Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video
NURS-FPX4010 Assessment 1: Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video
Capella University | BSN FlexPath | NURS-FPX4010 — Leading People, Processes, and Organizations in Interprofessional Practice | 2025–2026
Assessment Overview
Record a Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video in which you reflect on a personal interdisciplinary collaboration experience, identify how poor collaboration affects human and financial resources, and apply best-practice leadership and collaboration strategies from the nursing literature.
Interprofessional collaboration is one of the defining demands of contemporary health care. Nurses at every level are expected to lead teams across disciplinary boundaries, manage shared resources effectively, and communicate in ways that keep patient care goals at the center of the work. In this first assessment, you will draw on a real situation from your own professional experience — or from the Villa Health scenario provided in course resources — to examine what collaboration actually looks like in practice, where it succeeds, where it breaks down, and what the literature says about doing it better.
Course Competencies Addressed
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies through the assessment scoring guide criteria:
- Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health.
- Identify how ineffective collaboration results in the mismanagement of human and financial resources, supporting your analysis with evidence from the literature.
- Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration improves outcomes.
- Reflect on a real interdisciplinary collaboration experience, identifying both successful and unsuccessful elements in relation to desired patient or organizational outcomes.
- Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies, supported by at least one author from the literature, that would help a team achieve its goals and work more effectively together.
- Competency 3: Apply leadership strategies to encourage collaboration and improve organizational outcomes.
- Identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals, citing at least one author.
- Competency 4: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, professional, and consistent with expectations for nursing and health care professionals.
- Communicate information clearly and professionally, in a manner consistent with the expectations of the nursing and health care community.
Assessment Instructions
For this assessment, create a Kaltura video in which you reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience from your own nursing practice or from the Villa Health scenario provided in the course activity resources. Your video must address all four areas below in a structured, evidence-supported presentation.
Preparation
- Access the Vila Health: Collaboration for Change activity in the course room. Review the scenario carefully if you are using it as the basis for your reflection. Alternatively, you may draw on a real interprofessional experience from your own professional practice.
- Research best-practice strategies for interprofessional collaboration and nursing leadership using the Capella University Library. Locate at least two scholarly or peer-reviewed sources — one addressing leadership strategies, and one addressing interdisciplinary collaboration — published within the past five years.
- Prepare a written script or detailed outline before recording. This will help you stay focused, ensure all criteria are addressed, and give you the reference list you will submit alongside the video.
Required Video Content — Four Topic Areas
Your recorded video must cover all four of the following topic areas. Each area corresponds to a scoring criterion. Cite supporting evidence from the literature within your video narrative for each area.
Topic Area 1 — Reflect on an Interdisciplinary Collaboration Experience
- Describe a specific interprofessional or interdisciplinary collaboration experience from your nursing practice or from the course scenario.
- Reflect on the ways in which the collaboration was successful in achieving desired patient or organizational outcomes.
- Reflect on the ways in which the collaboration was unsuccessful or fell short of desired outcomes.
- Be specific. Describe the team members involved, the setting, the goal, and the outcome.
Topic Area 2 — Identify How Poor Collaboration Affects Human and Financial Resources
- Identify specific ways in which poor collaboration within the experience you described resulted — or could result — in inefficient management of human resources (e.g., staffing strain, turnover, burnout, skill underutilization).
- Identify specific ways in which poor collaboration resulted — or could result — in inefficient management of financial resources (e.g., duplicated services, extended length of stay, preventable readmissions, increased cost of errors).
- Cite supporting evidence from at least one peer-reviewed scholarly source to substantiate your analysis of these resource impacts.
Topic Area 3 — Identify Best-Practice Leadership Strategies from the Literature
- Identify at least one best-practice leadership strategy from the nursing or health care literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals.
- Explain how the strategy would apply to the collaboration situation you described — be concrete, not general.
- Cite at least one author from the peer-reviewed literature when identifying this strategy.
Topic Area 4 — Identify Best-Practice Interprofessional Collaboration Strategies
- Identify at least one best-practice interprofessional collaboration strategy from the literature that would help the team work together more effectively and achieve its shared goals.
- Explain how this strategy directly addresses the specific gaps or failures you identified in Topic Area 1.
