Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts: Leading Interprofessional Teams

Applied Organizational and Leadership Concepts

Leading Interprofessional Teams

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:

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

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.

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.

Please click on the following link to review the DNP Discussion Guidelines on the Student Resource Center program page:

Link (webpage): DNP Discussion Guidelines (Links to an external site.)

Course Outcomes

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

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

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

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

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