Topic 1 DQ 2 Based on your experience, explain how systems thinking helps leaders to build strong interprofessional and organizational relationships. Discuss some system thinking tools nursing leaders can apply to increase interprofessional collaboration to benefit patient outcomes or organizational initiatives. Make sure to incorporate the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies in your response.

Topic 1 DQ 2 Based on your experience, explain how systems thinking helps leaders to build strong interprofessional and organizational relationships. Discuss some system thinking tools nursing leaders can apply to increase interprofessional collaboration to benefit patient outcomes or organizational initiatives. Make sure to incorporate the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) competencies in your response.

In my experience at my facility systems thinking helps leaders to build strong interprofessional and organization relationships by working with employees in different areas within the facility and knowing what each person is responsible for, their job duties. One system thinking tool that we use at our facility SSI Taskforce Committee. This task force has all departments involved to help identify areas that may need improvement to help reduce our infection rate and to make sure that our patients have the best possible outcomes after surgery. Tanya Henry (2019) states “Systems thinking helps provide better patient-centered care, foster problem-solving and encourages questioning”. And this is true because when all the departments come together and brainstorm each individual has a different point of view and this helps to look at the bigger picture in the end.

Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) has four competencies which are values and ethics, roles and responsibilities for collaborative practice, interprofessional communication and teamwork and team-based care as mentioned in an article by Lance Baily (2021). I see that when we were working on our recertification for our spine program the Joint Commission looked at these areas. When preparing my presentation, I included our mission and values, what were the roles of the participants in the spine program, how do we get the information to our team members and how do we all work together to provide the best evidence base practices to our patients to make sure that they are safe and have the best outcomes possible.

References

Baily, L. (2021, October 12). IPEC core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice. HealthySimulation.com. https://www.healthysimulation.com/34551/ipec-core-competencies-2016/

Henry, T. A. (2019, September 11). Why you need to be a systems thinker in health care. American Medical Association. https://www.ama-assn.org/education/accelerating-change-medical-education/why-you-need-be-systems-thinker-health-care