Assessment 3 Instructions: Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

Content

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.

LEADERSHIP

Robert Johnson Wood Foundation. (2014). Preparing nurses for leadership in public policy [Blog post]. Retrieved from https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/articles-and-news/…

This blog post examines ways to prepare nurses to be leaders in public policy advocacy, creation, and defense.

To create your plan proposal for an interdisciplinary team to address the identified issue, you’ll need to outline the objective of the plan, discuss predictions for its success, explain relevant change theory and leadership strategies, describe necessary collaboration, and analyze required organizational resources. Let’s structure your proposal using the provided template:

 

**Title: Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal**

 

**Objective and Predictions:**

– Objective: Clearly state the objective of the interdisciplinary plan, focusing on improving patient or organizational outcomes.

– Predictions: Discuss the expected outcomes of the plan based on evidence and best practices.

– Example: Objective: “To reduce patient readmission rates by 20% within six months of implementing the interdisciplinary care coordination plan.”

– Predictions: “Based on similar interventions reported in the literature, we anticipate a significant decrease in readmission rates, resulting in improved patient satisfaction and reduced healthcare costs.”

 

**Change Theory and Leadership Strategy:**

– Change Theory: Explain the selected change theory that will guide the implementation of the interdisciplinary plan.

– Leadership Strategy: Describe the leadership strategy that will facilitate collaboration and buy-in for the plan.

– Example: Change Theory: “Kotter’s Eight-Step Change Model will be utilized to create a sense of urgency and foster stakeholder engagement throughout the implementation process.”

– Leadership Strategy: “Transformational leadership will be employed to inspire and empower team members, encouraging innovation and commitment to the shared goal of reducing readmissions.”

 

**Interdisciplinary Collaboration:**

– Collaboration Needs: Identify the collaboration required by the interdisciplinary team to achieve the plan’s objective.

– Best Practices: Incorporate best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature to enhance team effectiveness.

– Example: Collaboration Needs: “Close collaboration between nurses, physicians, pharmacists, and social workers is essential to ensure seamless transitions of care and comprehensive support for patients.”

– Best Practices: “Regular interdisciplinary team meetings, shared decision-making processes, and clear communication channels will promote collaboration and optimize patient outcomes.”

 

**Organizational Resources and Impacts:**

– Resources Needed: Specify the organizational resources required for the plan to succeed, including a financial budget.

– Impacts of Inaction: Discuss the potential impacts on resources if the improvements described in the plan are not made.

– Example: Resources Needed: “The plan requires dedicated staff time for care coordination, access to electronic health record systems for information sharing, and funding for patient education materials.”

– Impacts of Inaction: “Failure to implement the plan may result in continued high readmission rates, increased healthcare costs, and diminished patient satisfaction, leading to reputational damage for the organization.”

 

**Conclusion:**

– Summarize the key components of the interdisciplinary plan proposal, emphasizing its potential to drive meaningful improvements in patient outcomes and organizational performance.

– Reinforce the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration and effective leadership in achieving the shared objective.

 

**References:**

– List all scholarly or professional evidence cited in the proposal.

– Ensure proper APA formatting for in-text citations and reference entries.

 

By following this structure, you can effectively communicate your interdisciplinary plan proposal, providing a clear roadmap for addressing the identified issue and driving positive change within the healthcare organization.

Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

Write a brief introduction (2 to 3 sentences) to your proposal that outlines the issue you are attempting to solve, the part of the organization in which the plan would be carried out, and the desired outcome. This will set the stage for the sections below.

Objective

Describe what your plan will do and what you hope it will accomplish in one or two succinct sentences. Also, comment on how the objective, if achieved, will improve organizational or patient outcomes. For example:

Test a double-loop feedback model for evaluating new product risk with a small group of project managers with the goal of reducing the number of new products that fail to launch. This objective is aligned to the broader organizational goal of becoming more efficient taking products to market and, if successful, should improve outcomes by reducing waste.

Questions and Predictions

For this section ask yourself 3 to 5 questions about your objective and your overall plan. Make a prediction for each question by answering the question you posed. This helps you to define the important aspects of your plan as well as limit the scope and check its ability to be implemented.

For example:

How much time will using a double-loop feedback model add to a project manager’s workload?

At first, it will likely increase their workloads by 5 to 10 percent. However, as the process is refined and project managers become more familiar and efficient, that percentage will decrease.

Change Theories and Leadership Strategies

For this section, you may wish to draw upon the research you did regarding change theories and leadership for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment. The focus of this section is how those best practices will create buy-in for the project from an interdisciplinary team, improve their collaboration, and/or foster the team’s ability to implement the plan. Be sure that you are including at least one change theory and at least one leadership strategy in your explanation. Always remember to cite your sources; direct quotes require quotation marks and a page or paragraph number to be included in the citation.

Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following:

What is the theory or strategy?
How will it likely help an interdisciplinary team to collaborate, implement, and/or buy in to the project plan?

Make sure to frame this explanation within the organizational context of the proposed plan, that is, your interviewee’s organization.

Team Collaboration Strategy

In this section, begin by further defining the responsibilities and actions that represent the implementation of the plan. One strategy to defining this is to take a “who, what, where, and when” approach for each team member.

For example:

Project Manager A will apply the double-loop feedback model on one new product project for a single quarter.
Project Manager B will apply the double-loop feedback model on all new product projects for a quarter.

Vice President A will review the workloads of project managers using the double-loop feedback model every Thursday for one quarter.

After you have roughly outlined the roles and responsibilities of team members, you will explain one or more collaborative approaches that will enable the team to work efficiently to achieve the plan’s objective. As with the change theories and leadership strategies, you may draw on the research you conducted for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment. However, you are being asked to give a more in-depth explanation of the collaboration approaches and look at how they will help the theoretical interdisciplinary team in your plan proposal.

Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following:

What is the collaboration approach?
What types of collaboration and teamwork will best help the interdisciplinary team be successful?
How is the collaboration approach relevant to the team’s needs and will it help drive success?

Make sure to frame this explanation in terms of the subject of the plan proposal; that is, your interviewee’s organization.

Required Organizational Resources

For this section, you will be making rough estimates of the resources needed for your plan proposal to be successful. This section does not have to be exact but the estimates should be realistic for the chosen organization.

Items you should include or address in this section:

What are the staffing needs for your plan proposal?
What equipment or supplies are needed for your plan proposal?

Does the organization already have these?

If so, what is the cost associated with using these resources?
If not, what is the cost of acquiring these resources?

What access (to patients, departments, and so forth) is needed?

Are there any costs associated with these?

What is the overall financial budget request for the plan proposal?

Staff time, resource use, resource acquisition, and access charged?

Remember to include a specific dollar amount in your request.

After you have detailed your budget, make sure that you explain any impacts on organizational resources that could happen if your plan is not undertaken and successful. In other words, if the issue you are try to solve through your plan proposal persists or gets worse, what will be the potential costs to the organization?

 

 

References

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