• Week 2: The Role of Leadership
  • Research and summarize senior management’s role in successful quality improvement programs. Be sure to use real, researched examples to demonstrate your points. The Baldrige Award site list of recipients could be a good resource for examples.
  • In general, identify senior management’s specific role in these large-scale strategic quality programs? Cheerleader? Role model? Decision maker? Resource provider? What else?
  • Why must firms adopt the identified roles? What is the risk of not using the roles?
  • Indicate how senior and middle management should derive the metrics to use to monitor and communicate performance?

Please see attached document.

Case Study: https://cdn-media.waldenu.edu/2dett4d/Walden/NURS/6630/DT/week_08/index.html

 

You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this client. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the client’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.

At each decision point, you should evaluate all options before selecting your decision and moving throughout the exercise. Before you make your decision, make sure that you have researched each option and that you evaluate the decision that you will select. Be sure to research each option using the primary literature.

Introduction to the case (1 page)

• Briefly explain and summarize the case for this Assignment. Be sure to include the specific patient factors that may impact your decision making when prescribing medication for this patient.

Decision #1 (1 page)

• Which decision did you select?
• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #2 (1 page)

• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #3 (1 page)

• Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.
• What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).
• Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Conclusion (1 page)

• Summarize your recommendations on the treatment options you selected for this patient. Be sure to justify your recommendations and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

References to include:

 

• Stahl, S. M. (2021). Stahl’s essential psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific basis and practical applications (5th Ed.) Cambridge University Press.
  • Chapter 13, “Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Addiction” (pp. 538-578)

 

• Salmon, J. M., & Forester, B. (2012). Substance abuse and co-occurring psychiatric disorders in older adults: A clinical case and review of the relevant literature. Journal of Dual DiagnosisLinks to an external site., 8(1), 74–84. https://doi.org/10.1080/15504263.2012.648439

Introduction:- 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, health care 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 systems 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 own 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 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 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 
[email protected] 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 personal 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 in a professional manner, is easily audible, and uses 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 personal reflection, examine the scenario in the Vila Health activity 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 their 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.

Refer to the Campus tutorial 

Using Kaltura [PDF]
 as needed to record and upload your reflection.

· Additional requirements:-
References: Cite at least 3 professional or scholarly sources of evidence to support the assertions 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 you used to create and deliver your video.

· You may wish to refer to the Campus 

APA Module
 for more information on applying APA style.

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.

Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video Scoring Guide

CRITERIA	NON-PERFORMANCE	BASIC	PROFICIENT	DISTINGUISHED
Reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes.	Does not describe an interdisciplinary collaboration experience.	Describes an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, but the reflection on the success or failure to achieve desired outcomes is missing or unclear.	Reflects on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes.	Reflects on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes. Includes ways in which reflective nursing practice can help build a better understanding of past experiences to improve future practice decisions.
Identify ways poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources, supported by evidence from the literature.	Does not Identify ways poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources.	Identifies poor collaboration, but does not address how it can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources or does not provide supporting evidence from the literature.	Identifies how poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources supported by evidence from the literature.	Identifies how poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources supported by evidence from the literature. Multiple authors from the literature are discussed.
Identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals.	Does not identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals.	Identifies leadership strategies, but it is unclear how they would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals, or does not provide supporting evidence from the literature.	Identifies best-practice leadership strategies from the literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals.	Identifies best-practice leadership strategies from the literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals. Multiple authors from the literature are discussed.
Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team to achieve its goals and work together more effectively.	Does not identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team to achieve its goals and work together more effectively.	Identifies interdisciplinary collaboration strategies, but it is unclear how they would help a team to achieve its goals and work together more effectively together.	Identifies best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team to achieve its goals and work together more effectively.	Identifies best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team to achieve its goals and work together more effectively. Multiple authors from the literature are discussed.
Communicate via video with clear sound and light.	Does not communicate professionally in a well-organized presentation.	Does not communicate via video or video is difficult to hear and see.	Communicates via video with clear sound and light.	Communicates via video with clear sound and light. Content delivery is focused, smooth, and well-rehearsed.
The full reference list is from relevant and evidence-based (published within 5 years) sources, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.	Does not provide a reference list of relevant and/or evidence-based sources (published within 5 years).	A majority of reference list sources are relevant and/or evidence-based (published within 5 years) submitted with few APA errors.	The full reference list is from relevant and evidence-based (published within 5 years) sources, exhibiting nearly flawless adherence to APA format.	The full reference list is from relevant and evidence-based (published within 5 years) sources, exhibiting flawless adherence to APA format.