Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

As care approaches bend toward patient-centeredness and quality care provision, an interdisciplinary approach to care remains a benchmark of quality care provision. Poor coordination between the team members is sometimes an issue and has been implicated in reduced effectiveness and poor outcomes. This interdisciplinary plan aims to build teamwork in healthcare teams in Southwest Hospital’s diabetic clinic as a strategy to resolve poor coordination of care and improve outcomes. The plan seeks to create cohesive teams unified by purpose and can work collaboratively to enhance patient experiences and optimize clinical outcomes.

Objective

The objective is to test the Hackman model of team effectiveness on an interdisciplinary healthcare team. Hackman’s model of fostering team effectiveness postulates that the likelihood of the team working cohesively and effectively depends on five conditions. These conditions are role definition, the presence of direction or purpose, a framework or structure within which the team’s processes or activities are carried out, access to resources, and a coach or a mentor within the team (Cavanaugh et al., 2021). Enabling these conditions within the interdisciplinary team will foster teamwork and enhance their effectiveness in coordinating care for their patients.

Predictions

Interdisciplinary teams bring together healthcare professionals from different cadres within the healthcare system. It is expected that each member of the team understands their role in care provision. They are expected to be responsible and accountable for the team to be effective. The team’s purpose is to provide quality care that optimizes clinical outcomes. This purpose will be communicated to the team. The team members will be expected to work diligently towards optimizing care outcomes. The plan is expected to be generally acceptable to the team members as it doesn’t have many considerations.

Change Theory

Kotter’s change management theory is an example of a change theory that can help interdisciplinary team members buy into the plan. This change theory casts the responsibility of managing change on the organizational leader. This theory defines an 8-step process for implementing changes within an organization. Kotter’s change theory is based on the fact that people tend to resist change. The theory, therefore, outlines steps of tailoring the team members’ psychology toward accepting the change process (Carman et al., 2019). Interdisciplinary team leaders targeted by this plan will employ Kotter’s framework for change management to help the members build an effective healthcare team.

Leadership Strategies

Working with a change model and communicating the provisions of the change to other team members are some of the strategies a leader can employ to promote buy-in for an organizational change process. The team leader will employ these strategies to promote buy-in among the team members. According to Grinerud et al. (2021), leaders communicate and inspire change among organizational members. They bear the responsibility of ensuring that each member is aboard and conforms to the provision of the change process.

Team Collaboration Strategy

Teamwork is an important feature in the collaborative paradigm of healthcare provision. Its significance in synergizing members’ operations and sharing responsibilities underpins its necessity in interdisciplinary teams. Teamwork is centered on the values of cooperation, respect, role interdependence, and collaboration (Schot et al., 2019). To establish effective interdisciplinary teams, team members must work towards teaming up and embracing these values. Fostering teamwork is a joint responsibility of all team members and the team leaders. In this regard, the leader will coordinate the team’s activities and ensure that each member conforms to the change. The leader will also ensure that each professional in the team executes their roles diligently and timely. Each team member is expected to execute their role diligently. They will also be expected to abide by the provisions of the central framework of the team operationalization as set out by the team leaders. These efforts will ensure team cohesion and improve coordination of care processes.

Required Organizational Resources

The effectiveness of an interdisciplinary team is also dependent on the availability of the required resources. Additional staff with expertise in diabetes handling and experience in coordinating healthcare teams will be necessary to address the staffing needs. The available staff will also undergo in-session training on team coordination and collaborative models in healthcare. Treatment and diagnostic equipment may also be acquired to increase the team’s capacity and capabilities for handling clinical complexities. Such equipment includes glucose monitoring devices and essential nursing equipment for patient handling. No further costs are required to purchase equipment since the hospital already budgets them. The cost of training staff and adding more staff is approximately 600,000 dollars. Five hundred thousand dollars will go into recruiting and remunerating the added staff, and 100,000 dollars will be used in the educational programs.

Despite the high-cost considerations of the plan, its benefits outweigh its risks. Poor coordination in diabetic care has been implicated in poor clinical outcomes, hospital revisitation, and longer hospital stay days. If unresolved, the hospital will continue bleeding money accustomed to re-treatment and revisitation. The hospital will also risk losing its clients due to the poor quality of care offered, which will compound its financial problems.

Fostering teamwork among interdisciplinary healthcare teams is a step toward improving patient outcomes. It also offers a solution to issues regarding poor coordination that sometimes affect healthcare teams. Teamwork is integral to collaborative paradigms and contributes to the effectiveness of team operations. Organizations should, therefore, strive to build more cohesive teams to improve their operationalization.

References

Carman, A., Vanderpool, R., Stradtman, L., & Edmiston, E. (2019). A Change-Management Approach to Closing Care Gaps in a Federally Qualified Health Center: A Rural Kentucky Case Study. Preventing Chronic Disease, 16. https://doi.org/10.5888/pcd16.180589

Cavanaugh, K., Logan, J., Zajac, S., & Holladay, C. (2021). Core conditions of team effectiveness: Development of a survey measuring Hackman’s framework. Journal Of Interprofessional Care, 35(6), 914-919. https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2020.1871327

Grinerud, K., Aarseth, W., & Robertsen, R. (2021). Leadership strategies, management decisions, and safety culture in road transport organizations. Research In Transportation Business &Amp; Management, 41, 100670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2021.100670

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

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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.

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 system 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 is 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; contain 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 the 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 lists follow the current APA style.