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Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal
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.
Introduction
The health care 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 and 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.
o 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.
o Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based
interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific objective related to
improving patient or organizational outcomes.
o 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.
o 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.
o Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions;
contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and
spelling.
o 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.
Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template
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:
1. How much time will using a double-loop feedback model add to a project
manager’s workload?
a. 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?
o 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?
o 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?
o 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?
o Are there any costs associated with these?
• What is the overall financial budget request for the plan proposal?
o 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?
Plus references
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 2–4 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.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in
the following course competencies and scoring guide criteria:
 Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial
resources to promote organizational health.
o Explain organizational resources, including a financial budget,
needed for the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources
if nothing is done to make the improvements sought by the plan.
 Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to
achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.
o Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to
improve the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective, including
best practices of interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
 Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice within
an interdisciplinary team.
o Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based
interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving
patient or organizational outcomes.
 Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership
strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific
organizational goals.
o 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.
o Organize content so ideas flow logically with smooth transitions;
contains few errors in grammar/punctuation, word choice, and
spelling.
o Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references, exhibiting
nearly flawless adherence to APA format.