Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

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1. • Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

     Strategies for Managing Financial Resources to Promote Organizational Health

     Financial resource management involves handling and monitoring routine financial operations, including making capital available to facilitate healthcare expenses such as payroll, negotiating contracts, and maintaining a cash cushion to sort out unexpected costs. Healthcare managers are subjected to diverse challenges when implementing strategies to attain significant organizational objectives (Boso et al., 2017). However, strategies must be put in place to reduce incurred costs, while simultaneously enhancing patient outcomes and overall care. Nonetheless, organizational strategies have proven challenging to execute as the institutional settings become more complex as success is more dependent on the capacity to effectively manage employees across departments (Boso et al., 2017). Managers should focus on strategies that entail lowering costs, enhancing patient services and care quality, and significant restructuring to enhance communications and performance. 

     The first strategy to manage financial resources is assessing the financial effectiveness and diverse operations within the healthcare organization. The approach allows healthcare managers to plan for the future, and work on a practical budget while planning any developmental projects (Boso et al., 2017). The second strategy is by assessing long-term investment decisions. The financial team operates on a hierarchy, and thus input should be taken from all departments, especially when introducing a significant business investment. The team should analyze the execution strategies to understand the effect of the investment on the financial future of the healthcare organization (Boso et al., 2017). The financial team should also review and understand the project's cost to evaluate any gaps that the project might bring forth on the organization's stability. Further, the institution should venture into working capital management to reduce unnecessary costs and enhance an organization's effective operation or running. 

     Impact of Interdisciplinary Collaboration on Patient and System Outcomes

     According to the World Health Organization, inter-professional to interdisciplinary collaboration enhance quality care outcomes. It is a system whereby multiple health professionals or workers from diverse professional backgrounds work in unison with families, patients, communities, and care providers to deliver effective and high-quality care to patients (Reeves, Pelone, Harrison, Goldman, & Zwarenstein, 2017). Effective healthcare collaboration remains a significant strategy for healthcare reforms. Healthcare collaborations have been proved to enhance patient outcomes by eliminating preventable drug events and reducing morbidity rates and mortality incidents. As such, interdisciplinary collaboration enhances patient care quality and overall outcomes.

     Every individual presents a unique perspective and valuable insights concerning the patient's health status, and they can notice diverse symptoms and incorporate different possibilities (Reeves, Pelone, Harrison, Goldman, & Zwarenstein, 2017). Together, they offer a more comprehensive and holistic perspective of the patient's condition. Through care meetings, several care institutions enhance interdisciplinary collaboration through effective communication, and encourage team-based, patient-centered rounds to keep a close eye on patients, assess their progress, and make informed decisions concerning their status (Reeves, Pelone, Harrison, Goldman, & Zwarenstein, 2017). 

     Introducing interdisciplinary collaboration also helps to reduce medical errors such as missed symptoms, misdiagnoses, and other errors. Notably, it is easy to detect likely healthcare accidents when multiple doctors prescribe different medications and numerous nurses are on the ground to deliver the medications (Reeves, Pelone, Harrison, Goldman, & Zwarenstein, 2017). Collaboration enhances effective clinical communication, meaning all care providers get to handle patients safely. Moreover, collaboration reduces inefficiencies and resultant care costs. Inter-professional collaboration in healthcare is effective in preventing likely medication errors, enhancing patient experience, and delivering effective patient outcomes (Reeves, Pelone, Harrison, Goldman, & Zwarenstein, 2017). Avoiding these inconsistencies helps healthcare organizations reduce unnecessary expenses and costs by shoring up workflow redundancies and operational inefficiencies.

     Change Management Theories and Leadership

     Kurt Lewin's change model accounts for change resistance and uncertainty that staff across diverse organizational levels can experience. Lewin further suggests that lack of cooperation between staff, distrust in diverse unproven procedures, and fear from changing the course of action are significant barriers to change implementation (Kaminski, 2011). Therefore, to enable interdisciplinary teams, every individual should be willing to change how systems operate and embrace a more way efficient of doing things. Leadership plays an integral role in streamlining organizational procedures (Kaminski, 2011). Therefore, it is essential to embrace the democratic leadership style where all departmental members are allowed to adopt a more participative role in decision-making. By enhancing a culture of inclusion and involvement, team members and departments are bound to feel appreciated, valued, and integrated into the organization (Kaminski, 2011). This means that effective collaboration works well when every team member is allowed to voice concerns regarding patient care, quality outcomes, and other significant healthcare events. 

      

     Professional, Scholarly, Evidence-based Communication Strategies 

     The simple move of creative meetings to discuss organizational issues sounds more open and friendlier. Evidence suggests that regular organizational meetings in healthcare settings enhance cooperation and prioritization of patients' needs to improve their perception of quality and overall satisfaction (Dirksen et al., 2013). Meetings, emails, messages, or electronic exchange of patient data are diverse forms of professional communication that enables healthcare workers to stay informed concerning patient matters. Besides enhancing efficiency, it streamlines operations to ensure healthcare organizations are in sync concerning patient needs and when or how to offer those services. Effective communication in nursing fosters healthy relationships, requires active listening, and should be bilateral to avoid misunderstandings and unnecessary details (Dirksen et al., 2013). Therefore, the best communication strategies should be built to embrace change and adopt the best leadership approaches to enhance consistency. 

     References

     Boso, N., Danso, A., Leonidou, C., Uddin, M., Adeola, O., & Hultman, M. (2017). Does financial resource slack drive sustainability expenditure in developing economy small and medium-sized enterprises? Journal of Business Research, 80, 247-256.

