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Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

Write a brief introduction (2 to 3 sentences) to your proposal that outlines the issue you are attempting to solve, the part of the organization in which the plan would be carried out, and the desired outcome. This will set the stage for the sections below.

Objective

Describe what your plan will do and what you hope it will accomplish in one or two succinct sentences. Also, comment on how the objective, if achieved, will improve organizational or patient outcomes. For example:

Test a double-loop feedback model for evaluating new product risk with a small group of project managers with the goal of reducing the number of new products that fail to launch. This objective is aligned to the broader organizational goal of becoming more efficient taking products to market and, if successful, should improve outcomes by reducing waste.

Questions and Predictions

For this section ask yourself 3 to 5 questions about your objective and your overall plan. Make a prediction for each question by answering the question you posed. This helps you to define the important aspects of your plan as well as limit the scope and check its ability to be implemented.

For example:

1. How much time will using a double-loop feedback model add to a project manager’s workload?

a. At first, it will likely increase their workloads by 5 to 10 percent. However, as the process is refined and project managers become more familiar and efficient, that percentage will decrease.

Change Theories and Leadership Strategies

For this section, you may wish to draw upon the research you did regarding change theories and leadership for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment. The focus of this section is how those best practices will create buy-in for the project from an interdisciplinary team, improve their collaboration, and/or foster the team’s ability to implement the plan. Be sure that you are including at least one change theory and at least one leadership strategy in your explanation. Always remember to cite your sources; direct quotes require quotation marks and a page or paragraph number to be included in the citation.

Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following:

· What is the theory or strategy?

· How will it likely help an interdisciplinary team to collaborate, implement, and/or buy in to the project plan?

· Make sure to frame this explanation within the organizational context of the proposed plan, that is, your interviewee’s organization.

Team Collaboration Strategy

In this section, begin by further defining the responsibilities and actions that represent the implementation of the plan. One strategy to defining this is to take a “ who, what, where, and when” approach for each team member.

For example:

· Project Manager A will apply the double-loop feedback model on one new product project for a single quarter.

· Project Manager B will apply the double-loop feedback model on all new product projects for a quarter.

Vice President A will review the workloads of project managers using the double-loop feedback model every Thursday for one quarter.

After you have roughly outlined the roles and responsibilities of team members, you will explain one or more collaborative approaches that will enable the team to work efficiently to achieve the plan’s objective. As with the change theories and leadership strategies, you may draw on the research you conducted for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment. However, you are being asked to give a more in-depth explanation of the collaboration approaches and look at how they will help the theoretical interdisciplinary team in your plan proposal.

Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following:

· What is the collaboration approach?

· What types of collaboration and teamwork will best help the interdisciplinary team be successful?

· How is the collaboration approach relevant to the team’s needs and will it help drive success?

· Make sure to frame this explanation in terms of the subject of the plan proposal; that is, your interviewee’s organization.

Required Organizational Resources

For this section, you will be making rough estimates of the resources needed for your plan proposal to be successful. This section does not have to be exact but the estimates should be realistic for the chosen organization.

Items you should include or address in this section:

· What are the staffing needs for your plan proposal?

· What equipment or supplies are needed for your plan proposal?

· Does the organization already have these?

· If so, what is the cost associated with using these resources?

· If not, what is the cost of acquiring these resources?

· What access (to patients, departments, and so forth) is needed?

· Are there any costs associated with these?

· What is the overall financial budget request for the plan proposal?

· Staff time, resource use, resource acquisition, and access charged?

· Remember to include a specific dollar amount in your request.

After you have detailed your budget, make sure that you explain any impacts on organizational resources that could happen if your plan is not undertaken and successful. In other words, if the issue you are try to solve through your plan proposal persists or gets worse, what will be the potential costs to the organization?

References

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Healthcare Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Analysis

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Healthcare Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Analysis

Interdisciplinary collaboration is vital in healthcare, affecting patient care and organizational performance (Wei, Corbett, Ray, & Wei, 2020). For instance, using the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle and strong nursing leadership can foster the right changes. This report starts with an interview that aims to define a focus area of a particular healthcare organization where there is a possibility for an interdisciplinary task. Specifically, the interview aimed at reviewing existing issues and discussing possible initiatives and strategies for their resolution within the context of cooperation. The problem will be described in the context of the interviewed organization, and the report will comprise the following:

Interview Summary

The questions in the interview were based on questions from a mid-sized hospital that aims to deliver efficient, patient-oriented care. Services that are provided within the hospital include emergency services, surgeries, and other treatment services. The interviewee is a nursing supervisor responsible for coordinating patient care activities, co-coordinating communication between the departments, and supervising the nursing workforce.

The primary issue of the lack of a system for effective communication of interdisciplinary teams and consequent delays, and occasional errors were defined. It's important to acknowledge these existing issues. Earlier attempts to manage the problem involved adoption of new communication applications and methods, and new communication policies, which were partially successful because of poor compliance, and absence of staff training.

Despite the strong emphasis on teamwork at the hospital, the interviewee pointed out that interdisciplinary collaboration is weak primarily because departments are too separate and do not have a properly defined system of information exchange. However, the interviewee highlighted some of the benefits of working in interdisciplinary teams, inspiring hope for improvement when such teams work closely together resulting in improvement in patients’ conditions.

Issue Identification

The specific issue derived from the interview is poor communication between interdisciplinary teams, which may cause long intervals of patient care and complications of errors. This is closely connected to the interview element of the study, in which the nursing supervisor underlined the inadequate communication structure between the divisions as a significant concern.

