Create a 2-4 page report on an interview you have conducted with a health care professional. You will identify an issue from the interview that could be improved with an interdisciplinary approach, and review best practices and evidence to address the issue.
As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, your participation and leadership in interdisciplinary teams will be vital to the health outcomes for your patients and organization. One way to approach designing an improvement project is to use the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement describes it thus:
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is shorthand for testing a change in the real work setting—by planning it, trying it, observing the results, and acting on what is learned. This is the scientific method adapted for action-oriented learning…Essentially, the PDSA cycle helps you test out change ideas on a smaller scale before evaluating the results and making adjustments before potentially launching into a somewhat larger scale project (n.d.).
You might also recognize that the PDSA cycle resembles the nursing process. The benefit of gaining experience with this model of project design is that it provides nurses with an opportunity to ideate and lead improvements. For this assessment, you will not be implementing all of the PDSA cycle. Instead, you are being asked to interview a health care professional of your choice to determine what kind of interdisciplinary problem he or she is experiencing or has experienced in the workplace. This interview, in Assessment 2, will inform the research that you will conduct to propose a plan for interdisciplinary collaboration in Assessment 3.
It would be an excellent choice to complete the 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. The information gained from completing this formative 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.
Reference
Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (n.d.). How to improve. http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/HowtoImprove/default.aspx
Demonstration of Proficiency
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 that could help 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.
Professional Context
This assessment will introduce the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Model to create change in an organization. By interviewing a colleague of your choice, you will begin gathering information about an interprofessional collaboration problem that your colleague is experiencing or has experienced. You will identify a change theory and leadership strategies to help solve this problem.
Scenario
This assessment is the first of three related assessments in which you will gather interview information (Assessment 2); design a proposal for interdisciplinary problem-solving, (Assessment 3); and report on how an interdisciplinary improvement plan could be implemented in a place of practice (Assessment 4). At the end of the course, your interviewee will have a proposal plan based on the PDSA cycle that he or she could present to stakeholders to address an interdisciplinary problem in the workplace.
For this assessment, you will need to interview a health care professional such as a fellow learner, nursing colleague, administrator, business partner, or another appropriate person who could provide you with sufficient information regarding an organizational problem that he or she is experiencing or has experienced, or an area where they are seeking improvements. Consult the Interview Guide [DOCX] for an outline of how to prepare and the types of information you will need to complete this project successfully.
Remember: this is just the first in a series of three assessments.
Instructions
For this assessment, you will report on the information that you collected in your interview, analyzing the interview data and identifying a past or current issue that would benefit from an interdisciplinary approach. 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 being used. You will discuss the interview strategy that you used to collect information. Your interview strategy should be supported by citations from the literature. Additionally, you will start laying the foundation for your Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal (Assessment 3) by researching potential 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 scores.
When submitting your plan, use the Interview and Issue Identification Template [DOCX], which will help you to stay organized and concise. As you complete the template, make sure you use APA format for in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that are informing your plan, as well as for the reference list at the end.
Additionally, be sure to address 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.
Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.
Identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.
Describe potential change theories and leadership strategies that could inform an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.
Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could facilitate establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.
Communicate with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, and using current APA style.
Thank you for your work on this assignment. I think you did a very nice job summarizing an interview focused on a current issue at a health care organization, however the exact issue is unclear. Overall, this is a great start to this Assessment, however, some material is missing and some clarifcation is needed on the exact healthcare issue you identified from your interview. I made some recommendations on how some criterion might achieve a higher performance score and what you need to do for Criteria 6 to be Satisfactory. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you, Dr. Heidi
**As a reminder, since you are required to resubmit for a higher grade, please highlight your changes in yellow so I do not miss any of your hard work and great additions and corrections. Thanks so much!Did not apply APA formatting to headings, in-text citations, and references. Did not use quotes and did not paraphrase correctly. When format is not correct, your very good ideas do not have the impact that they could, if format were clear. I hope you will use the Capella writing center to help you with this: https://academicwriter-apa-org.library.capella.edu. You may also wish to check out the learner success lab for additional writing resources: https://campus.capella.edu/school-of-nursing-and-health-sciences/nhs-learner-success-lab
-Your paper should all be in the same font and size, which should be Times New Roman, size 12 and the entire paper should be written in paragraph form with double spacing throughout
-be sure to use headers to separate all the sections of your paper and ensure you are covering all material-for example, you should have the following headers in this paper: Interview Summary; Issue Identification; Change Management; Leadership Strategies; Interdisciplinary Collaboration Strategies
-This intext citation: (Melnyk, Fineout-Overholt, Gallagher-Ford, & Kaplan, 2012) should be (Melnyk et al., 2012)-please see below how to properly format, according to the number of authors present:
Proper intext citation for paraphrasing:
(Author, year) for 1 author present
(Author & Author, year) for 2 authors present
(Author et al., year) for more than 2 authors present
-In addition, these sentences for that intext citation are very similar to the publication, close enough that part of it should be in quotation marks-your SafeAssign score was 83%, mostly because of this information that was long and very close to the original publication-You are expected to learn to paraphrase materials to enhance your understanding and learning. Please use this Resource for help paraphrasing: https://academicwriter-apa-org.library.capella.edu/learn/browse/QG-25; also, please review your SafeAssign score before submitting and if it is high, consider doing some editing before submitting for a grade
-The main reason for the Non-performance for this Criteria is because you have only cited 1 publication in your paper (at least 3 references are required to be cited for this course); 2 the references you have are outdated (they should be within the past 5 years); and the Reference page has several errors *To get a Satisfactory for this Criteria, please cite at least 3 references in your paper, have up to date references, and please use Academic Writer to help you with correctly formatting the Reference page
