Create a 6–8-slide PowerPoint presentation that describes communication barriers within an interdisciplinary team and how those barriers affect patient safety and health care outcomes. Offer a solution in which you recommend evidence-based strategies to improve communication within the team and explain how the strategies benefit the team and patients.

The ability to effectively communicate as part of interdisciplinary collaboration is essential for patient safety and successful health care delivery.

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

• Competency 1: Explain the principles and practices of highly effective interdisciplinary collaboration.       
  • Describe communication barriers that can occur within an interdisciplinary team.
  • Recommend evidence-based strategies to improve communication within an interdisciplinary team.
  • Explain how specific communication strategies benefit both team members and patients.
• Competency 3: Explain the internal and external factors that can affect the health of individuals, families, communities, and populations.       
  • Explain how communication barriers between members of an interdisciplinary team can affect patient safety and health care outcomes.
• Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with the expectations of a nursing professional.       
  • Write content clearly and logically with correct use of grammar, punctuation, APA formatting, and mechanics.

To deepen your understanding, you are encouraged to consider the questions below and discuss them with a fellow learner, a work associate, an interested friend, or a member of your professional community.

• How might communication styles and perceptions influence clinical-practice decisions?
• What types of patient issues might require interdisciplinary collaboration, both within a health care delivery domain and within a community setting?

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.

Write a 350-word article that discusses key stakeholders in the health care sector in which you work. Include the following in your article:

• A brief introduction to the health care sector in which you work
• Identity of key internal stakeholders
• Identity of key external stakeholders
• An evaluation of strategies used to develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Instructions

Reality, Art, and Truth

This 6-8 page essay assignment will be completed in three parts. You may want to use section headers to organize your paper. Remember to explain the theories you reference with supporting citations to the textbook and online lectures in correct APA format.  Use this APA Citation Helper as a convenient reference for properly citing resources.

Part I. The Self

Discuss the avocado idea of the self and explain at least one version of the idea that human beings have a shared essential nature (such as Cartesian rationalism or Greek philosophy). Contrast this account with the artichoke idea of the self (drawing upon existentialism to develop your account) and a discussion of how the modern/avocado and postmodern/artichoke ideas of the self differ. You may use your analysis from the Week 2 assignments to develop your account in Part I. 

Part II. The Avocado Self and Art as Representation

Explain the idea that art is mimesis (Plato and/or Aristotle) and how this is like the avocado idea of the self. Discuss a character/narrator/subject in a work of art (novel, poem, film, graphic novel, short story, television show, song, painting, etc.) who you think captures the avocado/art as mimesis idea that we have an essential, shared human nature and that art reflects this reality for us.

Part III. The Artichoke Self and Art as Transformation

Explain the idea that art is transformative/how artistic creation expresses the unity of subject and object (Nietzsche, Schelling, and/or Heidegger). Discuss how this reflects the artichoke idea of the self. Discuss a character/narrator/subject in a work of art (novel, poem, film, graphic novel, short story, television show, song, painting, etc.) who you think captures the artichoke/post-modern idea of the self and the idea that art creates truth.

Part IV. Art and Philosophy

Finally, reflect upon the relationship between art and philosophy by considering some of the following questions:

1. Are the self and the material world distinct entities, as Descartes thinks? What are some examples of representative art that illustrate the idea that the subject/mind and the object/world/body are distinct? Alternatively, are the self and the world organic unities, as Schelling argues? How might artistic creation express this unity of subject and object?
2. Is art mimesis/representation (as in Platonism and Aristotelian aesthetics) or is it a means of transforming the self and reality? Might it be aspirational, allowing us to achieve catharsis, as Aristotle suggests? Consider, too, how the idea of art as representation is akin to the avocado view while the idea of art as transformative is more like the artichoke view.
3. What is the relationship between art and philosophy? Do you agree with Descartes that logic and critical thinking are the best means of achieving certainty about reality and existence, or is your view more akin to the perspective of Keats, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and/or Heidegger that art is the ultimate expression of truth? How are these views a rejection of the natural standpoint we see adopted by empiricism and rationalism and rejected by phenomenology?
4. Do some kinds of art (music, for example) express the truth more fully than others? How so? How does the idea and purpose of art differ across cultures?