INTERVIEW & INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUE IDENTIFICATION 5 Leadership strategies 

INTERVIEW & INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUE IDENTIFICATION 5 Leadership strategies 

As the change can cause some resistance, transformational and servant as a leader leadership styles aid in increasing collaboration between the interdisciplinary team (Hunitie, 2016). The leader should employ strategies such as group discussions, understanding perspectives of stakeholders, motivating professionals, creating an action plan for collaboration, providing support, creating an inclusive and culture-based work environment, adopting root-cause analysis to reduce blame culture, and provide a direct communication channel for all members of the team along with error reporting system so that there is no delay in communication and patient get their medications in time (Hunitie, 2016). Also, sharing work burden during medication administration to reduce interferences through staffing and scheduling will be effective (Jember et al., 2018). 

Collaborative approaches from the literature 

Manias (2018) proposed a multimodal interdisciplinary collaboration model, which included communication through tools, communication logs, collaborative medication review, effective following of protocols and guidelines, direct involvement of pharmacists, and collaborative conferences and workshops. This model source is effective as it includes all disciplines and addresses all the medication error issues. Tena et al. (2018) proposed root-cause analysis with a safety checklist to find any discrepancies in patient information. This is another effective source in preventing wrong information. Jember et al. (2018) and Srinivasamurthy et al. (2021) highlighted the positive impact of including a medication error system with computerized physician entry to reduce medication errors by involving all stakeholders. This system integrated with above-mentioned approaches increases interdisciplinary collaboration to reduce medication errors.

INTERVIEW & INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUE IDENTIFICATION 6 References 

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Hunitie, M. (2016). A cross-sectional study of the impact of transformational leadership on integrative conflict management. Asian Social Science, 12(5), 47. 

https://doi.org/10.5539/ass.v12n5p47

Jember, A., Hailu, M., Messele, A., Demeke, T., & Hassen, M. (2018). Proportion of medication error reporting and associated factors among nurses: a cross sectional study. BMC Nursing, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-018-0280-4