Assignment Task: 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. 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.
Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification: Interview Guide
For the Interviews and Interdisciplinary Issue identification assessment, your first step will be to interview a classmate, a nursing colleague, administrator, business partner, or another appropriate person who could provide you with sufficient information regarding an organizational problem that they are experiencing or have experienced, or an area in which they are seeking improvements. This guide provides a selection of questions that you should consider asking your interviewee. They are by no means questions you must ask, or the only questions you should ask. Feel free to ask your own questions and follow-ups as the interview proceeds. These are merely a guide to get you started.
Sample questions:
1. How would you describe your organization?
2. What is your position within the organization?
3. What are your primary duties in your position?
4. How would you describe some current or past issues within your organization?
5. How did or do these issues affect your ability to complete your duties?
6. How have you, or the organization, attempted to address these issues?
o What has been done and what were the results?
o What has been the role or actions of leadership in any attempts to address these issues?
- How effective do you think their actions have been?
7. What is the general attitude toward interdisciplinary collaboration at your organization?
8. Have you experienced working on an interdisciplinary or interprofessional team?
o How would you characterize the experience?
o To what degree do you think overall organizational attitudes toward collaboration influenced this experience?
Additional Requirements:
- 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
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
- 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 collaborative 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.
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 potential change theories and leadership strategies 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.