Nurs FPX 8006 Assessment 3 Shared Values to Support Innovation using (DEI)

Developing Shared Values to Support Innovation using

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)

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NURS FPX8006: Nursing Research and Practice

Capella University

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Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) contribute to healthcare innovation by developing interprofessional teamwork patterns. The common good relying on the DEI principles allows respect, eradicating bias, and innovativeness, which allows the representatives of various fields to contribute to the safety of patients.

Falls among patients can be referred to as one of the most pressing safety concerns in hospital facilities, which is the leading source of injuries, longer hospital stays, and costs. As Albasha et al. (2023) report, falls are mentioned in the category of the most prevalent hospital-acquired events that result in high morbidity and mortality on an international scale. The podcast will focus on the mechanism of how the interprofessional collaboration, premised on the principles of DEI, will facilitate the creation of new methods of fall prevention.

The subject of discussion will be the problem of disaggregation of silos between physicians and nurses, as well as other allied health professionals, and this will facilitate the space to carry a dialogue and share knowledge on diversity. The importance of diversity of opinion in decision-making and fair delivery of care will also be mentioned. The theoretical models will bring evidence-based frameworks to the picture to describe the case of the innovation growing into practice. Finally, the illustrations of the new research will show how the creation of teams, inclusiveness, and shared accountability should lead to innovative and sustainable solutions that will improve patient safety.

Developing Interprofessional Team Approaches for Innovative Outcomes

To formulate interprofessional team strategies to prevent falls, there is a need to shatter the siloes of hierarchies to have an equal role in the contribution of all disciplines. As the evidence indicates, the cooperation between the physicians, nurses, and other allied health professionals can be more effective and safe due to the different experience that allows bringing the efforts together on the fall prevention interventions (Shaw et al., 2022). The interactions between different disciplines in terms of determining the risk factors lead to the resulting interventions covering more patient needs and doing it more precisely.

Physicians can reduce medical conditions that influence the risk of falls, for example, and nurses can also be engaged in frontline reporting concerning the mobility of the patient. The recommendations that are provided by pharmacists and rehabilitation specialists concerning functional status and medication safety give people an opportunity to develop a wide selection of prevention strategies to respond to a wide variety of risk determinants (Al-Yateem et al., 2023). The input distribution helps to distribute equity in decision-making, as every discipline is accorded equal relevance. The identified way of breaking professional silos can be linked to the innovative patient-centered approaches, which result in a better outcome in fall prevention.

Interprofessional groups can be discussed inclusively and thus can lead to the improvement of fall prevention plans. Researchers stress that the presence of conflicting arguments in the collaboration process triggers innovation and leads to long-term intervention (Harrison et al., 2021). The nurses, in their turn, may offer interpreter services in response to the communication barriers among non-English patients, and the doctors may stress the use of standardized assessment of fall risks. This allows the incorporation of different perspectives, which will result in fair and evidence-based solutions (Al-Yateem et al., 2023).

The inflection points in collaboration demonstrate the way in which the varying points of view challenge assumptions and introduce new strategies that reduce harm. Through integrating cultural awareness and inclusion into the care plans, interprofessional groups enhance organizational integrity and reduce the risks of falls. The collaborative methods of decision-making, according to the principles of DEI, ensure that the innovative ideas transform into practical and evidence-based practices that improve patient safety.

Theoretical Concepts Supporting Interprofessional Fall Prevention

Application of the Lewin change theory gives a method of leading interprofessional teams to embrace fall prevention practices that foster diversity, fairness, and inclusion. The adoption of the structured change models is observed to be useful in balancing the conception of innovation with the practice of improvements (Harrison et al., 2021). The unfreezing phase is characterized by nurse leaders observing the significance of dismantling the old hierarchies that influence communication, whereby various opinions are employed to develop prevention plans.

The change step will involve standardization of fall risk assessment and interpreter services to address the cultural and linguistic barriers with the help of the team-wide cooperation (Shaw et al., 2022). The refreezing level guarantees the new culture of inclusion as an institutional policy practice to adopt in the institution, as well as part of staff training, which enhances the fairness of patient safety. The integration of the two, including the empirical evidence in addition to interventions on the basis of the theory of Lewin, allows for making teams innovative and sustainable. The theoretical approach identified above explains why the involvement of all parties in the planning and execution process is the most important factor in the issue of effective fall prevention, according to the expert opinion.

From Innovation to Evidence-Based Practice in Fall Prevention

The multidisciplinary collaborations based on breaking the professional barriers and reconceptualizing the patient safety paradigm are always the basis of new solutions to the prevention of falls. Albasha et al. (2023) mentioned that prevention rounds with staff help to identify hazards in real time and increase the responsibility of teams, whereas Alvarado et al. (2023) stated that multifactorial risk assessment can devise more accurate interventions when the strategies are prepared depending on the needs of the person.

The difference in the focus is that Albasha et al. (2023) showed the efficiency with the help of team-based vigilance, and Alvarado et al. (2023) focused on individualized care that is performed with the help of internal assessment. These two systems are united by the idea of cooperation that changes the one-hand safety practice into an extensive prevention system. Combining preventive rounds with personalized assessments makes new approaches receptive and more specific as they demonstrate how diverse approaches support each other and minimize the number of falls.

The creative practice modernization to the standard of evidence depends on the integration of the theoretical frameworks and empirical facts. Guo et al. (2022) demonstrated that patient engagement models enhanced the implementation of fall prevention measures in controlled interventions, but Heng et al. (2020) found that patient education initiatives were not effective in the long-term unless there is a clear distribution of roles among the providers. The comparison shows that organizational clarity in support of evidence-based structures promotes innovation.

Guo et al. (2022) clinically justified their findings by showing the success of patient engagement models, but Heng et al. (2020) demonstrated the presence of systemic obstacles by revealing the inability of education programs to be effective unless the role of providers was defined. Both studies identify a common phenomenon that innovation turns into evidence-based practice when interprofessional collaboration and recurrent engagement with patients can run structural interventions. This kind of integration helps to make fall prevention in the healthcare system sustainable and feasible.

Conclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion help to enhance the interprofessional cooperation of healthcare through the shared values that are cultivated. Another example of creating new strategies can be fall prevention when the teams break silos and openly discuss the new strategies. The evidence and theory synthesis propose that the creative interventions would be developed into evidence-based and sustainable practice. Adequacy and equitable treatment are ensured by the existence of industrial responsiveness and homogeneous instruments. Lastly, innovation is launched as a permanent alteration in patient safety that will be made in collaboration with advancing DEI outcomes.

Related assessment for this class: NURS FPX 8006 Assessment 1 and NURS FPX 8006 Assessment 2