     Dirksen, C. D., Utens, C. M., Joore, M. A., Van Barneveld, T. A., Boer, B., Dreesens, D. H., ... & van der Weijden, T. (2013). Integrating evidence on patient preferences in healthcare policy decisions: protocol of the patient-VIP study. Implementation Science, 8(1), 64.

     Kaminski, J. (2011). Theory applied to informatics-Lewin’s change theory. Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics, 6(1).

     Reeves, S., Pelone, F., Harrison, R., Goldman, J., & Zwarenstein, M. (2017). Interprofessional collaboration to improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, (6).

     40.QUESTION

     Part 1: Target group and health challenge: Select one of the following target groups AND a significant health care challenge facing this group. Indigenous Australians OR A CALD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse) group in Australia. Part 2: Action Plan Create an action plan and upload with your original post. Your action plan should identify a target group and a health challenge they experience. Outline strategies you might implement to promote health and independence in this target group. State how you would evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies. To construct you action plan use the attached template. Part 3: Original Discussion Post Your action plan will be supported by an original post (300-500 words excluding references) addressing the theme and elaborating on your action plan. Core components: Introduce your chosen group and the health challenge they experience. Qualify the significance of the health challenge for your chosen community. Provide a brief rationale for methods/tools that you will use to promote health and independence. These must be within the scope of a community health nurse. Describe how you have incorporated cultural safety into your planning for this diverse group. Outline your evaluation strategy/strategies. These must be within the scope of a community health nurse. Peer engagement - To promote engagement of your peers with your work it should include some statements or questions that will encourage further discussion of your topic.   

     ANSWER

      Indigenous Communication Challenge Action Plan

      

     Group Chosen: Indigenous Australians

     Problem: Communication Gap in Healthcare

     Community Health Nursing Action Plan
     Target Group	Indigenous Australians
     Health Challenge	Communication Gap
     Promotion of Health	Health would be promoted by: Providing simpler explanations to concepts alien to Indigenous languages Interactive practice where indigenous people can interact with equipment Finding common ground between Western and indigenous understanding of diseases Recruiting more indigenous healthcare workers to improve trust
     Promotion of Independence	Independence can be promoted by: Practicing silence, a nod to indigenous common practice of pausing before answering Having interpreters who understand indigenous languages clearly Appreciating indigenous understanding of what causes diseases and body functions
     Evaluation of strategies	Evaluation of the strategies can be done by: Checking the trends for increased participation Surveying for changes in attitude to Western medicine Finding out the participation of indigenous people in communication channels.

      

     Discussion Post

     The group targeted with this healthcare action plan are the Indigenous people. These include those who live in the Northern territories, the Torres Islander Strait and the Aboriginal people among other Indigenous groups. Although limited literacy is not confined to the Indigenous people, it is greatly felt among Indigenous people. Consequently, the communication gap between the Indigenous people and the healthcare practitioners is a wide divide (Campbell et al., 2015). These speakers cannot understand codified medical concepts that are consistently used within the formal healthcare systems. They also fail to express the full extent of their symptoms and conditions to physicians and nurses, preventing them from getting the right remedies to the conditions that afflict them. In the end, these factors contribute to lower life expectancy

     Communication has a huge role to play within the healthcare set-up (Davy et al. 2016). Most of the evidence-based decisions that clinicians make in response to the patients’ conditions depend on how well they understood the patients’ signs and symptoms. This only happens through effective communication.  Decision-making also often revolves around the inclusion of the patient and the family of that patient within the decision-making process. This is in line with patient-centred care. For Indigenous language speakers, there is minimal chance that they would engage in decision-making in its fullest extent because of the linguistic barriers that exist. This then calls for a robust communication strategy to ensure that this section of the population can be brought into the healthcare participation for the improvement of healthcare outcomes.

     The strategies chosen for the promotion of health and independence would greatly help to improve the collaboration between the healthcare workers and the Indigenous patients and their families. It would also improve their participation in public health initiatives because they shall have understood the intention and benefits of such initiatives. Encouraging the explanation of alien concepts and terms associated with healthcare would help to demystify some misconceptions that the Indigenous people have about Western modes of treatment. Many Indigenous people have had their misgivings that information on healthcare is withheld deliberately. This founds the basis of the misconception about them that they do not for example want to experience pain. Improving communication removes such misconceptions, allowing for the Indigenous families to fully integrate into the healthcare system. In addition recruiting more Indigenous healthcare workers would encourage the Indigenous people to break their mistrust of the systems and find people they can express their deepest feelings for (Poroch et al, 2012). They would also be important in translation. Implementation of these strategies then would enable the community nurse to reach out to Indigenous populations, improving the quality of care afforded to them.

     The Indigenous people have sets of beliefs and practices with regard to health and the human well-being. Their belief in the role of witchcraft in sickness cannot be ignored. These beliefs must be understood and the rationale for the Western practices explained as well. For cultural reasons, Freeman et al. (2015) admits that the nurse would have to come to some form of common ground with the people of this Indigenous background. Because the Indigenous people value silence, there would be pauses while communicating to them the role of modern healthcare and the need for them to take part in it. This would send a message that what they value as a culture is valued within the healthcare system as well.

     The strategies described above would be evaluated by establishing the rate of participation in healthcare policy activities like vaccinations, disease control and public safety. When participation climbs, then the measures have worked. Limited participation still would signal the ineffectiveness of the strategies. Similarly, their enthusiasm to accept modern healthcare modes of treatment and equipment would also be a good indicator of the progress made by the tools used to promote health. Finally, how the Indigenous people participate in the established communication channels would also be used to gauge the effectiveness of the chosen interventions.

     Peer engagement

     1. How effective can translators be in solving the problem of communication and what challenges are associated with using them?
     2. What is the best way of reconciling the Indigenous belief in medicine and health with the modern methods of treatment and health policy?