Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

 Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

Collaborative paradigms in healthcare remain one of the key quality and safeguard measures in conventional care. These care approaches draw multiple healthcare professionals from different cadres and tailor their functionalities toward enhancing clinical outcomes and patient experiences. Their significance in producing better outcomes for the patients and the caregivers underpins their utility in the care continuum and transition processes. This paper outlines a proposal for an interdisciplinary approach to diabetes care for patients under the care continuum transitioning to home-based care at the Eastern Hospital.

Objectives

This plan seeks to test interdisciplinary team effectiveness in coordinating chronic care for diabetics. The plan will use the Katzenbach and Smith theoretical model to determine the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary team approach in care provision for diabetes patients transitioning to home-based care. This plan will focus on the healthcare professionals’ commitment to engaging their patients, their skill sets in chronic care, and their accountability to their purpose, as outlined by the Katzenbach and Smith model (Zajac et al., 2021). The plan seeks to expand providers’ skill sets in patient handling and technology use, foster better communication between healthcare providers, and enhance their knowledge of collaborative strategies.

Questions and Predictions

Postulates from the Katzenbach and Smith model will improve team collaboration and foster teamwork among healthcare team members. Team members, in this regard, are expected to have the prerequisite skills and knowledge of chronic care and technology use. They are also expected to demonstrate effective communication among themselves and with their patients. The overall impact of this approach will be seen in better clinical outcomes indicated by lower hospital readmission and revisitation rates and reduced healthcare costs.

Change Theory

Lewin’s change model is an example of a change theory that may help organizational members buy into the plan. Harrison et al. (2021) demonstrate the utility of the Lewin change management model in the change management process in healthcare. This model emphasizes understanding the change process rather than guiding activities undertaken during the actual change. It enables healthcare leaders to contemplate the change process and its progression. This will enable them to educate organizational members on the provisions of the change and thus enable them to understand the change process better and ensure that they buy into the plan. This model can be used to integrate interdisciplinary approaches in chronic care. Understanding how collaborative paradigms and interdisciplinary approaches work in chronic care, as a core emphasis in this theoretical model, may inform its success and effectiveness.

Leadership Strategies

Sound leadership may also be valuable in this regard. The unfreezing step in Lewin’s theory implores organizational elements to understand the change process and the organizational resources necessary for implementing the change. Leadership strategies that may be valuable in this regard include effective and open communication with organizational members, the creation of a road map for the change process,  inspiring the change in organizational members, and defining organizational goals and objectives for the change. Communicating openly to members and inspiring them to board the change process may create buy-in to the plan being communicated to them. The effectiveness of this leadership approach will be ensured by the leaders’ transparency, ability to communicate effectively, and ability to create a road map for change.

Team Collaboration Strategy

The role diversity often apparent in interdisciplinary healthcare teams necessitates collaborations during care operationalization. Teamwork is a valuable strategy that can help healthcare team members to work together and align their functionalities toward optimizing clinical outcomes (Schot et al., 2019). Teamwork provides the groundwork for sharing knowledge and skills among team members. This may enhance the teams’ understanding of their mandate in chronic care and equip them with the prerequisite skills in patient communication and technology use that are vital in chronic care. Role interdependence and cooperation that highlight teamwork are also essential in bolstering team members’ accountability and responsibility to their patients. Best practices in collaborative approaches during chronic care include transparency and effective communication to enhance teams’ cohesiveness, mutual respect, and cooperation to improve interpersonal relationships, information sharing, and responsibility. These practices highlighted my first engagement with an interdisciplinary team involved in chronic care. All team members demonstrated respect towards each other, communicated openly, and frequently shared information on the patients. Team members were also diligent in their roles and worked cooperatively towards enhancing patient outcomes. These best practices can also be used in the interdisciplinary team outlined in the plan to enhance the team’s effectiveness in chronic care.

Required Organizational Resources

The plan will draw significant financial and human resource considerations. Due to the expertise and skills required to execute this plan, the hospital will have to enhance providers’ functional skills and knowledge of these collaborative paradigms. This can be in the form of training or by recruiting additional staff with expertise in chronic care. Based on the existing staff base and resources, the plan will require a budgetary allocation of up to 600,000 dollars. The majority of these funds will be used to recruit staff, procure resources they may require, and train staff to enhance their functional capacities. Despite its high costs, the plan remains beneficial. Its significance in improving the quality of care provided during the care continuum and eliminating extra costs accustomed to avoidable readmission due to therapeutic errors makes it a worthy investment. If these adjustments are not made, the hospital may risk losing funds to quality compromises resulting from fragmented care and the consequential financial implications of hospital readmission.

