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Create a 3 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.
Interview questions.. WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS STAFFING SHORTAGES IN HEALTHCARE
· Will you please describe the organization in which you work?
· What is your position within the organization?
· What are your primary duties in your position?
· Would you describe some current or past issues within your organization?
· How did these issues impact your ability to complete your duties?
· Have you, or the organization, attempted to address these issues?
· If so, what has been done and what were the results?
· What has been the role or actions of leadership in any attempts to address these issues?
· How effective do you think their actions have been?
· What is the general cultural toward interdisciplinary collaboration at your organization?
· Have you experienced working on an interdisciplinary or interprofessional team?
· How was the experience?
· To what degree do you think overall organizational culture towards collaboration influenced this experience?
Interview Summary
Summarize your interview in this section. Be sure to relate concise information about:
· The healthcare organization that was discussed in the interview.
· The interviewee’s role and duties.
· The relevant issues at the organization.
· Any relevant comments on the actions taken by the organization or leadership previously and their effectiveness.
· The organizational culture related to collaboration.
· Any relevant collaboration or interdisciplinary team experience your interviewee has had.
The goal of this section is to convey what was discussed at the interview and set yourself up to identify an issue to pursue in throughout the rest of this assessment (and future assessments in this course), as well as have enough information about the situation at the organization to relate theories, strategies, and approaches to.
Issue Identification
Identify the issue from the interview that you think an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach is appropriate. Provide one or more specific reasons why an interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate for the issue.
Change Theories That Could Lead to an Interdisciplinary Solution
For this section look to the literature and describe one or more change theories that would help to develop an interdisciplinary solution to the identified issue. Also, you should briefly note the relevance and credibility of the source(s) that you cite.
Another way to think through this section is:
· What is the change theory?
· How could it heal create an interdisciplinary solution?
· How relevant is the theory to your specific identified issue?
· How credible is the source?
Leadership Strategies That Could Lead to an Interdisciplinary Solution
This section is similar to the previous one, except you will be looking to the literature to help you describe one or more leadership strategy that would help develop an interdisciplinary solution to the identified issue. Also, you should briefly note the relevance and credibility of the source(s) that you cite.
Another way to think through this section is:
· What is the leadership strategy?
· How could it create an interdisciplinary solution?
· How relevant is the strategy to your specific identified issue?
· How credible is the source?
Collaboration Approaches for Interdisciplinary Teams
Again, this section will be similar to the previous one, except that the focus will be on collaboration approaches. Depending on if your interviewee’s organization makes frequent use of interdisciplinary teams or not, your focus in this section may be on how to establish interdisciplinary teams and a collaborative foundation or how to improve the collaboration within an already established team. You should also briefly note the relevance and credibility of the source(s) that you cite.
Another way to think through this section is:
· What are the best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature?
· How could it help establish or improve collaboration?
· How relevant is the approach to your specific identified issue?
· How credible is the source?
