For this assessment, use the context of the organization where you conducted your
interview to develop a viable plan for an interdisciplinary team to address the issue you
identified. Define a specific patient or organizational outcome or objective based on the
information gathered in your interview.
The goal of this assessment is to clearly lay out the improvement objective for your
planned interdisciplinary intervention of the issue you identified. Additionally, be sure to
further build on the leadership, change, and collaboration research you completed in the
previous assessment. Look for specific, real-world ways in which those strategies and
best practices could be applied to encourage buy-in for the plan or facilitate the
implementation of the plan for the best possible outcome.
Using the Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template [DOCX]
Download Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal Template [DOCX]
will help you stay organized and concise. As you complete each section of the template,
make sure you apply APA format to in-text citations for the evidence and best practices
that inform your plan, as well as the reference list at the end.
Additionally, be sure that your plan addresses the following, which corresponds to the
grading criteria in the scoring guide. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you
understand what is needed for a distinguished score.
● Describe an objective and predictions for an evidence-based
interdisciplinary plan to achieve a specific goal related to improving patient
or organizational outcomes.
● Explain a change theory and a leadership strategy supported by relevant
evidence, that is most likely to help an interdisciplinary team succeed in
collaborating and implementing, or creating buy-in for, the project plan.
● Explain the collaboration needed by an interdisciplinary team to improve
the likelihood of achieving the plan’s objective. Include best practices of
interdisciplinary collaboration from the literature.
● Explain organizational resources including a financial budget needed for
the plan to succeed and the impacts on those resources if the
improvements described in the plan are not made.
● Communicate the interdisciplinary plan with writing that is clear, logically
organized, and professional, with correct grammar and spelling, using
current APA style.
Professional Context
This assessment will allow you to describe a plan proposal that includes an analysis of
best practices of interprofessional collaboration, change theory, leadership strategies,
and organizational resources with a financial budget that can be used to solve the
problem identified through the interview you conducted in the prior assessment.
Scenario
Having reviewed the information gleaned from your professional interview and identified
the issue, you will determine and present an objective for an interdisciplinary
intervention to address the issue.
Note: You will not be expected to implement the plan during this course. However, the
plan should be evidence-based and realistic within the context of the issue and your
interviewee’s organization.
Additional Requirements
● Length of submission: Use the provided template. Remember that part of
this assessment is to make the plan easy to understand and use, so it is
critical that you are clear and concise. Most submissions will be 2 to 4
pages in length. Be sure to include a reference page at the end of the plan.
● Number of references: Cite a minimum of 3 sources of scholarly or
professional evidence that support your central ideas. Resources should be
no more than 5 years old.
● APA formatting: Make sure that in-text citations and reference list follow
current APA style.