Conclusion

The interdisciplinary approach in chronic care remains a valuable strategy for care provision among people with diabetes transitioning to home-based care. Its significance underpins the need for healthcare systems to integrate these approaches into their conventional care systems. Change management processes utilizing change theories such as Lewin’s model provide a framework for implementing these changes. Effective leadership is also important as it steers the organization toward implementing and sustaining these changes. For this approach to succeed, team members within these teams should demonstrate effective collaboration and possess the required resources for the care process.

References

Harrison, R., Fischer, S., Walpola, R. L., Chauhan, A., Babalola, T., Mears, S., & Le-Dao, H. (2021). Where do models for Change Management, improvement and implementation meet? A systematic review of the applications of Change Management Models in healthcare. Journal of Healthcare Leadership, Volume 13, 85–108. https://doi.org/10.2147/jhl.s289176

Schot, E., Tummers, L., & Noordegraaf, M. (2019). Working on working together. A systematic review of how healthcare professionals contribute to Interprofessional collaboration. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 34(3), 332–342. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2019.1636007

Zajac, S., Woods, A., Tannenbaum, S., Salas, E., & Holladay, C. L. (2021). Overcoming challenges to teamwork in Healthcare: A Team Effectiveness Framework and evidence-based guidance. Frontiers in communication, 6. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.606445

ORDER A PLAGIARISM-FREE PAPER HERE

We’ll write everything from scratch

For this assessment, you will create a 2-4 page plan proposal for an interprofessional team to collaborate and work toward driving improvements in the organizational issue you identified in the second assessment.

The healthcare industry is always striving to improve patient outcomes and attain organizational goals. Nurses can play a critical role in achieving these goals; one way to encourage nurse participation in larger organizational efforts is to create a shared vision and team goals (Mulvale et al., 2016). Participation in interdisciplinary teams can also offer nurses opportunities to share their expertise and leadership skills, fostering a sense of ownership and collegiality.

Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

You are encouraged to complete the Budgeting for Nurses activity before you develop the plan proposal. The activity consists of seven questions that will allow you the opportunity to check your knowledge of budgeting basics as well as the value of financial resource management. The information gained from completing this formative will promote success with the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal. Completing this activity also demonstrates your engagement in the course, requires just a few minutes of your time, and is not graded.

Demonstration of Proficiency
Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.
Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to be a success and the impacts on those resources if nothing is done, related to the improvements sought by the plan.
Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific objective related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals.
Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that are most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
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.
Reference
Mulvale, G., Embrett, M., & Shaghayegh, D. R. (2016). ‘Gearing up’ to improve interprofessional collaboration in primary care: A systematic review and conceptual framework. BMC Family Practice, 17.

Professional Context
This assessment will allow you to describe a plan proposal that includes an analysis of best practices of interprofessional collaboration, change theory, leadership strategies, and organizational resources with a financial budget that can be used to solve the problem identified through the interview you conducted in the prior assessment.

Scenario
Having reviewed the information gleaned from your professional interview and identified the issue, you will determine and present an objective for an interdisciplinary intervention to address the issue.

Note: You will not be expected to implement the plan during this course. However, the plan should be evidence-based and realistic within the context of the issue and your interviewee’s organization.

Instructions
For this assessment, use the context of the organization where you conducted your interview to develop a viable plan for an interdisciplinary team to address the issue you identified. Define a specific patient or organizational outcome or objective based on the information gathered in your interview.

The goal of this assessment is to clearly lay out the improvement objective for your planned interdisciplinary intervention of the issue you identified. Additionally, be sure to further build on the leadership, change, and collaboration research you completed in the previous assessment. Look for specific, real-world ways in which those strategies and best practices could be applied to encourage buy-in for the plan or facilitate the implementation of the plan for the best possible outcome.

Using the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template [DOCX] will help you stay organized and concise. As you complete each section of the template, make sure you apply APA format to in-text citations for the evidence and best practices that inform your plan, as well as the reference list at the end.

Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses 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.

Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient or organizational outcomes.
Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy, supported by relevant evidence, that is most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget, needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if the improvements described in the plan are not made.
Communicate the interdisciplinary plan, with writing that is clear, logically organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using current APA style.
Additional Requirements
Length of submission: Use the provided template. Remember that part of this assessment is to make the plan easy to understand and use, so it is critical that you are clear and concise. Most submissions will be 2 to 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.
Note: Faculty may use the Writing Feedback Tool when grading this assessment. The Writing Feedback Tool is designed to provide you with guidance and resources to develop your writing based on five core skills. You will find writing feedback in the Scoring Guide for the assessment, once your work has been evaluated.

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.