Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video
Hello and welcome to today’s presentation. We will begin by reflecting on a previous experience with interdisciplinary collaboration. We will then identify the impact of poor communication on management. We will then identify leadership strategies that promote interdisciplinary collaboration. Finally, we will identify techniques that promote interdisciplinary collaboration.
Previous Experience in Interdisciplinary Collaboration
I participated in an interdisciplinary collaborative effort to lower the incidence of complications among patients with diabetes mellitus (DM). The team comprised dieticians, physicians, nurses, laboratory technicians, and pharmacists. The initial success of this intervention can be attributed to various factors. Firstly, the interdisciplinary team received periodic training on their unique roles in the management of DM. Secondly, team leaders conducted regular performance evaluations and provided timely feedback. This feedback enabled team members to make necessary adjustments and remain focused on the project’s goal. Thirdly, the healthcare facility’s administration remunerated the best-performing team. By so doing, team members were motivated to collaborate effectively to accomplish the project’s goal. All members of the interdisciplinary team played a key role in patient education. The scope of this education entailed the relevance of medication adherence and lifestyle modification. Physicians, nurses, and laboratory technicians played a key role in patient screening. Dieticians provided pertinent information regarding dietary modification, whereas pharmacists provided pertinent information regarding medication therapy and reiterated the relevance of medication adherence.
Various factors impeded the project’s success. Team leaders discontinued training programs and performance evaluations. This impacted teamwork by creating laxity and diminishing accountability. The team’s motivation declined, as evidenced by reduced patient follow-up activities, a reduction in screening exercises, and patient education activities. Furthermore, the healthcare facility’s administration withdrew remuneration plans for the best-performing teams. Reflective practice will enable nurses to learn from their past experiences. By so doing, they will adopt evidence-based best practices for the quality of healthcare services.
Impact of Poor Collaboration on Management
At this point, I would like to discuss the impact of poor collaboration on human and financial management. Writing in 2021, Belrhiti, Van Belle, and Criel reported that poor collaboration impedes open communication, creates confusion, increases the risk of conflict, and promotes time-wasting. Open communication allows the team to work harmoniously by establishing clear and concise goals and milestones. A lack of open communication due to poor collaboration will create confusion and increase the likelihood of conflict. By so doing, human and financial management is impeded. Writing in 2019, Lapierre, Lefebvre, and Gauvin-Lepage reported that conflict could also arise from unnecessary competition emanating from poor collaboration. Conflict causes poor engagement and impedes human and financial management. In 2019, Lapierre, Lefebvre, and Gauvin-Lepage reported that time-wasting caused by poor collaboration implies that organizational goals are not accomplished as planned. Failure to fulfill goals reflects ineffective human and financial management.
Leadership Strategies to Achieve Goals
I would like to discuss the strategies that enable leaders to accomplish goals via interdisciplinary collaboration. Writing in 2019, Folkman, Tveit, and Sverdrup reported that leaders should embrace appreciative inquiry and self-governance to enable an interdisciplinary team to fulfill its goals. In 2020, Armstrong, Holmes, and Henning reported that appreciative inquiry focuses on the specialties and strengths of team members. To accomplish this, leaders should embrace dialogue and open communication. Appreciative inquiry acknowledges the strengths of each member and allows them to remain focused on achieving organizational vision and mission. Writing in 2019, Folkman, Tveit, and Sverdrup reported that self-governance acknowledges that interdisciplinary team members are autonomous individuals. It advocates for transparency and information sharing. By so doing, members of the interdisciplinary team will collaborate effectively to accomplish the group’s goals and objectives.
