Professional Support and Collaboration

Purpose

The purpose of this discussion is to identify and evaluate individuals who provided professional support and mentoring throughout your DNP program. These individuals may include your preceptor, mentor, course faculty, or others who assisted you in finding the right direction in your course work, practice change project, and practicum experience.

Instructions

1. Identify 2-3 individuals who provided professional support, mentoring, or who helped guide you throughout your DNP degree program and/or during your DNP practice change project design, development, implementation, and evaluation.
2. Evaluate the influence that intraprofessional or interprofessional collaboration with the individuals you identified had on your success in the DNP degree program.

(Preceptor- DNP, APRN)

(Mentor- Psychiatrist at the clinic)

Collogues- PMHNP / course faculty

Notes :During the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of any practice change or quality improvement project, it is vital to have a network of professionals who can provide support and guidance throughout the project management process. Intraprofessional and interprofessional collaboration is not a new concept to nurses as nurses have collaborated with patients, families, physicians, ancillary services, community services, and other entities throughout the history of the profession. It is through collaboration that diverse ideas and perspectives can be explored to provide a more holistic and equitable approach to practice problems.

Collaboration benefits

• Enhances effective team communication
• Increases patient satisfaction
• Promotes engagement of all disciplines
• Substantiates patient and family values
• Reduces fragmentation of care
• Demonstrates leadership commitment to a culture of teamwork
• Promotes health equity and equality