NURS FPX 4005 Assessment 3 Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

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Capella University
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Interdisciplinary Plan Proposal

This proposal introduces an interdisciplinary enhancement proposal aimed at improving communication operations and making teamwork effective. The aim is to minimize medication errors, enhance patient safety, and improve workflow efficiency within departments by deploying coordinated communication tools and standardized processes.

NURS FPX 4005 Assessment 3 Objective

The purpose is to introduce standardized interdisciplinary communication interventions, including daily huddles, SBAR, and a structured medication reconciliation checklist, to provide a timely and accurate documentation of medications to all patients admitted. This goal will minimize the number of medication-related errors, increase patient safety, improve the overall clinical outcomes, and decrease unnecessary costs incurred by the organization.

Questions and Predictions

What is the impact of the daily use of interdisciplinary huddles on the accuracy of medication reconciliation?

The situation will improve in 4-6 weeks when the workflows will be synchronized, and the situation will be proactively shared.

Change Theories and Leadership Strategies

The Change Theory by Lewin would offer a systematic approach toward informing the enhancement of medication reconciliation within Riverside Community Hospital. Transformational leadership will also enhance the effectiveness of this plan by empowering and encouraging employees to a common goal of zero-harm medication administration.

Nurse managers and pharmacy leaders will clearly state this vision, motivate employees to bring ideas on how to improve things at the huddle, and reward proper and timely communication efforts. Leaders demonstrate credibility and reinforce expectations through the modeling of the use of SBAR and checklists themselves (Yun et al., 2023).

Team Collaboration Strategy

The plan will be successfully implemented by having well-defined roles in the form of who, what, where, and when. Medication reconciliation will be started by nurses as soon as patients are admitted to the hospital, and with the help of SBAR, such discrepancies will be reported. They will do this at the bedside, during handoffs, and during daily huddles. The physicians will review and validate medication lists, and discrepancies detected by the team will be resolved.

Required Organizational Resources

The staffing changes needed to implement this plan will be small, and the current staff will be used efficiently. Every individual on the staff will have to spend 5-10 minutes each day in daily huddles, and the NURS FPX 4005 Assessment 3 manager will offer short-term supervision to check the early adoption. No new positions are anticipated, as small adjustments in the pharmacist schedules can be made to ensure their participation.

These changes can be handled in the present workforce structure at Riverside Community Hospital. The optimal utilization of existing personnel goes along with the evidence that improvement in interdisciplinary communication may often demand modification of workflow, but not the addition of staff (Janssens et al., 2024).

The equipment and supply requirements are not high because the hospital already possesses a significant number of required resources. There will be minimal IT customization needed to implement an EMR-built medication reconciliation checklist, approximately 1,000-3,000. SBAR templates and quick guides are cheap in terms of printing (under $50–100).

Interdisciplinary huddles can take place in the available unit workrooms and conference areas, and team members will still receive the EMR system and patient census data of the hospital without paying access fees anymore. The studies indicate that structured safety tools, like SBAR and EMR-based checklists, can enhance medication communication with considerable effects with only minor resource expenditure (Browning et al., 2025).

Conclusion

Poor medication outlining practices still pose extreme safety and economic threats at Riverside Community Hospital. Introduction of formal interdisciplinary instruments like daily huddles, SBAR communication, and EMR-based checklists can help greatly improve medication accuracy and collaboration among team members.

This plan will provide an effective, well-grounded method of enhancing patient safety and efficiency of workflow, guided by the Change Theory developed by Lewin and transformational leadership. On the whole, the suggested strategy can minimize the number of errors, enhance teamwork, and contribute to improved organizational performance.

References

Browning, L., Raza-Khan, U., Leggat, S., & Boyd, J. H. (2025). https://doi.org/10.1155/jonm/5585723

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