NURS FPX 4010 Assessment 1 Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video

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NURS-FPX 4010 Leading in Intrprof Practice

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Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my reflection video on an interdisciplinary collaboration and leadership experience in a community mental health center. I will start by providing a short background on the case study and discussing collaboration’s successful and ineffective aspects. Later, I will discuss how a lack of coordination led to inefficient management of human and financial resources, highlighting some leadership and harmonization approaches to enhance the quality of services in future situations. 

Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Reflective Practice 

Summary of the Case Study 

This case study examines interprofessional collaboration in a community mental health center serving diverse patients with mental health conditions. The team comprises psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, and community health workers collaborating to provide assessment, treatment, and referrals. This collaborative environment illustrates the strengths and challenges of interprofessional teamwork in addressing complex mental health issues.

Successful Points 

Interdisciplinary collaboration is critical in delivering patient-centered care, particularly in complex settings like mental health (Geese & Schmitt, 2023). The team demonstrated success through its diverse expertise and shared commitment to holistic care. Each professional contributed unique insights, creating a multifaceted approach to mental health management. Their shared commitment to patient-centered care fosters tailored interventions, particularly for patients with complex conditions and diverse cultural backgrounds. For example, social workers provided essential support in addressing patients’ social determinants of health. This collaborative effort enhanced patient care and helped address the multifaceted nature of mental health conditions.

Challenges/Unsuccessful Points 

However, the case study highlights several challenges to interprofessional collaboration. A primary issue is communication gaps, where limited sharing of patient information among team members leads to poor patient outcomes, care delays, ineffective resource management, and medical errors (Alder, 2023). Additionally, resource constraints significantly hinder collaboration. Social workers struggle with inadequate community resources, limiting their ability to address patients’ social determinants of health.

Workplace stress is another barrier to effective care delivery and interdisciplinary coordination, with nurses experiencing high workloads and burnout due to multitasking and frequent crisis management (Thapa et al., 2022). Meanwhile, community health workers face cultural and linguistic barriers, which complicate patient communication and reduce treatment plan adherence. These challenges demonstrate the need for comprehensive strategies to enhance collaboration for quality care. 

Importance of Reflective Nursing Practice 

According to Patel and Metersky (2021), reflection allows nurses to be aware of their philosophies, practices, and standards related to patient care. This assists them in making future decisions by considering how their actions influence patient outcomes and team dynamics. Moreover, reflection helps nurses internalize lessons, adapt to evolving healthcare environments, and enhance their problem-solving abilities (Shin et al., 2022). Over time, this process builds resilience, strengthens professional growth, and ensures that nurses consistently deliver evidence-based, patient-centered care while contributing effectively to interdisciplinary teams.

Disorganized Management of Human and Financial Resources 

Inefficient Management of Human Resources

Poor collaboration often leads to ineffective use of human resources, as seen in our case scenario at a community mental health center. Lack of coordination results in increased workload, burnout, and role redundancy for team members. Nurses and other healthcare workers face excessive stress due to multitasking and handling crises alone. This ultimately reduces their efficiency at work and increases turnover rates (Thapa et al., 2022).

Additionally, a lack of clear role delineation creates conflicts and confusion within teams, reducing productivity and teamwork. Finally, communication gaps result in duplicated efforts, such as repeated assessments or overlapping interventions (Alder, 2023). This impacts human abilities and drains the energies of already burned-out professionals. Addressing these issues through coordinated communication and clear role allocation can improve staff satisfaction and ensure optimal utilization of human resources.

Inefficient Management of Financial Resources

At the same time, lack of coordination between team members affects the management of financial resources, resulting in high costs caused by mistakes, wastage, and over-expenditures. Miscommunication related to medical errors leads to significant costs. For example, research shows that communication breakdowns have been blamed for $1.7 billion in lawsuit costs and almost 2000 preventable deaths (Alder, 2023). In the same way, repetitive processes like duplicative diagnostic testing consume scarce funds that can be used to attend to patients.

Moreover, if left unmet, the social determinants of health increase the use of emergency departments and higher cost implications for preventable complications (Ware et al., 2022). Better collaboration practices include integrated care models and shared electronic health records, which can reduce unnecessary expenses and ensure financial resources are allocated effectively for quality care delivery.

Leadership Strategies for Team to Achieve Goals

​​Some leadership interventions that can be supported by research to foster collaboration among the teams to meet their goals and objectives include goal and role clarity and shared leadership. 

