Overview

Explain the concept of true collaboration in health care and describe the benefits of effective interdisciplinary collaboration. Then, describe the characteristics required for effective collaboration, describe barriers to collaboration, and offer evidence-based strategies to overcome those barriers.

By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and assessment criteria:

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• Competency 1: Explain the principles and practices of highly effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Explain the concept of collaboration in health care.
  • Describe the characteristics and concepts required for effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Describe barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Identify evidence-based strategies to overcome barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Competency 3: Explain the internal and external factors that can affect the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations.
  • Describe the benefits of effective collaboration and teamwork in health care for patients, organizations, and team members.

  Context

  Every day, in every patient setting, health care professionals must interact with other health care professionals, as well as with providers from other professions to share information, conduct safety and quality checks, and work with patients in a variety of ways to make sure they understand their health care needs and will be more likely to comply with treatment plans.

  Research consistently shows that interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork improves the quality and safety of patient care by recognizing the skills and experience of each team member, allowing the team to function more effectively and efficiently.

• Assessment Instructions

  You are part of an interdisciplinary team that has been highly effective. Your supervisor asks you to write a short article about why the team has been so successful and submit it to the organizational newsletter for publication.

  Preparation

  Search the Capella library and the Internet for peer-reviewed journal articles on collaboration and teamwork in health care. You will need at least 3 articles to support your work on this assessment.

  Directions

  In the article you write for this assessment, be sure you do the following:

  • Explain the concept of true collaboration in health care.
  • Describe the benefits of effective collaboration and teamwork in health care for the following groups:
    • Patients.
    • Organizations.
    • Team members.
  • Describe the characteristics and concepts required for effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Describe barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Identify evidence-based strategies to overcome barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration.
  • Format this assessment according to current APA style and formatting guidelines.

  Additional Requirements

  • Include a title page and reference page.
  • Ensure your assessment is 3–4 pages.
  • Use double-spaced, 12-pt., Times New Roman font.

  Collaboration and Teamwork in Health Care Scoring Guide

  CRITERIA	NON-PERFORMANCE	BASIC	PROFICIENT	DISTINGUISHED
  Explain the concept of collaboration in health care.	Does not explain the concept of collaboration in health care.	Explains the concept of collaboration but not in the context of health care, or the explanation is missing key elements.	Explains the concept of collaboration in health care.	Explains the concept of collaboration in health care and describes the unique aspects of collaboration in health care.
  Describe the benefits of effective collaboration and teamwork in health care for patients, organizations, and team members.	Does not describe the benefits of effective collaboration and teamwork in health care for patients, organizations, and team members.	Describes the benefits of effective collaboration and teamwork in health care for patients, organizations, or team members (or two of these) but not all three.	Describes the benefits of effective collaboration and teamwork in health care for patients, organizations, and team members.	Describes the benefits of effective collaboration and teamwork in health care for patients, organizations, and team members and considers the consequences of ineffective collaboration and teamwork.
  Describe the characteristics and concepts required for effective interdisciplinary collaboration.	Does not describe the characteristics and concepts required for effective interdisciplinary collaboration.	Lists the characteristics and concepts required for effective interdisciplinary collaboration.	Describes the characteristics and concepts required for effective interdisciplinary collaboration.	Describes the characteristics and concepts required for effective interdisciplinary collaboration and explains how each contributes to more effective collaboration.
  Describe barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration.	Does not describe barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration.	Identifies barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration.	Describes barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration.	Describes barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration and considers possible causes for the barriers.
  Identify evidence-based strategies to overcome barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration.	Does not identify evidence-based strategies to overcome barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration.	Identifies strategies to overcome barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration but does not provide supporting evidence.	Identifies evidence-based strategies to overcome barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration.	Identifies evidence-based strategies to overcome barriers to effective interdisciplinary collaboration and suggests methods for implementing the strategies.
  Write content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Does not write content clearly, logically, or with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes with errors in clarity, logic, grammar, punctuation, or mechanics.	Writes content clearly and logically, with correct use of grammar, punctuation, and mechanics.	Writes clearly and logically, with correct use of spelling, grammar, punctuation, and mechanics; uses relevant evidence to support a central idea.
  Correctly format paper, citations, and references using current APA style.	Does not correctly format paper, citations, and references using current APA style.	Uses current APA to format paper, citations, and references but with numerous errors.	Correctly formats paper, citations, and references using current APA style with few errors.	Correctly formats paper, citations, and references, with no errors.

QUESTION 1

1. How did the establishment of national parks affect the railroad industry?

   		It prevented the construction of tracks through crucial regions.
   		It generated a greater demand for rail travel for tourists from the East.
   		It sparked a corrupt relationship between railroad executives and Congress.

QUESTION 2

1. Religious persecution led to the increased immigration of what nationality of people beginning in the 1880s?

   		Irish
   		Russians
   		Scandinavians

3 points

QUESTION 3

1. Which of the following resulted from the opening of large coal deposits in the United States in the late 1800s?

   		A major steel workers’ strike led to a labor shortage.
   		Americans began to move to and build houses in rural areas.
   		Steam replaced water as the nation’s leading source of energy.

3 points

QUESTION 4

1. What was an immediate result of the widespread use of the Bessemer converter in the U.S. steel industry?

   		The price of steel plummeted, allowing for more metal goods to be made.
   		A demand for higher-skilled professionals in the steel industry was created.
   		Labor needs were reduced, causing unemployment and anger among workers.

