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Criteria Non- performance Basic Proficient Distinguished

Describe an objective and predictions for an

evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific

goal related to improving patient or

organizational outcomes.

Does not describe an objective and predictions for an evidence- based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.

Identifies an objective for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan but does not clearly explain how the objective will help achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.

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

Describes an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes, including methods from the literature that may be used to determine success.

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.

Does not 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.

Describes a change theory and a leadership strategy but the relevance to the success of interdisciplinary team in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan is not clearly explained and no evidence is provided.

Explains 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, providing real-world examples relevant to the health care organization that is the context for the plan.

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.

Does not explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Does not cite best practices of

Explains collaboration but not in terms of an interdisciplinary team or does not include best practices from the literature.

Explains the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective, including best practices of interdisciplinary

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

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Criteria Non- performance Basic Proficient Distinguished

interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.

collaboration from the literature.

the literature. Provides real-world examples relevant to the health care organization that is the context for the plan.

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.

Does not 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.

Identifies organizational resources needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if nothing is done to make the improvements sought by the plan. Does not include a financial budget.

Explains 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.

Explains 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. Provides real-world examples relevant to the health care organization that is the context for the plan.

Organize content so ideas flow logically

with smooth transitions; contains

few errors in grammar/punctuation,

word choice, and spelling.

Does not organize content for ideas. Lacks logical flow and smooth transitions.

Organizes content with some logical flow and smooth transitions. Contains errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.

Organizes content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.

Organizes content with a clear purpose. Content flows logically with smooth transitions using coherent paragraphs, correct grammar/punctuation, word choice, and free of spelling errors.

Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting

nearly flawless adherence to APA

format.

Does not apply APA formatting to headings, in- text citations, and references. Does not use quotes or paraphrase correctly.

Applies APA formatting to in-text citations, headings and references incorrectly and/or inconsistently, detracting noticeably from the content. Inconsistently uses headings, quotes and/or paraphrasing.

Applies APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.

Exhibits strict and flawless adherence to APA formatting of headings, in-text citations, and references. Quotes and paraphrases correctly.

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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

4010 Assessment 3 instructions.docx

NHSFPX4010 ASSESSMENT 3 2

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.

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.

DEMONSTRATIONS 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.

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 ATTACHED 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 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.

COMPENTENCIES 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.

· 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.

ACTIVITY (7 questions)

1. Which of the following statements helps to explain what a budget is? (Select all that apply)

Select all answers that apply

a) Typically, a financial forecast of the costs and revenue gains of providing care.

b) A plan for the resources, especially financial, needed to deliver care by a team.

c) A guess about how much working with an individual patient will cost.

d) A plan which helps to coordinate the financial goals of an organization.

2. Which of the following are benefits of developing a budget? (Select all that apply)

Select all answers that apply

a) It can help minimize operational surprises.

b) It helps to create cost awareness.

c) It can be a means of developing nurse leaders and nurse managers.

d) It can help reduce waste.

3. True or False: A fixed cost is one that changes in a linear fashion related to the amount of good or service that is provided by the company. For example, if a hospital treated 100 patients, at an expense of $10,000 total dollars, if it were to treat 200 patients it would cost $20,000.

Select one answer

a) True

b) False

4. True or False: A variable cost is one that changes in proportion to its activity, in other words the amount used. For example, if more a specific drug is used, the hospitals costs associated with that drug will increase.

Select one answer

a) True

b) False

5. Which of the following are examples of fixed costs in health care? (Select all that apply)

Select all answers that apply

a) Staff base salaries.

b) Rent for buildings.

c) Staff benefits.

d) Hospital food costs.

6. Which of the following are examples of variably costs in health care? (Select all that apply)

Select all answers that apply

a) Drugs.

b) Utility fees.

c) Consumable products.

d) Capital purchases.

7. In what ways is an understanding of budgeting and finance beneficial to a nurse’s career and organization?

RESOURCES to use

Applying PDSA

· Crowfoot, D., & Prasad, V. (2017). Using the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PSDA) cycle to make change in general practice. InnovAIT, 10(7), 425–430.

· This article details principles of PDSA, offering a variety of resources for implementing and assessing the success of change efforts.

· McNamara, D. A., Rafferty, P., & Fitzpatrick, F. (2016). An improvement model to optimise hospital interdisciplinary learning. International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 29(5), 550–558.

· This article presents a study in which the PDSA cycle was applied to drive continuous improvement in interdisciplinary learning within a health care setting.

· Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (n.d.). Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) worksheet . http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/Tools/PlanDoStudyActWorksheet.aspx

· While you are not expected to use this worksheet, it has been used in many health care organizations and is offered as a supplementary resource.

