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Assignment:

The purpose of this assignment is to identify and share examples of collaboration in the health care community demonstrating how they are working to solve difficult problems.

DUE: Please see the Instructional Plan for due dates.

• In small groups assigned by your professor, you will select a project currently happening in healthcare that demonstrates collaboration. It can be within an organization (e.g. interprofessional collaboration) or between two or more organizations.
• You will likely have to identify several information sources related to the same project to answer all of the questions below. You can use peer reviewed journal articles but they are not required for this assignment.
• You must identify the organization(s) that are collaborating and the difficult problem they have come together to solve.
• You are required to submit your project via email to your professor for approval a minimum of 2 weeks before your presentation date. Groups with presentations on Week 11 will submit 1 week prior.
• You must submit only one project at a time to the professor for review. In your email you must identify the organization(s) that are collaborating, the problem they are trying to solve and cc your group.
• You will present your collaborative project to the class.
• All students must equally participate in the presentation

Questions to Be Answered During the Presentation:

• What is the problem that the collaborative project is trying to solve?
• What is the collaboration? Describe the project or program.
• How is it an example of collaboration (versus cooperation or co-creation)?
• What is the shared common goal for both organizations?
• Who were the stakeholders in the collaborations and what strengths did each bring to the project?
• Were the right stakeholders involved in this collaboration? Were any missing?
• Share the results of the collaboration. Was it successful? Reflect on the impact of this collaboration on the current health care system- what was the effect of the collaboration? Think about performance management here - did it add/improve quality, effectiveness, efficiency, productivity, or add value to the health care system? If the initiative was conducted in another country- how could it be applied to the Canadian health care system?
• Consider describing the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How (not necessarily in that order) of the project when completing your presentation.