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Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video

Hello everyone, I am —— and today, in this video on collaboration and leadership, I will discuss my experience of interdisciplinary collaboration in the healthcare setting where I work as a registered nurse. I will also discuss the positives and negatives of my experience with interprofessional team collaboration. Additionally, I will explain how poor collaboration leads to inefficient management of human and financial resources. Moreover, I will highlight some leadership and collaboration strategies to enhance teamwork and improve patient healthcare outcomes. 

Interdisciplinary team collaboration is a strategic way of providing holistic care to patients requiring multifaceted care treatments. Patients with chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, stroke, etc., require care coordination from a multidisciplinary team approach. In this approach, a team of different disciplines meet and communicate together to create care plans for patients and deliver coordinated care of high quality (Flaherty & Bartels, 2019).

This approach not only improves patient safety and health outcomes but also results in enhanced work productivity and job satisfaction. Furthermore, collaboration and communication within a multidisciplinary team foster a conducive environment for the healthcare workforce and patients. Therefore, healthcare organizations must integrate interdisciplinary team collaboration within systems to achieve desired patient health outcomes (Flaherty & Bartels, 2019).

Interdisciplinary Collaboration Experience

  The interdisciplinary team of physicians, pharmacists, nurses, nutritionists, and physical therapists met on one fine day to discuss a diabetic patient’s case. This collaboration aimed to improve patient’s health outcomes and experience with the help of care coordination and patient-centered care. My experience had some successful and unsuccessful aspects in achieving the desired outcomes of this collaboration. 

The interdisciplinary team promoted effective and improved communication among team members where we discussed the patient’s care plan, patient education on diabetes, and providing Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support program. This collaboration also helped provide holistic and patient-centered care. The patient could acquire comprehensive care from all professionals, taking account of their emotional, physical, and psychosocial well-being. This collaboration also tapped into each member’s specialized knowledge and expertise regarding patients and enhanced interprofessional knowledge among team members. Lastly, the interprofessional collaboration experience enhanced patient satisfaction due to shared decision-making.

NURS FPX 4010 Assessment 1 Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video

While the interprofessional collaboration experience resulted in successful aspects, the team faced some challenges. One major challenge was conflict and resistance to changing traditional roles and practices. For instance, one of the team members did not agree with the idea of telehealth-based DSMES and required the patient to receive the program at the clinic.

Furthermore, the time schedules were significant challenges which prevented a few members from attending the meeting. For improving future practices, some of my reflective nursing practices are team debriefing sessions to discuss the productivity of collaboration and prospective improvements that can be brought. Another way to improve future practice includes education and training to develop effective collaboration, communication, and conflict-resolution skills to navigate similar circumstances better.

Poor Collaboration and Inefficient Management of Resources

There were specific points in my interdisciplinary collaboration experience where poor collaboration led to inefficient management of human and financial resources. One significant challenge that led to poor collaboration was the need for clear communication among interdisciplinary team members (Khatri et al., 2023). Despite conducting regular meetings for multidisciplinary team collaboration on coordinating care for diabetic patients, some team members were not assertive in expressing their concerns and opinions clearly. Ultimately, the patient care provided was of sub-optimal value.

Furthermore, the lack of agreements with pharmacists and other team members resulted in major conflicts and poor care coordination and collaboration (Khatri et al., 2023). This resulted in inefficient management of human resources as some team members wanted to care and coordinate while others were reluctant to make personal relationshi