- Cite at least one author from the peer-reviewed literature when identifying this strategy.
Additional Requirements
- Recording tool: Use Kaltura, the video recording tool embedded in your Capella course room. Do not submit external video file links or recordings from platforms other than Kaltura unless explicitly permitted by your instructor.
- Script or transcript: While not always formally required, it is strongly recommended that you prepare a written script to guide your video. Submit your reference list — formatted in APA 7th edition — as a separate document alongside the video submission.
- References: Cite at least two current peer-reviewed scholarly sources (published within the past five years) within your video narrative. At minimum, one reference must support your leadership strategy and one must support your collaboration strategy.
- APA format: Follow APA 7th edition conventions for in-video citations (spoken author-date format) and for the reference list submitted with the recording.
- Professionalism: Dress, setting, and delivery should reflect professional nursing standards. Maintain appropriate academic tone throughout.
- Clarity and organization: Structure your video to clearly address each of the four topic areas. Use transitions between topics so the viewer can follow your reflection’s logic.
- Attempts: Two submission attempts are available. Review scoring guide feedback carefully before resubmitting.
Suggested Video Structure
The following outline is recommended but not mandatory:
- Introduction — state your name, course, and the purpose of the video (30–60 seconds)
- Topic Area 1 — Collaboration Experience Reflection (describe situation, team, goals, successes, failures)
- Topic Area 2 — Impact of Poor Collaboration on Human and Financial Resources (with literature support)
- Topic Area 3 — Best-Practice Leadership Strategies (with at least one cited author)
- Topic Area 4 — Best-Practice Collaboration Strategies (with at least one cited author)
- Conclusion — brief summary of key insights and implications for your practice
- Reference list — read or state the two or more sources you cited, or include them in your submitted reference document
Assessment Scoring Guide (Rubric)
Scored on a four-level scale: Distinguished | Proficient | Basic | Non-Performance. A rating of Proficient or above on all criteria is required for competency demonstration in Capella FlexPath.
| Criterion | Distinguished | Proficient | Basic | Non-Performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criterion 1: Reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes. (Competency 2) | Reflects on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience with exceptional depth and specificity, clearly articulating how the experience was both successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes. Contextual detail is rich, and the reflection demonstrates critical self-awareness and an ability to draw broader practice-relevant insights from the experience. | Reflects on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, noting specific ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired patient or organizational outcomes. The situation, team composition, and outcomes are clearly described. | Reflects on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, but the reflection is vague, general, or incomplete. Success and failure are mentioned without adequate specificity, or the connection to desired outcomes is unclear. | Does not reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, or does not address how the experience was successful or unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes. |
| Criterion 2: Identify how poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources, citing supporting evidence from the literature. (Competency 1) | Identifies specific, well-analyzed ways in which poor collaboration results in inefficient management of both human and financial resources, with compelling and relevant evidence from the literature that meaningfully strengthens the argument. The connection between collaboration failures and resource waste is clearly and convincingly established. | Identifies how poor collaboration results in inefficient management of human and financial resources, citing supporting evidence from at least one peer-reviewed scholarly source. The analysis is accurate and grounded in the described experience. | Identifies how poor collaboration affects human or financial resources but does so without sufficient depth, does not address both resource types, or cites sources that are not peer-reviewed or not from the scholarly literature. | Does not identify how poor collaboration results in inefficient management of human and financial resources, or does not support the analysis with evidence from the literature. |
| Criterion 3: Identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals, citing at least one author. (Competency 3) | Identifies one or more clearly articulated, evidence-based leadership strategies from the literature and explains in specific, practical terms how each strategy would improve the identified team’s ability to achieve its goals. The source is current, credible, and well-integrated into the argument. The analysis reflects advanced understanding of leadership in interprofessional healthcare contexts. | Identifies best-practice leadership strategies from the literature that would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals and cites at least one author from the peer-reviewed literature. The strategies are relevant to the experience described. | Identifies leadership strategies but does so without tying them specifically to the experience described, without citing a scholarly author, or by citing sources that are not from the peer-reviewed literature. | Does not identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature, or does not cite an author from the literature. |
