Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes
For this assessment you will create a 5-10 minute video reflection on an experience in which you collaborated interprofessionally, as well as a brief discussion of an interprofessional collaboration scenario and how it could have been better approached.
Your reflection assessment will focus on both your professional experience and the Vila Health activity as described in the scenario.
Demonstration of Proficiency
· Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.
1. Identify how poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources supported by evidence from the literature.
1. Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
2. Reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes.
2. Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team to achieve its goals and work more effectively together.
1. Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.
3. Identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature, which would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals.
1. Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.
4. Communicate via video with clear sound and light.
4. The full reference list is from relevant and evidence-based (published within 5 years) sources, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
As part of an initiative to build effective collaboration at your Vila Health site, where you are a nurse, you have been asked to reflect on a project or experience in which you collaborated interprofessionally and examine what happened during the collaboration, identifying positive aspects and areas for improvement.
You have also been asked to review a series of events that took place at another Vila Health location and research interprofessional collaboration best practices and use the lessons learned from your experiences to make recommendations for improving interprofessional collaboration among their team. Your task is to create a 5–10 minute video reflection with suggestions for the Vila Health team that can be shared with leadership as well as Vila Health colleagues at your site.
Instructions
Using Kaltura, record a 5–10 minute video reflection on an interprofessional collaboration experience from your personal practice, proposing suggestions on how to improve the collaboration presented in the Vila Health: Collaboration for Change activity (See below)
Be sure that your assessment addresses the following criteria. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you will know 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.
· Identify how poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources, citing supporting evidence from the literature.
· Identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals, citing at least one author from the literature.
· Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team achieve its goals and work together, citing the work of at least one author.
· Communicate in a professional manner, is easily audible, and uses proper grammar. Format reference list in current APA style.
You will need to relate an experience that you have had collaborating on a project. This could be at your current or former place of practice, or another relevant project that will enable you to address the requirements. In addition to describing your experience, you should explain aspects of the collaboration that helped the team make progress toward relevant goals or outcomes, as well as aspects of the collaboration that could have been improved.
A simplified gap-analysis approach may be useful:
· What happened?
· What went well?
· What did not go well?
3. What should have happened?
After your personal reflection, examine the scenario in the Vila Health activity and discuss the ways in which the interdisciplinary team did not collaborate effectively and the negative implications for the human and financial resources of the interdisciplinary team and the organization as a whole.
Building on this investigation, identify at least one leadership best practice or strategy that you believe would improve the team’s ability to achieve their goals. Be sure to identify the strategy and its source or author and provide a brief rationale for your choice of strategy.
Additionally, identify at least one interdisciplinary collaboration best practice or strategy to help the team achieve its goals and work more effectively together. Again, identify the strategy, its source, and reasons why you think it will be effective.
You are encouraged to integrate lessons learned from your self-reflection to support and enrich your discussion of the Vila Health activity.
You are required to submit an APA-formatted reference list for any sources that you cited specifically in your video or used to inform your presentation. The Example Kaltura Reflection will show you how to cite scholarly sources in the context of an oral presentation.
Refer to the Campus tutorial Using Kaltura [PDF] as needed to record and upload your reflection.
Additional Requirements
· References: Cite at least 3 professional or scholarly sources of evidence to support the assertions you make in your video. 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 you used to create and deliver your video.
Vila Health: Collaboration for Change
Scenario (briefly explained): Health care facility began using a different EHR and told staff that it would be great and make their lives so much easier. That did not happen. There were a lot of glitches and management was not there to support them, nor was IT. Nurses began getting frustrated with each other as well as management/IT. It was not a good work or healing environment.
Question:
What are some of the ways in which staff collaboration failed in the implementation of the EHR?
Answer:
There was limited training for staff. When staff was struggling with the new system, management and IT were not there to support them.
Question:
What could have been done differently on the management side to facilitate better collaboration?
Answer:
Management could have guided the staff through the process with trainings and extra support from IT.
Question:
How about on the care staff side?
Answer:
Staff were very upset by how this new system was brought into the work place. More teamwork could have helped the situation. Instead, they started getting frustrated with each other.
