Instructions
Congratulations, you have assembled your leadership team, and they are excited to participate in this meeting with you. Because your leadership team represents various roles—including the chief nursing officer (CNO), who is responsible for the clinical aspect of patient care delivery; the CFO, who is responsible for leveraging funds to keep abreast of trends in healthcare expenditures; and the chief technology officer (CTO), who is in charge of the protection of patient personal health information—this activity represents a simulated interprofessional meeting.
Working in a sector as complicated and complex as healthcare requires a type of leadership known as relational leadership, where individuals with professional roles and expertise can be maximized when their work is coordinated with other professionals in an atmosphere of trust, where communication is collaborative, and where there is an appreciation for each other’s roles and responsibilities. Interprofessional teams function best when each member views their role from the leader’s perspective, which fosters high-level strategic decision-making and action-taking, consensus building, and accountability sharing (Nelson, Tassone, & Hodges, (2014).
References:
Nelson, S., Tassone, M., & Hodges, B. D. (2014). Structuring for success. In Creating the health care team of the future: The Toronto model for interprofessional education and practice (pp. 38-41). Ithaca, NY: IRL Press.  
Key individuals on your leadership team have been identified to address the issues facing your organization. You, as the CEO will facilitate a simulated strategy meeting with the CFO, CNO, and the CTO. In your simulated interprofessional meeting, you will review the Issue Brief Working Template from Week 3, which you also included in your simulated memorandum to your team in this week’s first assignment.
For this simulated meeting, you will look at the issues from multiple perspectives including the financial implications on the organization from the CFO’s perspective, the delivery of safe and quality clinical healthcare from the CNO’s perspective, the safeguards needed to protect patient health information from the perspective of the CTO, and the overall perspective that you have as the CEO. Your assignment is to describe how you would conduct your meeting to engage these senior leaders in an iterative process to narrow down to the top 10 issues to the final three issues on which you and your team will now focus. You will also report on what challenges and conflicts which may occur during the consensus-building dialogue.
The Medicare reimbursement issue is already affecting your hospital’s financial situation and has surfaced to be of grave concern. Since this issue has the most potential to disrupt hospital operations and the delivery of quality healthcare, you have made the decision and must inform your leadership team that the Medicare reimbursement issue must be one of the three issues addressed.
As the outcome of this simulated meeting and for this assignment, you will a) create the meeting minutes (sample shown below) reflecting the discussion during the simulated meeting, and b) revise your Issue Brief Working Template to reflect only the three issues that your team has chosen. Your team concurs with your projection about the need to address the reimbursement issue and has made this their top priority. Your revised Issue Brief Working Template will have this issue as the number one priority.
Sample meeting minutes are shown here.
Table 4. Sample meeting minutes
Hospital X Leadership Team Meeting
Agenda/Minutes


Attendees:

Item #1: Review of the top 10 issues and trends affecting our organization
Discussion:
Item #2: Strategies to address the prioritized issues
Discussion:
Action:
Item #3: Next steps
Discussion:
Action:
Respectfully submitted,

Length: This assignment will have a title page, the minutes from your simulated team meeting, your revised Issues Brief Working Template from Week 3, which now reflects the top three issues—with the U.S. reimbursement mechanisms as the top issue, and a reference page.