Interdisciplinary Collaboration Strategies
Allow me to discuss the strategies of interdisciplinary collaboration. Four strategies can be used to promote interdisciplinary collaboration to allow teams to fulfill their goals. Firstly, Ngangue, Forgues, and Nguyen, writing in 2020, reported that open communication allows team members to remain focused and work in harmony toward a common goal. As earlier stated, open communication eliminates confusion and conflict via clear role definition and formulation of concise goals. Secondly, Buljac-Samardzic, Doekhie, and Van Wijngaarden, writing in 2020, reported that remuneration would enable the team to stay motivated towards a common goal. Both monetary and non-monetary remuneration boosts the team’s morale in collaborating to accomplish shared goals. Thirdly, Buljac-Samardzic, Doekhie, and Van Wijngaarden, writing in 2020, reported that social interactions such as team-building events promote interdisciplinary collaboration. Social interactions allow team members to create a rapport among themselves. By so doing, the likelihood of information sharing is increased, and the team remains focused on the group’s goals. Fourthly, Ngangue, Forgues, and Nguyen, writing in 2020, reported that training equips team members with the knowledge and skills to execute their roles effectively to achieve interdisciplinary collaboration.
In conclusion, poor collaboration impacts human and financial management by impeding open communication, creating confusion, increasing the risk of conflict, and promoting time-wasting. Leaders should embrace appreciative inquiry and self-governance to enable interdisciplinary teams to accomplish their goals. Team members and leaders should embrace open communication, reward systems, training, and team building to achieve effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
References
Armstrong, A. J., Holmes, C. M., & Henning, D. (2020). A changing world, again. How Appreciative Inquiry can guide our growth. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2(1), 100038. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2020.100038
Belrhiti, Z., Van Belle, S., & Criel, B. (2021). How medical dominance and interprofessional conflicts undermine patient-centered care in hospitals: Historical analysis and multiple embedded case study in Morocco. BMJ Global Health, 6(7). https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006140
Buljac-Samardzic, M., Doekhie, K. D., & Van Wijngaarden, J. D. H. (2020). Interventions to improve team effectiveness within health care: A systematic review of the past decade. Human Resources for Health, 18(1), 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960-019-0411-3
Folkman, A. K., Tveit, B., & Sverdrup, S. (2019). Leadership in Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 12, 97–107. https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S189199
Lapierre, A., Lefebvre, H., & Gauvin-Lepage, J. (2019). Factors Affecting Interprofessional Teamwork in Emergency Department Care of Polytrauma Patients: Results of an Exploratory Study. Journal of Trauma Nursing, 26(6), 312–322. https://doi.org/10.1097/JTN.0000000000000469
Ngangue, P. A., Forgues, C., Nguyen, T., Sasseville, M., Gallagher, F., Loignon, C., Stewart, M., Belle Brown, J., Chouinard, M. C., & Fortin, M. (2020). Patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals’ experience with an interdisciplinary intervention for people with multimorbidity in primary care: A qualitative study. Health Expectations, 23(2), 318–327. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13035
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Question 
For this assessment, you will create a 5-10 minute video reflection on an experience in which you collaborated interprofessional, as well as a brief discussion of an interprofessional collaboration scenario and how it could have been better approached.
Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video
Interprofessional collaboration is a critical aspect of a nurse’s work. Through interprofessional collaboration, practitioners and patients share information and consider each other’s perspectives to better understand and address the many factors that contribute to health and well-being (Sullivan et al., 2015). Essentially, by collaborating, healthcare practitioners and patients can have better health outcomes. Nurses, who are often at the frontlines of interacting with various groups and records, are full partners in this approach to health care.
Reflection is a key part of building interprofessional competence, as it allows you to look critically at experiences and actions through specific lenses. From the standpoint of interprofessional collaboration, reflection can help you consider potential reasons for and causes of people’s actions and behaviors (Saunders et al., 2016). It also can provide opportunities to examine the roles team members adopted in a given situation as well as how the team could have worked more effectively.
