This assignment is designed to help you become a reflective practitioner. By reflecting on your own successes and shortcomings in interprofessional collaboration, you will learn to assess your problem-solving skills.

Scenario

You are a nurse at a Vila Health location. You have been asked to engage in reflective practice as part of an on-site initiative to build effective collaboration. Look back on a project or experience where you collaborated interprofessionally 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. Use the lessons learned from your experiences to make recommendations for improving interprofessional collaboration among their team. Your task is to create a short video reflection with suggestions for the Vila Health team that can be shared with leadership as well as Vila Health colleagues at your site. Order

Instructions

Using KalturaLinks to an external site., record a 5–10 minute video reflection on an interprofessional collaboration experience from your personal practice. Propose suggestions on how to improve the collaboration presented in the Vila Health: Collaboration for Change activity. You will also be required to submit an APA-formatted reference list for any sources that you cited in your video or used to inform your presentation.

Be sure that your assignment addresses the following criteria. Please study the rubric carefully so you understand 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 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.

Interprofessional collaboration best practices

Relate an experience that you have had collaborating on a project 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. Also, 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 personal reflection, examine the scenario in the Vila Health simulation and discuss the ways in which 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 scenario.

Additional Requirements

• References: Per the instructions above, cite at least 3 professional or scholarly sources of evidence to support the assertions and proposals you make in your video. Include additional properly cited references as necessary to support your statements.
• APA reference page: Submit a correctly formatted APA reference page that shows all the sources used to develop the content of your video. You may wish to refer to the APA Module for more information on applying APA style.