Reference no: EM133793849

Interdisciplinary Collaborative Meeting Assignment

Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to engage in an interdisciplinary team meeting that addresses a public health need within your community.

Preparation
Read Schoon et al. (2019) Chapter 8

Identify an interdisciplinary team [or collaborative meeting] in your community that addresses a public health need in your community (i.e. smoking, alcohol, obesity, wellness, homeless, domestic violence, youth/senior issues, etc.). Please note that this interdisciplinary/collaborative meeting should NOT be a patient-specific (case management, discharge planning, etc.) meeting in a healthcare setting (i.e. hospital, clinic).

Instruction:

Contact collaborative member to request attendance at a meeting
Attend 1 or more meetings of this collaborative.
Obtain a copy of the meeting agenda or take notes at the meeting (point deductions if not submitted).

Interview a collaborative member (ideally the team chair or someone in a leadership position) and/or gather information from the collaborative's website or other resources. Include a statement in your paper if you are unable to interview someone.

Your paper should include the following:

Collaboration Overview: (1) Name of Interdisciplinary team/Collaborative; (2) name of contact person within collaborative; (3) length in existence; (4) mission and goals of collaborative; (5) how does this collaborative promote its mission to the community; and (6) who are the members (partners)? Not individual names but entities they represent (i.e. nurses, police officers, community members, etc.)

Public Health Issues: What are the public health issues addressed by this collaborative? Identify the target population for this collaborative (who is affected by this public health issue with your community).

Collaborative Planning: Do they use evidence-based, credible sources for program planning? What data has been collected by the collaborative to assist in planning activities/interventions? What additional data do they/you feel would be useful? What are the barriers to collecting this data?

Partners: How does this team promote buy-in from partners? Identify the buy-in needed from partners for this interdisciplinary team/collaborative to be successful.
Collaborative Outcomes: Identify past accomplishments of the team.

Reflection:
As a community member, do you feel this collaboration is well received by the community? How do you know this to be true?

Identify a partner that you believe could enhance the work of this collaboration.

Identify additional ways that the mission and goals of this collaboration could be promoted in the community.

Identify the role nursing does/could bring to this collaboration.