Employing cross-disciplinary work is feasible because of the multifaceted interactions between different workers in the healthcare system, all of whom contribute different skills when addressing a patient (Jones, Willis, Amorim‐Lopes, Drach‐Zahavy, & 15208, 2019). Through better cooperation, the strengths and competency of the team can be utilized effectively to impact patients positively, increase productive working, and decrease instances of medical mistakes, implying that an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach is suitable and required.

Change Theories That Could Lead to an Interdisciplinary Solution

Lewin’s Change Management Model is most applicable in addressing the problem of inefficient communications across interdisciplinary teams (Harrison, et al., 2021). This model involves three stages: unfreezing, changing, and refreezing.

Regarding the specified issue, unfreezing might entail identifying the barriers to communication and designing staff awareness of the necessity for increased interprofessional collaboration. For the changing stage, primary care would involve new communication tools and fixed protocols meant to sensitize interdisciplinary teams into embracing the tools. Last, the refreezing stage would include setting these changes to improve organizational communication as the new standard continues to be reinforced through training.

This model is helpful because it gives an organizational framework for change processes in diverse and large-scale healthcare settings (Cone & Unni, 2020). It has been established to be very useful in initiating and maintaining long-term behavioral modification –strong proof that this approach is credible in addressing communication issues.

Leadership Strategies That Could Lead to an Interdisciplinary Solution

Based on the interview results, transformational leadership is one of the most effective approaches to creating an interdisciplinary approach to solving the communication problem. This leadership style involves mobilizing the workers to ensure that they have a clear vision of the organization's goals and build on it through creativity (Asada, Hashmib, Nasirc, & Khalidd, 2021). By implementing the principles of transformational leadership, a healthcare leader opens up possibilities for collaborative solutions as the team members feel confident in their ability to employ the knowledge to address the given communication issue.

Transformational leadership also leads to conditions where the employees are stimulated to go beyond the call of duty, thus leading to better team problem-solving and idea flow. This leadership style involves the subordinates in the co-decision-making of solutions, ensuring that changes are implemented since it negates communication barriers. The strategy is most appropriate in this case because it encourages trust, communication, and teamwork, which are crucial in interdisciplinary work. Research shows that transformational leadership enhances team flows and patient outcomes and thus should be a valid approach to the named problem.

Collaboration Approaches for Interdisciplinary Teams

Team-based care is a care delivery model that can offer leadership to the association of provisioned interdisciplinary communications to improve teamwork (Sieja, et al., 2021). This approach entails the integration of staff from different fields of specialties into groups to enable them to take responsibility and make decisions regarding patients together. Adopting team-based care is likely to play a crucial role in reducing conflict because it creates a working environment in which members must communicate frequently to solve workflow issues.

Another great model is the Shared governance model, where decisions are made collectively with the staff and where accountability leads to the destruction of barriers and improved communication. Involving the team members is the best way to ensure that all the members speak out, fostering good coordination and solutions to existing issues.

Both approaches are helpful since they directly deal with the communication barriers observed. Research indicates that health care that incorporates teamwork and shared leadership offers the best results to the patients. Such models receive backing from research studies, indicating that these models enhance interdisciplinary collaboration and advancement in overall healthcare.

Conclusion

This report focused on communication failures between interprofessional groups within a healthcare setting and the requirement of an EBP interprofessional approach. Some critical strategies discussed include Lewin’s Change Management Model and transformational leadership that can support change and cooperation. Future directions include engaging in more studies to establish a detailed interdisciplinary plan proposal of practical action steps related to the client’s concerns, including communications and interpersonal relationships. Teamwork, management of change, and leadership are as critical as ever in addressing such challenges and helping patients. Overcoming them will contribute to highly integrated healthcare systems that, in turn, will enhance patients’ outcomes and organizational effectiveness.

References Asada, N., Hashmib, H. B., Nasirc, M., & Khalidd, A. (2021). Transformational leadership relationship with employee creativity: The moderating effect of knowledge sharing and mediating effect of creative self-efficacy. Leadership, 15(8), 1005-1029. DOI: 10.53333/IJICC2013/15913 Cone, C., & Unni, E. (2020). Achieving consensus using a modified Delphi Technique embedded in Lewin's change management model designed to improve faculty satisfaction in a pharmacy school. Research in social and administrative pharmacy, 16(12), 1711-1717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2020.02.007 Harrison, R., Fischer, S., Walpola, R. L., Chauhan, A., Babalola, T., Mears, S., & Le-Dao, H. (2021). Where do models for change management, improvement and implementation meet? A systematic review of the applications of change management models in healthcare. Journal of healthcare leadership, 85-108. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2147/jhl.s289176 Jones, T., Willis, E., Amorim‐Lopes, M., Drach‐Zahavy, A., & 15208, R. C.–C. (2019). Advancing the science of unfinished nursing care: Exploring the benefits of cross‐disciplinary knowledge exchange, knowledge integration and transdisciplinarity. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 75(4), 905-917. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13948 Sieja, A., Kim, E., Holmstrom, H., Rotholz, S., Lin, C. T., Gonzalez, C., & Markley, K. (2021). Multidisciplinary sprint program achieved specialty-specific EHR optimization in 20 clinics. Applied Clinical Informatics, 12(02), 329-339. DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1728699 Wei, H., Corbett, R. W., Ray, J., & Wei, T. L. (2020). A culture of caring: the essence of healthcare interprofessional collaboration. Journal of interprofessional care, 34(3), 324-331. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2019.1641476

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.

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Introduction

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]  Download 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 2–4 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.

Competencies Measured

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:

· 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 succeed and the impacts on those resources if nothing is done to make the improvements sought by the plan.

· Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.

· Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective, including best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.

· Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice within an interdisciplinary team.

· Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.

· 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 is 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.