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Homework: Nursing Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification Report

Create a 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 homework, 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 Homework, will inform the research that you will conduct to propose a plan for interdisciplinary collaboration in Homework.

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.

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Institute for Healthcare Improvement. This homework is the first of three related homeworks in which you will gather interview information (Homework); design a proposal for interdisciplinary problem-solving, (Homework); and report on how an interdisciplinary improvement plan could be implemented in a place of practice (Homework). 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 homework, 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 improvemen. For this homework, 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 (Homework) by researching potential change theories, leadership strategies, and collaboration approaches that could be relevant to issue you have identified. Be certain to review the scoring guide to confirm specific required elements of this homework. Note that there are differences between basic, proficient and distinguished scores.

Additionally, be sure to address the following:

A. Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a health care organization.

B. Identify an issue from an interview for which an evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be appropriate.

C. Describe potential change theories and leadership strategies that could inform an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational issue.

D. Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that could facilitate establishing or improving an interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.