WEEK 3-LEADING INTERPROFESSIONAL

Week 3Leading Interprofessional Teams

Discussion

Purpose

The purpose of this discussion is to explore your interprofessional collaboration skills to sustain a practice change project, manage conflict, and apply a professional practice model effectively.

Instructions

DNP-prepared nurses typically lead and manage interprofessional teams, departments, divisions, and healthcare organizations. Refer to the interactive exercise from this week’s lesson and respond to the following:

1. Determine what strategy you can envision using as a DNP-prepared nurse to sustain project improvements through intra- and interprofessional collaboration.

2. Using the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode model, describe your typical reactionary style of conflict management and what you need to develop to deal with conflict in a collaborating mode, as guided by one of the interprofessional collaboration models.

3. Propose how a professional practice model might overcome barriers to leading a practice change project in an interprofessional environment.

Construct your responses using the CARE Plan method.

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Course Outcomes

This discussion enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

1. Compare and contrast theories of organizational behavior and leadership. (PO6)

2. Investigate the role of advanced nursing practice in innovation and transformation to propose solutions impacting healthcare systems. (PO 6)

3. Differentiate attributes of effective leaders and followers in influencing healthcare. (PO 6)

4. Assimilate attributes for interprofessional collaboration across healthcare settings. (PO 8)