The purpose of this activity is to engage in an interdisciplinary team meeting that is addressing a public health
need within your community.
Preparation
1. Read Schoon et al. (2019) Chapter 8
2. Identify an interdisciplinary team [or collaborative meeting] in your community that addresses a public health
need in your community (i.e. smoking, alcohol, obesity, wellness, homeless, domestic violence, youth/senior
issue, etc.). Please note that this interdisciplinary/collaborative meeting should NOT be a patient specific
(case management, discharge planning, etc.) meeting in a healthcare setting (i.e. hospital, clinic).
Instructions/Grading Criteria
1. Contact collaborative member to request attendance at a meeting
2. Attend 1 or more meetings of this collaborative.
3. Obtain a copy of the meeting agenda or take notes at the meeting (point deductions if not submitted).
4. Interview a collaborative member (ideally the team chair or someone in a leadership position) and/or gather
information from the collaborative’s website or other resources. Include a statement in your paper if you are
unable to interview someone.
5. Your paper should include the following:
Collaboration Overview: (1) Name of Interdisciplinary team/Collaborative; (2) name of contact person
within collaborative; (3) length in existence; (4) mission and goals of collaborative; (5) how does this
collaborative promote its mission to the community; and (6) who are the members (partners)? Not
individual names but entities they represent (i.e. nurses, police officers, community members, etc.)
Public Health Issues: What are the public health issues addressed by this collaborative? Identify the
target population for this collaborative (who is affected by this public health issue with your community).
Collaborative Planning: Do they use evidence-based, credible sources for program planning? What data
has been collected by the collaborative to assist in planning activities/interventions? What additional data
do they/you feel would be useful? What are the barriers to collecting this data?
Partners: How does this team promote buy-in from partners? Identify the buy-in needed from partners for
this interdisciplinary team/collaborative to be successful.
Collaborative Outcomes: Identify past accomplishments of the team.
Reflection:
• As a community member, do you feel this collaboration is well received by the community? How do
you know this to be true?
• Identify a partner that you believe could enhance the work of this collaboration.
• Identify additional ways that the mission and goals of this collaboration could be promoted in the
community.
• Identify the role nursing does/could bring to this collaboration?
Assignment Submission
Submit an APA formatted paper
Please use the above bolded assignment criteria for paper headers.
You must also submit collaborative agenda (or if not available submit your meeting notes)
