Assignment
Create a 6-slide PowerPoint presentation that describes communication barriers within an interdisciplinary team and how those barriers affect patient safety and health care outcomes. Offer a solution in which you recommend evidence-based strategies to improve communication within the team and explain how the strategies benefit the team and patients.
The ability to effectively communicate as part of interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for patient safety and successful health care delivery.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:
• Competency 1: Explain the principles and practices of highly effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
o Describe communication barriers that can occur within an interdisciplinary team.
o Recommend evidence-based strategies to improve communication within an interdisciplinary team.
o Explain how specific communication strategies benefit both team members and patients.
Competency 3: Explain the internal and external factors that can affect the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
o Explain how communication barriers between members of an interdisciplinary team can affect patient safety and health care outcomes.
Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.
o Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, APA formatting, and mechanics.
Effective communication is important in all organizations and is especially important in the area of health care. Communication can come in many forms, but the crucial factor is whether the communication is effective.
Collaboration among teams is important for the delivery of appropriate medical care and for providing the specialized skills necessary to meet the needs of patients and the public. Assessing the needs of a community may involve communication across several public service providers and private entities.
Maintaining open communication and collaboration among teams is essential to assess the needs of a community or those of patients and their families within a health care system. The same communication skills must be evident within the interdisciplinary health care team, or across the public and private sectors in a community, in order to promote collaboration and understanding and to provide the utmost quality service
Internet Resources
Access the following resources by clicking the links provided. Please note that URLs change frequently. Permissions for the following links have either been granted or deemed appropriate for educational use at the time of course publication.
• Proper Patient Care - Team Communication | Transcript.
• Interprofessional Team | Transcript.
• Transforming Conflict to Collaboration in Healthcare | Transcript.
• Interdisciplinary Team Care: Case 1 | Transcript.
Instructions
Imagine you are part of an interdisciplinary health care team in your organization. Although the team has been working together for several months, communication between members is not always efficient or effective, and the situation has become stressful for everyone. The team leader asks you to develop a presentation for the team that addresses the issue.
Preparation
Search the Internet for scholarly and professional peer-reviewed articles on communication. You will need at least three articles to use as support for your work on this assessment.
Directions
Create a 6-slide PowerPoint presentation to examine the communication issue and the risk it creates for positive health care outcomes.
• Describe the types of communication barriers that occur within an interdisciplinary team.
• Explain how the communication barriers can impact patient safety and health care outcomes.
• Recommend specific evidence-based strategies to improve communication within the team.
• Explain how the strategies will benefit team members and patients.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.