· McGowan, M., & Reid, B. (2018). Using the Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle to enhance a patient feedback system for older adults. British Journal of Nursing, 27(16), 936–941.

· This article presents a study in which PDSA was used to refine a patient-feedback system.

Evidence-Based Practice and Improvement

· Duffy, J. R., Culp, S., Marchessault, P., & Olmsted, K. (2020). Longitudinal comparison of hospital nurses' values, knowledge, and implementation of evidence-based practice. The Journal of Continuing Education in Nursing, 51(5), 209‒214.

· This article reviews the results of a study looking at how a hospital-based residency program helps the RN to administer EBP care.

· Friesen, M., Brady, J., Miligan, R., & Christensen, P. (2017). Findings from a pilot study: Bringing evidence-based practice to the bedside. Worldviews of Evidence Based Nursing, 14(1), 22‒34.

· This article reviews the results of a study designed to evaluate a structured EBP educational process with mentoring.

· Rahmayanti, E. I., Kadar, K. S., & Saleh, A. (2020). Readiness, barriers, and potential strength of nursing in implementing evidence-based practice. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 13(2), 1203‒1211.

· This article identifies the readiness, barriers and strengths to carry out EBP care.

· Woods, A. (n.d.). Evidence-based practice: Improving practice, improving outcomes (Part one) [Video] | Transcript. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvenUa3Ww8o

· This video discusses the value of, and current challenges in, implementing evidence-based practice in health care organizations.

RESOURCES to use (continued)

Interprofessional Collaboration

· Ellenbecker, C., & Edward, J. (2016). Conducting nursing research to advance and inform health policy. Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, 17(4), 208–217.

· This article discusses how nurses should conduct research to have an impact on health care policies.

· Schot, E., Tummers, L., & Noordegraaf, M. (2020). Working on working together: A systematic review on how healthcare professionals contribute to interprofessional collaboration. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 34(3), 332–342.

· This article presents metadata on strategies to promote interprofessional collaboration.

· 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.

· This article offers a view of factors that influence interprofessional collaboration.

· Sigmon, L. B. (2020). Interprofessional collaboration made easy. American Nurse Today, 15(11), 36–38.

· This article presents several effective strategies that can improve collaboration in the health care team.

· Interprofessional Education Collaborative. (n.d.). Recommended links . https://www.ipecollaborative.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=41:recommended-links&catid=20:site-content&Itemid=135

· IPEC's list of recommended links includes professional associations, centers for interprofessional education, supporting organizations, and a short video showing an example of interprofessional education.

Leadership

· Clausen, C., Emed, J., Frunchak, V., Purden, M., & Sol Bruno, F. (2019). Toward resilient nurse leaders: The leadership-in-action program in nursing (LEAP-IN). Nursing Leadership (1910-622X), 32(3), 40–56.

· This article describes a tailored leadership development program.

4010 Assessment 3 START HERE.docx

This is a copy of the first paper I wrote talking about the health problem this particular organization is having which is:

poor communication & coordination among different departments

You are to make a proposal as to what can be done to improve communication. It needs to be something tangible.

Ideas:

1. Perhaps paying employees for an extra hour of work to come before their shift start for morning a meeting for the next 6 months then once per month thereafter, to better plan/collaborate patient care.

2. Providing work cellphones OR pagers w encrypted texting capabilities assigned at the beginning of the shift and be returned at the end of the shift

3. Maybe the IT department can install wall-mounted bedside computer in each room equipped with scanners so that nurses have quick access to the patient chart without relying on the W.O.W. (workstation on wheels) to deliver patient care. You can pretend that the mid-sized healthcare facility doesn’t already have this

4. Hiring an extra secretary to help better coordinate care on the unit between the doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, and external departments Pretend there’s already one, but you want to hire another

**These are only ideas, if you think of something better. Go ahead as long as it makes sense

( start of the paper)

Interview & Interdisciplinary Issue Identification

For this assessment, an interview was conducted with a nurse manager working at a mid-sized healthcare facility. She is qualified with over 10 years of experience and handles financial and human resources at her facility. In the interview, she reported that her job description requires her to ensure the satisfaction of patients with the healthcare services being delivered, as well as maintaining a safe, healthy working environment for the staff. The first problem she mentioned is related to interprofessional communication and cooperation that stems from a lack of collaboration among the staff. This issue causes significant time loss when it comes to delivering optimum patient care. She also mentioned that prior attempts to deal with this issue, for example, through conducting team-building workshops and arranging interprofessional meetings, were not very effective. It was because of a lack of proper follow-up and a the highly established dysfunctional organizational culture that was based on an independent working approach. The organizational currently in place fosters individualism and does not require healthcare professionals to collaborate. The interviewee also stressed the need for cultural changes aimed at increasing the levels of team integration and common goals. They have had prior experiences in interdisciplinary collaboration, which resulted in improvement in all kinds of results; thus, they understand the significance it holds.

