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For this assessment, you will 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.
Demostraction of proficiency
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Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve
desired patient and systems outcomes.
o Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care
organization.
o Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could be relevant in
establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational
issue.
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Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice within an
interdisciplinary team.
o 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.
o 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.
o Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions; contains few
errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and spelling.
o Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting nearly
flawless adherence to APA format.
Scenario
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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] Download 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], Download 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.
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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.
Additional requirement
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Length of submission: Use the provided template. 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.
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