Interview Report
For this assessment, you will create a 2-3 page report on an interview you have
conducted with a health care professional. You will identify an issue from the interview
that could be improved with an interdisciplinary approach, and review best practices and
evidence to address the issue.
Introduction
As a baccalaureate-prepared nurse, your participation and leadership in interdisciplinary
teams will be vital to the health outcomes for your patients and organization. One way to
approach designing an improvement project is to use the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA)
cycle. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement describes it thus:
The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycle is shorthand for testing a
change in the real work setting—by planning it, trying it, observing the
results, and acting on what is learned. This is the scientific method
adapted for action-oriented learning…Essentially, the PDSA cycle
helps you test out change ideas on a smaller scale before evaluating
the results and making adjustments before potentially launching into a
somewhat larger scale project (n.d.).
You might also recognize that the PDSA cycle resembles the nursing process. The
benefit of gaining experience with this model of project design is that it provides nurses
with an opportunity to ideate and lead improvements. For this assessment, you will not
be implementing all of the PDSA cycle. Instead, you are being asked to interview a
health care professional of your choice to determine what kind of interdisciplinary
problem he or she is experiencing or has experienced in the workplace. This interview,
in Assessment 2, will inform the research that you will conduct to propose a plan for
interdisciplinary collaboration in Assessment 3.
It would be an excellent choice to complete the PDSA Cycle activity prior to developing
the report. The activity consists of four questions that create the opportunity to check
your understanding of best practices related to each stage of the PDSA cycle. The
information gained from completing this formative will promote your success with the
Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification report. This will take just a few
minutes of your time and is not graded.
Reference
Institute for Healthcare Improvement. (n.d.). How to improve.
http://www.ihi.org/resources/Pages/HowtoImprove/default.aspx
Demonstration of Proficiency（Competencies Measured）
● Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to
achieve desired patient and systems outcomes.,
○ Summarize an interview focused on past or current issues at a
health care organization.,
○ Describe collaboration approaches from the literature that
could be relevant in establishing or improving an
interdisciplinary team to address an organizational issue.,
● Competency 3: Describe ways to incorporate evidence-based practice
within an interdisciplinary team.,
○ Identify an issue from an interview for which an
evidence-based interdisciplinary approach would be
appropriate.,
● Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership
strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific
organizational goals.,
○ Describe change theories and a leadership strategy that could
help develop an interdisciplinary solution to an organizational
issue.,
● 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; contains 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.
Professional Context
This assessment will introduce the Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) Model to create change
in an organization. By interviewing a colleague of your choice, you will begin gathering
information about an interprofessional collaboration problem that your colleague is
experiencing or has experienced. You will identify a change theory and leadership
strategies to help solve this problem.
Additional Requirements
● Length of submission: Use the provided template. 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.
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.
Scenario
This assessment is the first of three related assessments in which you will gather
interview information (Assessment 2); design a proposal for interdisciplinary
problem-solving, (Assessment 3); and report on how an interdisciplinary improvement
plan could be implemented in a place of practice (Assessment 4). At the end of the
course, your interviewee will have a proposal plan based on the PDSA cycle that he or
she could present to stakeholders to address an interdisciplinary problem in the
workplace.
For this assessment, you will need to interview a health care professional such as a
fellow learner, nursing colleague, administrator, business partner, or another appropriate
person who could provide you with sufficient information regarding an organizational
problem that he or she is experiencing or has experienced, or an area where they are
seeking improvements. Consult the Interview Guide [DOCX]
Download Interview Guide [DOCX]
for an outline of how to prepare and the types of information you will need to complete
this project successfully.
Remember: this is just the first in a series of three assessments.