Goal and Role Clarification of the Team

Leadership can enhance collaboration between professionals when team goals and objectives are well stated and the duties and responsibilities of the team members are defined. According to Mwakyusa and Mcharo (2024), a lack of clarity of roles results in employee demotives in their working area, particularly the health sector, resulting in inferior patient care and shaky organizational performance. When goals are described in detail and responsibilities given according to certain specializations, the team aims to achieve easily measurable results. Such clarity fosters responsibility increases efficiency, and makes it easier for the team to pull in one direction to meet its goals.

Promoting Shared Leadership

Another leadership strategy is encouraging shared leadership frameworks. This is achieved by ensuring that every worker in the team, irrespective of their position, can input their knowledge and engage in decision-making (Deckers & Zaalen, 2024). Through engagement, leaders create openness, improving the flow of ideas and hence aligning patient care and attending to the weary staff. Self-managed teams are also more prepared for problems like heavy workloads and limited resources since everyone supports each other. 

Collaboration Strategies for Teams to Achieve Goals

One of the best practice recommendations to enhance interdisciplinary practice is implementing collaborative care approaches for shared care delivery. Research has indicated that collaborative care leads to better patient outcomes, decreased healthcare costs, better use of resources, and better access to care due to a better flow of information and care coordination (Hernandez et al., 2024). Organizational leaders can apply this model by promoting mutual respect and trust, providing chances for group problem-solving, and sharing childcare.

Another good practice is to conduct the employees through continuous professional development in communication and cultural sensitivity. The training should, therefore, aim to cultivate the skills of listening and consciousness of patient needs, especially in the multicultural aspect (Soltanian et al., 2023). Professionals participating in interprofessional communication reported lower misunderstanding incidents and higher patient satisfaction if they continually completed communication skills sessions and cultural competence exercises with healthcare teams. The enhancement of professional practice leads to the growth of the individual and the team, the enhancement of teamwork, and the minimization of the effects of workplace stress.

Conclusion

In conclusion, this discussion focuses on interprofessional collaboration in holistically responding to mental health needs. The barriers include communication disparities, resource scarcity, work-related stress, and language and cultural differences. However, goals and objectives, decision-making, cooperation, and team training can improve collaboration and coordination to the patient’s benefit. When these challenges are managed, and teams adopt best practices, mental health teams can effectively address barriers, enhance care delivery, and achieve improved, patient-centered, and sustainable goals. 

References

Alder, S. (2023, December 23). Effects of poor communication in healthcare. The HIPAA Journal. https://www.hipaajournal.com/effects-of-poor-communication-in-healthcare/ 

Deckers, M., & Zaalen, Y. van. (2024). Insights into shared decision-making in interprofessional teams for a boy with Down syndrome with communication and language issues: Simulation-Based training for medical and allied health students. Healthcare, 12(6), 681–681. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12060681 

NURS FPX 4010 Assessment 1 Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video

Geese, F., & Schmitt, K.-U. (2023). Interprofessional collaboration in complex patient care transition: A qualitative multi-perspective analysis. Healthcare, 11(3), 359. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11030359 

Hernandez, V., Nasser, L., Do, C., & Lee, W.-C. (2024). Healing the whole: An international review of the collaborative care model between primary care and psychiatry. Healthcare, 12(16), 1679–1679. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12161679 

Mwakyusa, J. R. P., & Mcharo, E. W. (2024). Role ambiguity and role conflict effects on employees’ emotional exhaustion in healthcare services in Tanzania. Cogent Business & Management, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23311975.2024.2326237 

Patel, K., & Metersky, K. (2021). Reflective practice in nursing: A concept analysis. International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, 33(3), 180–187. https://doi.org/10.1111/2047-3095.12350 

Shin, S., Hong, E., Do, J., Lee, M. S., Jung, Y., & Lee, I. (2022). Development of critical reflection competency scale for clinical nurses. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(6), 3483. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063483 

Soltanian, M., Zeidani, A., Edraki, M., & Mirshah, E. (2023). The effect of the communication skills training on the sensitivity and cultural competence of the nurses in the pediatric wards: A quasi-experimental study. Journal of Education and Health Promotion, 12(1), 212–212. https://doi.org/10.4103/jehp.jehp_898_22 

NURS FPX 4010 Assessment 1 Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video

Thapa, D. R., Subedi, M., Ekström-Bergström, A., Areskoug Josefsson, K., & Krettek, A. (2022). Facilitators for and barriers to nurses’ work-related health – A qualitative study. BMC Nursing, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-022-01003-z 

Ware, K. S., Chidume, T., & Chou, C. (2022). Social determinants of health and preventable emergency department patient encounters among adults with hypertension. Public Health Nursing, 40(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.13152