Workplace Hazards Interdisciplinary Plan

Running head: INTERVIEW & INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUE IDENTIFICATION Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification YOUR NAME NURS-FPX4010 Capella University MONTH DAY, YEAR 1 INTERVIEW AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUE IDENTIFICATION Interview Summary The healthcare organization discussed in the interview is a hospital. Hospitals have various disciplines that work together to ensure that patients get timely and quality health care. The departments include specialists unit, surgery, and urgent care department, and support groups. One of the duties of a nurse practitioner is to offer essential and specialty treatment services to patients. The task involves assessing a patient’s health condition and the formulation of ways to manage the disease. Another role is the diagnosis of patient health issues and the creation of patient care plans. Patients with chronic disorders require care plans to manage their conditions. A nurse practitioner oversees and analyses medical tests and medication. Patients need close monitoring to know their response to drugs. One of the relevant issues in the hospital is workplace hazards that relate to poor working conditions. The close contact of nurse practitioners with patients exposes them to various injuries and infections. Hospitals have situated safe pass zones to reduce injuries and disease on nurse practitioners. Another issue is the shortage of healthcare staff in hospitals. The problem makes nurse practitioners dissatisfied and drained since they feel they don’t do enough. Long hours at work are another problem since the nurses are not enough to work in shifts. Workplace Hazards Interdisciplinary Plan

The hospital is staffing nurses to address workload and long working hours. Organizational cultures related to collaboration involve strong leadership, effective communication channels, interdisciplinary values, and goals. The experiences that the interviewee learned during interdisciplinary participation include better communication and teamwork, which improve patient care quality. Issue Identification The issue in the interview considered as an evidence-based interdisciplinary problem is the work hazard. The issue affects many disciplines in the hospital. An interdisciplinary 2 INTERVIEW AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUE IDENTIFICATION approach can solve the problem of work hazard because the issue affects different subjects, and solving it requires a team that will handle the problem. Another reason why the interdisciplinary approach can address the work hazards in hospitals is that the sharing of ideas from different disciplines ensures that there is an effective solution identified. Change Theories That Could Lead to an Interdisciplinary Solution The change theory used in this type of issue is chaos theory. The theory explains that, in predictable conditions, randomness is the result’s central determinant (Demir, 2019). Leaders should understand this theory because it is essential in their operations. The theory explains that when there is a good intention of the organization to improve the healthcare quality or safety in a hospital, some factors may be a challenge for success. Chaos theory is applicable in the organization for the analysis of initiative and adaptability among workers. Therefore, chaos theory can apply in providing an interdisciplinary solution by helping in taking care of an unknowable future, which might be risky. The theory is relevant when dealing with workplace hazards in hospitals. The method ensures that the leadership and the people involved can predict the changes which can occur and how they can impact the delivery of work. Nurse practitioners cannot work well and effectively if there is no provision of the necessary safety equipment in the hospital. Muhammet Sait Demir, Ahmet Karaman, and Seher Deniz Oztekin are the authors of the information used in the analysis of chaos Theory. The research done by the authors is accredited, and this makes it credible. The site is academic, and thus it gives information used by different researchers and other scholars in their areas of study. The data is unbiased. 3 INTERVIEW AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUE IDENTIFICATION Leadership Strategies That Could Lead to an Interdisciplinary Solution A leadership strategy ensures that an organization runs smoothly with effective measures made on the employees’ working environment. The leadership strategy that the interdisciplinary team can apply involves the identification of ways in which the employees are at risk and come up with solutions for the matter. The process of work hazard identification ensures that all the work hazards are circled for elimination, and this benefits all parties available in the hospital (Gul, 2018). When the strategy is applied, it will be effortless for the interdisciplinary team to concentrate on the identified risks to find a quick solution for the problem. Likewise, the team can use this strategy to prevent the occurrence of other work hazards in the hospital. There are a variety of work hazards that affect the operations of nurse practitioners. The leadership strategy of identifying those work hazards ensures that it is easy to eliminate them. Therefore, this makes the approach relevant to the interdisciplinary team because of its benefits in offering solutions for the issue. Muhammet Gul and Faith contributed to the information on the source. The data is accurate, and it is accredited, making it credible for use. The site they use is relevant, and the information they provide is unbiased. Collaboration Approaches for Interdisciplinary Teams The leadership approach is democratic. Democratic leadership approach is where leaders guide and direct their team but also take ideas and opinions before making a decision. The democratic approach improves collaboration since it allows leaders of all disciplines to contribute to ideas during decision-making processes (Woods, 2020). The plan encourages the satisfaction and development of all employees from all disciplines leading to better results. Disciplinary leaders feel a sense of belonging when raising issues affecting workers. Workers feel motivated when their opinions count in the decision-making process of the organization. 4 INTERVIEW AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUE IDENTIFICATION The democratic leadership approach empowers healthcare leaders in hospitals to work closely with nurse practitioners. The style allows leaders to take contributions from junior workers during decision-making processes. The leadership approach enables nurse practitioners to raise the problem of workplace hazards to their leaders. Democratic leaders create communication channels that help them to solve problems facing workers. The approach also enables leaders to listen to nurse practitioners’ complaints and take action to address them. Woods is the author of the information used, and it is accredited for educational use. The information provided by the author is unbiased. 5 INTERVIEW AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ISSUE IDENTIFICATION References Demir, M. S., & Oztekin, S. D. (2019). Chaos Theory and Nursing. International Journal of Caring Sciences, 12(2), 1-4. Gul, M., & Ak, M. F. (2018). A comparative outline for quantifying risk ratings in occupational health and safety risk assessment. Journal of cleaner production, 196, 653-664. Woods, P. A. (2020). Democratic leadership. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. 6 Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Write a brief introduction (2 to 3 sentences) to your proposal that outlines the issue you are attempting to solve, the part of the organization in which the plan would be carried out, and the desired outcome. This will set the stage for the sections below. Objective Describe what your plan will do and what you hope it will accomplish in one or two succinct sentences. Also, comment on how the objective, if achieved, will improve organizational or patient outcomes. For example: Test a double-loop feedback model for evaluating new product risk with a small group of project managers with the goal of reducing the number of new products that fail to launch. This objective is aligned to the broader organizational goal of becoming more efficient taking products to market and, if successful, should improve outcomes by reducing waste. Questions and Predictions For this section ask yourself 3 to 5 questions about your objective and your overall plan. Make a prediction for each question by answering the question you posed. This helps you to define the important aspects of your plan as well as limit the scope and check its ability to be implemented. For example: 1. How much time will using a double-loop feedback model add to a project manager’s workload? a. At first, it will likely increase their workloads by 5 to 10 percent. However, as the process is refined and project managers become more familiar and efficient, that percentage will decrease. Change Theories and Leadership Strategies For this section, you may wish to draw upon the research you did regarding change theories and leadership for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment. The focus of this section is how those best practices will create buy-in for the project from an interdisciplinary team, improve their collaboration, and/or foster the team’s ability to implement the plan. Be sure that you are including at least one change theory and at least one leadership strategy in your explanation. Always remember to cite your sources; direct quotes require quotation marks and a page or paragraph number to be included in the citation. Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following: • What is the theory or strategy?

