in the workplace. You will identify a change theory and leadership strategies that can be applied to address this problem.
Overview
This assessment is the first of three related assessments in which you will gather interview information, design a proposal for interdisciplinary problem-solving, and report on how an interdisciplinary improvement plan could be implemented in a place of practice. At the end of the course, your interviewee will have a proposal plan that they could present to stakeholders to address an interdisciplinary problem in the workplace.
You may interview a healthcare professional such as a fellow learner, nursing colleague, administrator, business partner, or another appropriate person who could provide you with sufficient information regarding an organizational problem or an area in which the organization is seeking improvements. Consult the Interview Guide [DOCX] for an outline of how to prepare and the types of information you will need to complete this project successfully.
Instructions
For this assessment, you will report on the information gathered during your interview. You will discuss the interview strategy that you used to collect information. Your interview strategy should be supported by citations from the literature. The goal of this assessment is to analyze the interview data and identify an issue that would benefit from an interdisciplinary solution. This could be an issue that has not been addressed by an interdisciplinary approach or one that could benefit from improvements related to the interdisciplinary approach currently in use. Additionally, you will prepare for your Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal assessment by researching change theories, leadership strategies, and collaboration approaches that could be relevant to issue you have identified. Please be certain to review the scoring guide to confirm specific required elements of this assessment. Note that there are differences between basic, proficient and distinguished criteria.
Use the Interview and Issue Identification Template [DOCX] to help you stay organized and concise. As you complete the template, make sure you use APA format for in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that are informing your plan, as well as for the reference list at the end. (Because you’re using a template, a title page is optional.)
Additionally, be sure to address the following criteria. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you know what is needed for a distinguished score.
- Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a healthcare organization.
- Identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.
- Describe change theories and a leadership strategy that could help in developing an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.
- Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could be relevant in establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.
- 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.
Additional Requirements
- Length of submission: Use the provided template. 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 three sources of scholarly or professional evidence to support your central ideas. Resources should be no more than 5 years old. See the Capella University Library.
- APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow current APA style. See the APA Module.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
- Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.
- Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could be relevant in establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.
- Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice within an interdisciplinary team.
- Identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.
- Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.
- Describe change theories and a leadership strategy to develop an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.
- 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.
Scoring Guide
Use the scoring guide to understand how your assessment will be evaluated.
Collapse AllCriterion 1Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.DistinguishedSummarizes an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization, noting strategies used in the interview to ensure that sufficient information was gathered.ProficientSummarizes an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.BasicSummarizes an interview but the issues addressed and organizational context are unclear or incomplete.Non PerformanceDoes not summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.Criterion 2Identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.DistinguishedIdentifies an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate, providing one or more specific reasons to support the approach.ProficientIdentifies an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.BasicIdentifies an issue with an unclear connection to the interview or for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach seems inappropriate.Non PerformanceDoes not identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.Criterion 3Describe change theories and a leadership strategy to develop an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.DistinguishedDescribes change theories and a leadership strategy to develop an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue. Notes which sources seem most relevant or credible to the specific organizational issue.ProficientDescribes change theories and a leadership strategy to develop an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.BasicIdentifies but does not describe change theories and a leadership strategy to develop an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.Non PerformanceDoes not identify change theories and a leadership strategy to develop an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.Criterion 4Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could be relevant in establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.DistinguishedDescribes collaboration approaches from the literature that could be relevant in establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue. Notes which sources seem most relevant or credible to the specific organizational issue.ProficientDescribes collaboration approaches from the literature that could be relevant in establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.BasicIdentifies but does not describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could be relevant in establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.Non PerformanceDoes not describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could be relevant in establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.Criterion 5Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.DistinguishedOrganizes content with a clear purpose. Content flows logically with smooth transitions using coherent paragraphs, correct grammar/punctuation,ProficientOrganizes content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.BasicOrganizes content with some logical flow and smooth transitions. Contains errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.Non PerformanceDoes not organize content for ideas. Lacks logical flow and smooth transitions.Criterion 6Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.DistinguishedExhibits strict and flawless adherence to APA formatting of headings, in-text citations, and references. Quotes and paraphrases correctly.ProficientApplies APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.BasicApplies APA formatting to in-text citations, headings and references incorrectly and/or inconsistently, detracting noticeable from the content. Inconsistently uses headings, quotes and/or paraphrasing.Non PerformanceDoes not apply APA formatting to headings, in-text citations, and references. Does not use quotes or paraphrase correctly.
