N402 Interprofessional Meeting AnalysisInstructions
Communication and collaboration among healthcare professionals are critical to delivering high quality and safe patient care (AACN, 2008, p.3)
Assignment Overview
This assignment is designed to incorporate interprofessional learning from the course to analyze an interprofessional meeting that you will attend(you may attend virtually or in person). The meeting should include nursing and multiple disciplines other than nursing and be in an preferably an area outside of your unit /floor/ current work environment ( if this is not possible it must be a committee or meeting that you do not already participate in .
Following the instructions and the rubric you will write an analysis that applies detailed synthesis regarding interprofessional communication and collaborationand incorporatescourse learning and concepts to evaluate your chosen meeting.
You should include a minimum of 8 in text citations(paraphrased)in your analysis with appropriate references. The analysis should include a title page, be written in APA 7th ed. format, Times New Roman 12 font, double spaced, include a reference page and be no more than 10 pages (with title page and references included) You may use course texts and articles as your citations.
Some suggested meetings: Root Cause Analysis, Case Meetings, Dietary planning, Multitherapy meetings, Interdisciplinary discharge, orcommittees such as falls, infection, skin, leadership, magnate, education, or products. These are just a few examples.Ensure you received email permission from your instructor prior to attending the meeting.
You will be required to submit a contact information form with the committee chairs contact information as part of this assignment.
Instructions
For this assignment your role will be as an observer of the processes in the meeting.
For privacy please do not list facility names or members names. Example: Please use a general description of the facility: a large urban hospital that has 250 beds and employs 600 staff. Use committee members and meeting attendees’ initials and title: Dr. JR, Medical Director/meeting chair.
Concepts and items to evaluate/include in the analysis:
- Committee Name, date of meeting, number of members, problems addressed in the committee/committee purpose: include if there is a meeting agenda and/ or how the purpose of the meeting communicated, are there minutes and if past minutes are reviewed.
- Hierarchical structure of the committee. The leader’s role within the committee, are roles elected, term, etc.
- Disciplines in the committee: who is in attendance and what are their roles
- Communication styles within the committee: verbal, paraverbal, non-verbal, passive, assertive, aggressive etc.
- Perceived Barriers to the communication within the committee with explanation.
- Behaviors demonstrated within the committeeand their impact on effective message transmission. Some suggestions:Silence, Open-ended questions, Distance reduction, Restating and Clarification, Focusing, Summarizing, Collaboration, Honesty, Genuineness, Respect, Empathy
- Process to move ideas forward: formal or informal? Consensus? Voting? Does there need to be more than the committee’s approval: Leadership, budgetary, etc.
- Perceived stage of the committee and explanation why you believe they are in the stage chosen: forming, storming, norming, preforming, adjourning
- Discussion: Provide observations/suggestions that might have made the meeting more collaborative or could be improved upon within the team and support with evidence from the course learning. Did the meeting provide insight into successful problem solving? Why or why not? What surprised you most about the meeting? Discuss nursing’s interactions within the meeting. What would you do as nurse if you were in attendance to demonstrate professional nursing practice and standards?
- Conclusion: Did the meeting you attended align with concepts from the course regarding interprofessional collaboration and communication: why or why not? Discuss what you learned and your takeaway about interprofessional team, communication, and collaboration from this experience.