• How will it likely help an interdisciplinary team to collaborate, implement, and/or buy in to the project plan? o Make sure to frame this explanation within the organizational context of the proposed plan, that is, your interviewee’s organization. Team Collaboration Strategy In this section, begin by further defining the responsibilities and actions that represent the implementation of the plan. One strategy to defining this is to take a “who, what, where, and when” approach for each team member. For example: • Project Manager A will apply the double-loop feedback model on one new product project for a single quarter. • Project Manager B will apply the double-loop feedback model on all new product projects for a quarter. Vice President A will review the workloads of project managers using the double-loop feedback model every Thursday for one quarter. After you have roughly outlined the roles and responsibilities of team members, you will explain one or more collaborative approaches that will enable the team to work efficiently to achieve the plan’s objective. As with the change theories and leadership strategies, you may draw on the research you conducted for the Interview and Interdisciplinary Issue Identification assessment. However, you are being asked to give a more in-depth explanation of the collaboration approaches and look at how they will help the theoretical interdisciplinary team in your plan proposal. Another way to approach your explanations in this section is to think through the following: • What is the collaboration approach? • What types of collaboration and teamwork will best help the interdisciplinary team be successful?

• How is the collaboration approach relevant to the team’s needs and will it help drive success? o Make sure to frame this explanation in terms of the subject of the plan proposal; that is, your interviewee’s organization. Required Organizational Resources For this section, you will be making rough estimates of the resources needed for your plan proposal to be successful. This section does not have to be exact but the estimates should be realistic for the chosen organization. Items you should include or address in this section: • What are the staffing needs for your plan proposal? • What equipment or supplies are needed for your plan proposal? o Does the organization already have these?

• ▪ If so, what is the cost associated with using these resources? ▪ If not, what is the cost of acquiring these resources? What access (to patients, departments, and so forth) is needed? o Are there any costs associated with these? • What is the overall financial budget request for the plan proposal? o Staff time, resource use, resource acquisition, and access charged? ▪ Remember to include a specific dollar amount in your request. After you have detailed your budget, make sure that you explain any impacts on organizational resources that could happen if your plan is not undertaken and successful. In other words, if the issue you are try to solve through your plan proposal persists or gets worse, what will be the potential costs to the organization? References …