Nursing Assignment 2 4005

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

This is RESOURCES that you can use to help with this assignment. If you need me to get the links I will.

These readings focus on interviewing skills and techniques, along with more on change theories. Let’s see if you can begin to distinguish what type of leadership style is most effective with promoting collaboration and change in practice for the purposes of enhancing patient outcomes and promoting sustainability of the organization!

These reading lists offer more to consider regarding focusing on interprofessional collaboration and leadership. Now that we’ve discussed leadership skills, collaboration, change theories, and the interviewing process, along with effective communication, let’s consider the use of evidence-based practice and find out how it impacts patient and healthcare outcomes.

This Capella University Library guide addresses basic EBP principles and presents collected resources for learning about EBP in greater depth.

View the Four Change Theories as presented visually here to familiarize yourself at a high level with some of the most important theories. This will help you get a better understanding as you read more about them in your readings. It will also help you as you think about which change theories apply to your assessment.

If you haven’t already, view the Four Spheres of Care to familiarize yourself with the American Association of Colleges of Nurses (AACN) four spheres, which will play a role in broadening your understanding of care and also help you reflect on which areas you lack clinical experience. You will be asked to reflect on the application of the four spheres of care later in your program during your practicum experience, including completing four reflective journal entries, each aligned with one of the Four Spheres of Care. So this chance to familiarize yourself with these four spheres is a way to also begin thinking about potential clinical sites.