Issue Identification

Reviewing the interview revealed that the most significant issue mentioned by the nurse manager is poor communication and coordination among different departments of a healthcare facility. This leads to prolonged patient care and ineffective outcome coordination between healthcare professionals involved in the client's care process. An evidence-based interdisciplinary approach should be used as a problem-solving model because it allows a teamwork approach to patient care, which enhances and optimizes the delivery of care by different health specialists. This is a favorable approach that fosters cooperation amongst departments and helps to form proper working relationships.

Change Theories That Could Lead to an Interdisciplinary Solution

The PDSA or Plan-Do-Study-Act model is a suitable and applicable approach to use as a change theory in handling interprofessional relationships at the healthcare facility. This is a cyclical change model where an intended change is planned and tested on a small scale, and then, by understanding the results, it is applied on a broader level (McNicholas et al., 2019). Thus, through PDSA, the departments can implement trial collaborative projects and assess their effectiveness and mitigate the shortcomings affecting teamwork and communication. This model is useful because it presents a series of consecutive steps that are followed to solve the problems related to communication observed in the interview. It fosters sustainability and frequent changes that help eliminate the individualistic attitude firmly rooted in the organization. The use of the PDSA is an evidenced-based model that has been utilized by a number of healthcare organizations looking to improve efficiency in their healthcare environments to enhance quality.

Leadership Strategies That Could Lead to an Interdisciplinary Solution

Interdisciplinary collaboration could be improved by applying transformational leadership as one of the effective strategies. This approach relies on encouraging and engaging the staff in order to get them to accomplish the set objectives and adopt new strategies (Iqbal et al., 2019). Transformational leaders feature a system where people can freely exchange information with other employees, establish a social vision, and foster professional growth promoted as the means of eradicating the use of the individualistic decision-making approach to every health problem. Transformational leadership helps to reduce such barriers and promotes the development of an organization's communication structure that supports the rules and can help to reduce the identified communication barriers. It is also invaluable in this respect since it corresponds to the already outlined demand for a new culture to improve teamwork and better-defined goals. This approach is considered credible based on a research article by Ystaas et al. (2023). It’s evidenced by authors who give their account and insights into the application of this approach in improving team performance and set out ways of bringing out the changes required in an organization. This source has already been recognized in the field of nursing, which means that transformational leadership can be used to solve the problems of interdisciplinary cooperation in the selected facility.

Collaboration Approaches for Interdisciplinary Teams

The TeamSTEPPS (Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) tool is a very useful strategy that can be utilized to enhance collaboration among healthcare providers of different departments. While discussing the concept of TeamSTEPPS, it is important to understand that it focuses on the problems in communication, leadership, coordination, and situation awareness. The healthcare facility will be laying down strategies that will develop a good context for interdisciplinary work that, in turn, will enhance the general flow of work. It is also evident that this approach is most relevant because it tackles communication problems. TeamSTEPPS contains many useful strategies and approaches aimed at strengthening inter and intra-professional collaboration and ensuring all participants share the same objectives. I’ve even heard of the TeamSTEPPS at facilities I’ve worked at. The credibility of TeamSTEPPS can validated through the studies conducted by Kuriyan et al. (2021), where the effectiveness of this program has been tested and proven effective in enhancing teamwork and security for patients.

( end of the paper)

References

Iqbal, K., Fatima, T., & Naveed, M. (2019). The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Nurses' Organizational Commitment: A Multiple Mediation Model. European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education, 10(1), 262–275. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe10010021

Kuriyan, A., Kinkler, G., Cidav, Z., Kang-Yi, C., Eiraldi, R., Salas, E., & Wolk, C. B. (2021). Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) to Improve Collaboration in School Mental Health: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Study. JMIR research protocols, 10(2), e26567. https://doi.org/10.2196/26567

McNicholas, C., Lennox, L., Woodcock, T., Bell, D., & Reed, J. E. (2019). Evolving quality improvement support strategies to improve Plan-Do-Study-Act cycle fidelity: a retrospective mixed-methods study. BMJ quality & safety, 28(5), 356–365. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2017-007605

Ystaas, L. M. K., Nikitara, M., Ghobrial, S., Latzourakis, E., Polychronis, G., & Constantinou, C. S. (2023). The Impact of Transformational Leadership in the Nursing Work Environment and Patients' Outcomes: A Systematic Review. Nursing reports (Pavia, Italy), 13(3), 1271–1290. https://doi.org/10.3390/nursrep13030108