3 points

QUESTION 5

1. Which book documented the poverty resulting from urbanization in late nineteenth-century New York?

   		The Jungle
   		The Shame of the Cities
   		How the Other Half Lives

3 points

QUESTION 6

1. The Second Industrial Revolution that followed the Civil War was characterized by which of the following?

   		rampant consumerism
   		mass production of goods
   		a consumer-driven economy

3 points

QUESTION 7

1. What did the method of manufacturing known as the American system rely upon?

   		the division of labor
   		the use of the production line
   		the making of interchangeable parts

3 points

QUESTION 8

1. In what way did the use of new types of machinery negatively impact industry in the United States?

   		Machines were expensive to purchase and install, leading to unexpected expenses and debt.
   		Machines did the work of many workers, decreasing labor needs and leading to unemployment.
   		Machines were often operated by workers who did not know how to use them, leading to more injuries.

3 points

QUESTION 9

1. What was the most common reason immigrants came to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century?

   		religious and political freedom
   		greater economic opportunities
   		to escape from famine or plague

3 points

QUESTION 10

1. Which event was most crucial in steam becoming the leading energy source in the United States by the year 1900?

   		a series of large-scale strikes by coal miners
   		the discovery and opening of large coal deposits
   		the building of new dams across major rivers in the West

Scenario : (1000 Words)  
The Peak Sawmill Limited (Peak) operates a timber sawmill in a large regional town. It sources its raw material (pine logs) from a number of local growers and from its own plantations. Logs are transported on large trucks that are weighed in on the company’s weighbridge and weighed out after dropping their loads in the storage area. Logs are then debarked and sawn to size in the cutting area of the mill. The various logs are then sent to other areas of the sawmill depending on what they will be used for.  
You are a senior on the audit. In the planning stage of the audit, you perform analytical procedures. In the current audit period, the average number of days to pay creditors has declined significantly from the average recorded over the past three financial years.  
Your investigation reveals that log suppliers represent more than 90 per cent of the value of accounts payable. As an internal control, details of the goods received notes are matched against the supplier’s invoice. The accuracy of the invoice is checked, after which the invoice is authorised for payment by the mill accountant. Any discrepancy between what the supplier’s invoice amount should be and the actual amount charged by the supplier is communicated to the supplier by way of a pre-numbered ‘request for credit’ form. This form provides reasons for the differences and the amount requested to be credited to the company by the supplier.  
The correct amount of the invoice is entered into the accounts payable accounting system and the supplier’s monthly statement is reconciled to the accounts payable balance per the creditors’ ledger at month end. The differences are mostly attributable to:  
? unprocessed invoices due to pricing differences  
? timing differences in the recorded date of a payment made  
? amounts requested for credit  
? settlement discounts disallowed.  
Cathy Vernon, the company’s financial controller, informs you that due to the increase in the price of timber, new contracts with suppliers have been negotiated over the past year. The accounts payable personnel have complained that management is too slow in informing them about the effective dates of the implementation of the contracts and the revised prices. A brief inspection of the accounts payable reconciliations for five of the biggest suppliers indicates that many invoices are being held back due to the lack of correct pricing.  
Required  
(a) List two key assertions at risk in relation to accounts payable.  
(b) Provide your justification for each assertion.  
(c) For each assertion, outline one substantive test of detail to obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence. 

Your Supply Chain Manager has assigned you the responsibility of developing a new Supplier Evaluation process for your company. Your company has experienced an unfavorable trend in low productivity as a result of component availability, re-working of product, and increased inventory levels of nonconforming material. Your company cannot seem to effectively measure supplier performance because it doesn’t know which metrics to implement that will drive the right changes.

To make matters even more challenging, your company is working to become ISO9001 certified. ISO9001:2008 requires supplier evaluation and data analyses, so this needs to be considered when developing the Supplier Evaluation process.

Identify the top ten supplier performance criteria that you want to use in the evaluation process.

Create a Supplier Evaluation Template that includes the key criteria data that you want to analyze.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word proposal that includes:

• Purpose of a Supplier Evaluation process
• Example of template with evaluation criteria
• Implementation plan: include who is responsible for collecting data and how you will determine which suppliers will be measured.
• Supplier communication plan to inform selected suppliers of this new process
• Explain how data will be used to drive supplier performance improvements.

Format the paper according to APA standards.

The policy cycle approach provides lawmakers with a pathway for developing a policy and guiding it through the institutions of the U.S. government. The cycle starts with identification of a targeted problem and ultimately ends with a specific course of action. Along the way, the outcomes of a policy are subjected to various levels of review, evaluation, and revisions that result in a continual loop. In essence, the policy cycle is a series of interlocking steps that facilitates a dialogue between the main stakeholders. As a health care administrator, it’s important to have a working knowledge of the process and how the process ultimately leads to implementation of health care laws that eventually will impact what you do.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper that explains the policy process. Your paper should include the following:

• Explain the various stages and the key components associated with each stage in the policy process.
  • Discuss formulation, legislation, implementation, evaluation, analysis, and revision.
  • Identify who the main stakeholders are for each stage in the policy process.

Cite at least 3 reputable references. Reputable references include trade or industry publications; government or agency websites; scholarly works; your textbook, Health Policymaking in the United States (6th ed.); or other sources of similar quality.

Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.