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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.
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 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.
Portfolio Prompt: Remember to save the final assessment to your ePortfolio so that you may refer to it as you complete the final Capstone course.
Competencies Measured
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.
Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
·        
How
would you describe your organization? 
·        
What
is your position within the organization? Nurse
·        
What
are your primary duties in your position?
·        
How
would you describe some current or past issues within your organization?
·        
How
did or do these issues affect your ability to complete your duties?
·        
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?
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How
effective do you think their actions have been?
·        
What
is the general attitude toward interdisciplinary collaboration at your
organization?
·        
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?
Interview and
Interdisciplinary Issue Identification (cover page)
YOUR NAME
Course
University
MONTH DAY, YEAR
Interview Summary
Summarize your
interview in this section. Be sure to relate concise information about:
·        
the health care
organization that was discussed in the interview.
·        
the interviewee’s role
and duties.
·        
the relevant issues at
the organization.
·        
any relevant comments
on the actions taken by the organization or leadership previously and their
effectiveness.
·        
the organizational
culture related to collaboration.
·        
any relevant
collaboration or interdisciplinary team experience you interviewee has had.
The goal of
this section is to convey what was discussed at the interview and identify an
issue to pursue throughout the rest of this assessment (and future assessments
in this course), as well as have enough information to relate theories,
strategies, and approaches to the situation at the organization.
Issue Identification
Identify the
issue from the interview for which you consider an evidence-based
interdisciplinary approach appropriate. Provide one or more specific reasons
why an interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate for the issue.
Change Theories That Could Lead to an Interdisciplinary
Solution
For this section, look to
the literature and describe one or more change theories that would help to
develop an interdisciplinary solution to the identified issue. Also, you should
briefly note the relevance and credibility of the sources that you cite.
Another way to think
through this section is:
·        
What is the change theory?
·        
How could it help create an interdisciplinary
solution?
·        
How relevant is the theory to the specific
identified issue?
·        
How credible is the source?
Leadership Strategies That Could Lead to an
Interdisciplinary Solution
This section is similar
to the previous one, except you will be looking to the literature to help you
describe one or more leadership strategy that would help you develop an
interdisciplinary solution to the identified issue. Also, you should briefly
note the relevance and credibility of the sources that you cite.
Another way to think
through this section is:
·        
What is the leadership strategy?
·        
How could it help create an interdisciplinary
solution?
·        
How relevant is the strategy to the specific
identified issue?
·        
How credible is the source?
Collaboration Approaches for Interdisciplinary Teams
Again, this section will be similar to the previous once,
except that the focus will be on collaboration approaches. Depending on whether
or not your interviewee’s organization uses interdisciplinary teams frequently,
your focus in this section may be on how to establish interdisciplinary teams
and a collaborative foundation or how to improve the collaboration within an
already established teams. You should also briefly note the relevance
and credibility of the sources that you cite.
Another way to think
through this section is:
·        
What is the leadership approach?
·        
How could it help establish or improve
collaboration?
·        
How relevant is the approach to the specific
identified issue?
·        
How credible is the source?