Leadership and collaboration are critical aspects of a nurse’s
work. The use of effective leadership skills and interprofessional
collaboration allow practitioners to share their perspectives in
guiding patient care for the purposes of promoting optimal health
and well-being. This can only be achieved when individuals have
a true perception of who they are as a person.
Reflection is a key part of building leadership skills and
interprofessional relationships. It allows you to look critically at
experiences and actions through specific lenses. Reflection can
help you consider potential reasons and causes of people’s
actions and behaviors and allow you to think about how to
respond appropriately. This is vital because nurses are often at
the frontlines of interacting with various other disciplines and are
considered full partners when approaching healthcare of
patients.
As you begin to prepare this assessment you are encouraged to
complete the What is Reflective Practice? activity. The activity
consists of five questions that will allow you the opportunity to
practice self-reflection. The information gained from completing
this formative will help with your success on the Collaboration
and Leadership Reflection assessment. Completing formative
assessments or activities is also a way to demonstrate course
engagement.
This assessment is designed to help you become a reflective
practitioner. By reflecting on your leadership style, along with the
styles you’ve observed in others, you will learn to continually
assess and improve your leadership and collaboration skills.
You may choose to reflect on a collaborative interprofessional
experience in a current or former place of practice, or you may
choose to imagine yourself in the five short modules in the
Sentinel U – Interprofessional Collaboration simulation.
Part 1: Create a one-page infographic
resume of your current strengths as a leader
Briefly describe your leadership style. Create a short, one-page
infographic resume or poster to advertise your strengths. You can
use an online tool or simply use the graphics capabilities of Word
to create your infographic.
Here’s an example:
• Infographic Resume Example [PDF].
Part 2: Write a two-page reflection
Reflect on the leadership styles you’ve observed in others, as
well as an interprofessional collaboration experience from your
personal practice. (If you’re having a hard time coming up with an
example from your own experience, complete the five short
modules in the Sentinel U – Interprofessional Collaboration
simulation). What did or would effective leadership look like?
What did or would effective collaboration look like? Remember
that leadership can be demonstrated by those who aren’t in
official leadership positions as well as by formal leaders.
Be sure that your assessment addresses the following criteria.
Please study the rubric carefully so you understand what is
needed for a distinguished score.
• Reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience,
noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in
achieving desired outcomes, and how effective leadership,
or a lack of it, played a role. This may be the Sentinel U
simulation on Interprofessional Collaboration. There are five
modules in this simulation
◦ A simplified gap-analysis approach may be useful:
What happened?
What went well?
What did not go well?
What should have happened?
• Compare and contrast effective leadership with ineffective
leadership. What have you observed in others that works or
doesn’t work when it comes to leadership?
• Given what you’ve shared about effective leadership and
also what effective collaboration looks like, identify best-
practice leadership strategies from the literature that would
improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its
goals, citing at least one article from the literature.
• Also identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration
strategies from the literature that would improve an
interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals, citing at
least one article from the literature.
• What leadership style do you think you need to develop
more to support the above best-practice strategies you’ve
described? How would you do that?
• Include a full reference list from relevant and evidence-
based (published within 5 years) sources, adhering to APA
format.
You will also be required to submit an APA-formatted reference
list for any sources that you cited or used to inform your
reflection.
• Length of submission: Part 1 is a one-page infographic
resume consisting of bullet points and a few sentences. Part
2 is two pages in length double-spaced, not including the
reference page.
• References: Per the instructions above, cite at least 3
professional or scholarly sources of evidence to support the
assertions and proposals you make. Include additional
properly cited references as necessary to support your
statements.
• APA reference page: Submit a correctly formatted APA
reference page that shows all the sources used to develop
the content. You may wish to refer to the APA Module for
more information on applying APA style.
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.
◦ Reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience,
noting ways in which it was successful and
unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes.
◦ Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration
strategies to help a team to achieve its goals and work
together more effectively, citing the work of at least one
article in the presentation.
• Competency 4: Explain how change management theories
and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams
to achieve specific organizational goals.
◦ Describe one’s leadership style.
◦ Compare and contrast effective leadership with
ineffective leadership.
◦ Identify best-practice leadership strategies from the
literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s
ability to achieve its goals, citing the work of at least
one article in the presentation.
◦ Describe a leadership style to develop to better
support best-practice strategies.
• Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-
based communication strategies to impact patient,
interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.
◦ The full reference list is from relevant and evidence-
based (published within 5 years) sources, exhibiting
nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