| Criterion 4: Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team achieve its goals, citing at least one author. (Competency 2) | Identifies one or more evidence-based interdisciplinary collaboration strategies with nuanced, specific application to the situation described. Demonstrates a clear understanding of how the strategies address the identified collaboration gaps, and integrates at least one current peer-reviewed source with skill and precision. The argument is sophisticated and directly actionable. | Identifies best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team achieve its goals and work more effectively together, citing at least one author from the peer-reviewed literature. The strategies are clearly connected to the collaboration experience described. | Identifies interprofessional collaboration strategies but fails to connect them to the experience described, does not cite a scholarly author, or draws on sources that are not peer-reviewed. | Does not identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies, or does not cite an author from the literature. |
| Criterion 5: Communicate information clearly and professionally in a manner consistent with expectations of nursing and health care professionals. (Competency 4) | Communicates with exceptional clarity, professionalism, and precision. Delivery is organized, confident, and engaging. The video is structured to guide the viewer logically through all four topic areas. Language is consistently appropriate for a nursing and health care professional audience. The recording reflects thorough preparation. | Communicates information clearly and professionally in a manner consistent with expectations for nursing and health care professionals. The video is organized, easy to follow, and addresses all required topic areas. Tone, language, and delivery reflect appropriate academic and professional standards. | Communicates adequately but with lapses in professionalism, clarity, or organization. The video may be difficult to follow, omit transitions between topics, or use language that does not fully meet the expectations of a health care professional audience. | Does not communicate information clearly or professionally. The video is disorganized, unprepared, or fails to meet minimum standards for nursing and health care professional communication. |
Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video
Interprofessional collaboration in health care is far more complex than simply placing professionals from different disciplines in the same room; it requires intentional communication structures, clearly defined roles, and shared accountability for patient outcomes. In one notable clinical experience, a breakdown in communication between the nursing staff and the pharmacy team during a post-surgical medication reconciliation process led to a near-miss adverse drug event — a situation that could have been prevented had a structured handoff protocol been in place. The human resource cost of that failure was significant: two nurses spent additional unscheduled hours investigating the discrepancy, a pharmacist was called back after hours, and the patient’s discharge was delayed by a full day, generating avoidable hospital costs. Gilles et al. (2020) found that financial barriers to collaboration within integrated care programs consistently reduced the benefits of interprofessional teamwork, confirming that the economic consequences of poor collaboration are well documented and preventable through targeted leadership intervention. Transformational leadership — characterized by inspiring a shared vision, fostering individual accountability, and modeling collaborative behavior — has been identified as a particularly effective approach for improving interdisciplinary team performance in high-pressure clinical environments, and implementing regular structured communication tools such as SBAR within team briefings represents one actionable, evidence-supported strategy for bridging the gap between disciplines in day-to-day clinical work.
Scholarly References
The following peer-reviewed sources are relevant to the content of this assessment. Use the Capella Library databases (CINAHL, PubMed, MEDLINE) to identify additional sources specific to your chosen collaboration scenario and leadership strategy.
Gilles, I., Filliettaz, S. S., Berchtold, P. and Peytremann-Bridevaux, I. (2020) ‘Financial barriers decrease benefits of interprofessional collaboration within integrated care programs: Results of a nationwide survey’, International Journal of Integrated Care, 20(1), p. 10. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.4649
MacLeod, C. E., Brady, D. R. and Maynard, S. P. (2022) ‘Measuring the effect of simulation experience on perceived self-efficacy for interprofessional collaboration among undergraduate nursing and social work students’, Journal of Interprofessional Care, 36(1), pp. 102–110. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2020.1860583
Morley, L. and Cashell, A. (2017) ‘Collaboration in health care’, Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, 48(2), pp. 207–216. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmir.2017.02.071
Thistlethwaite, J. E., Forman, D., Matthews, L. R., Rogers, G. D., Steketee, C. and Yassine, T. (2024) ‘Competencies and frameworks in interprofessional education: A worldwide mapping exercise’, Journal of Interprofessional Care, 38(1), pp. 1–11. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2014.893292
Zajac, S., Woods, A., Tannenbaum, S., Salas, E. and Holladay, C. L. (2021) ‘Overcoming challenges to teamwork in healthcare: A team effectiveness framework and evidence-based guidance’, Frontiers in Communication, 6, p. 606445. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.606445