As you begin to prepare this assessment you are encouraged to complete the What is Reflective Practice? activity. The activity consists of five questions that will allow you the opportunity to practice self-reflection. The information gained from completing this formative will help with your success on the Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video assessment. Completing formatives is also a way to demonstrate course engagement
Note: The Example Kaltura Reflection demonstrates how to cite sources appropriately in an oral presentation/video. The Example Kaltura Reflection video is not a reflection on the Vila Health activity. Your reflection assessment will focus on both your professional experience and the Vila Health activity as described in the scenario.
References
Saunders, R., Singer, R., Dugmore, H., Seaman, K., & Lake, F. (2016). Nursing students’ reflections on an interprofessional placement in ambulatory care. Reflective Practice, 17(4), 393–402.
Sullivan, M., Kiovsky, R., Mason, D., Hill, C., Duke, C. (2015). Interprofessional collaboration and education. American Journal of Nursing, 115(3), 47–54.
Demonstration of Proficiency
Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.
Identify how poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources supported by evidence from the literature.
Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and system outcomes.
Reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes.
Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team to achieve its goals and work more effectively together.
Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.
Identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature, which would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals.
Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes.
Communicate via video with clear sound and light.
The full reference list is from relevant and evidence-based (published within 5 years) sources, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.
Professional Context
This assessment will help you to become a reflective practitioner. By considering your successes and shortcomings in interprofessional collaboration, you will increase awareness of your problem-solving abilities. You will create a video of your reflections, including a discussion of best practices of interprofessional collaboration and leadership strategies, cited in the literature.
Scenario
As part of an initiative to build effective collaboration at your Vila Health site, where you are a nurse, you have been asked to reflect on a project or experience in which you collaborated with interprofessionals and examine what happened during the collaboration, identifying positive aspects and areas for improvement.
You have also been asked to review a series of events that took place at another Vila Health location and research interprofessional collaboration best practices and use the lessons learned from your experiences to make recommendations for improving interprofessional collaboration among their team. Your task is to create a 5–10 minute video reflection with suggestions for the Vila Health team that can be shared with leadership as well as Vila Health colleagues at your site. Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact DisabilityServices@Capella.edu to request accommodations. If, for some reason, you are unable to record a video, please contact your faculty member as soon as possible to explore options for completing the assessment.
Instructions
Using Kaltura, record a 5–10 minute video reflection on an interprofessional collaboration experience from your practice, proposing suggestions on how to improve the collaboration presented in the Vila Health: Collaboration for Change activity.
Be sure that your assessment addresses the following criteria. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you will know what is needed for a distinguished score:
Reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes.
Identify how poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources, citing supporting evidence from the literature.
Identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals, citing at least one author from the literature.
Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team achieve its goals and work together, citing the work of at least one author.
Communicate professionally, are easily audible, and use proper grammar. Format reference list in current APA style.
You will need to relate an experience that you have had collaborating on a project. This could be at your current or former place of practice or another relevant project that will enable you to address the requirements. In addition to describing your experience, you should explain aspects of the collaboration that helped the team make progress toward relevant goals or outcomes, as well as aspects of the collaboration that could have been improved.
A simplified gap-analysis approach may be useful:
What happened?
What went well?
What did not go well?
What should have happened?
After your reflection, examine the scenario in the Vila Health activity and discuss how the interdisciplinary team did not collaborate effectively and the negative implications for the human and financial resources of the interdisciplinary team and the organization as a whole.
Building on this investigation, identify at least one leadership best practice or strategy that you believe would improve the team’s ability to achieve its goals. Be sure to identify the strategy and its source or author and provide a brief rationale for your choice of strategy.
Additionally, identify at least one interdisciplinary collaboration best practice or strategy to help the team achieve its goals and work more effectively together. Again, identify the strategy, its source, and reasons why you think it will be effective.
You are encouraged to integrate lessons learned from your self-reflection to support and enrich your discussion of the Vila Health activity.
You are required to submit an APA-formatted reference list for any sources that you cited specifically in your video or used to inform your presentation. The Example Kaltura Reflection will show you how to cite scholarly sources in the context of an oral presentation.