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Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video guide

A 5-10 minute recorded video reflection on a real interprofessional collaboration experience, plus recommendations for the Vila Health: Collaboration for Change scenario, covering resource waste from poor collaboration, best-practice leadership strategies and best-practice collaboration strategies, with at least three cited sources and an APA reference list.

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Last reviewed · August 12, 2026

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How should ten minutes be split between your story and Vila Health?

The assessment has two subjects and the scoring guide marks both, which is where most submissions come apart. The first is your own collaboration experience, examined for what went well and what did not. The second is the Vila Health scenario, a different organisation with a different failure, for which you are asked to make recommendations. It is easy to spend eight of your ten minutes on your own story because it is the part you already know, and then to give Vila Health ninety seconds of general advice. The scoring guide does not weight them that way. Plan the runtime before you record: roughly a third on your experience, a third on Vila Health, and a third on the two best-practice strategies, each of which has to be attributed to a named author. Writing those proportions on a card before you start recording is the cheapest thing you can do for this assessment.

The criterion that is skipped most often is the financial half of one sentence. You are asked to identify how poor collaboration results in inefficient management of human and financial resources, supported by evidence from the literature. Human resources come naturally: burnout, turnover, wasted clinician time, duplicated effort. Financial resources are where reflections go quiet, because it feels like guesswork. It is not. The literature attaches costs to the things you are already describing — nurse turnover has a replacement cost per vacancy, duplicated diagnostics have a unit price, an extended length of stay has a daily rate, a preventable adverse event has a documented cost range. Naming one such figure, with a citation, converts a complaint into an argument, and it is the single highest-value sentence in the whole recording. One defensible figure, clearly attributed, does more than a paragraph of adjectives about how costly poor teamwork is.

The format is a video, not a paper read aloud, and the assessment tells you so by pointing at an example of citing sources in an oral presentation. That means the citation happens in speech — "as Smith and colleagues found in 2019" — with the full reference in the accompanying APA list. Two more format consequences follow. A script written for the page runs long and sounds recited, so write in speaking sentences and time yourself against the ten-minute ceiling before you record. And because the criteria include being easily audible and using proper grammar, a single clean take with acceptable audio scores better than a polished script delivered badly. Use the gap-analysis frame the brief supplies — what happened, what went well, what did not, what should have happened — as your spoken structure, so the listener can hear the sections rather than having to infer them from a continuous monologue.

Likely learning objectives

Inferred from the brief — check these against your own rubric.

  • 01
    Reflect on a collaboration experience by naming both what worked and what did not.
  • 02
    Attach a cited financial figure to a described collaboration failure.
  • 03
    Transfer lessons from personal experience into recommendations for a different organisation.
  • 04
    Attribute a leadership strategy and a collaboration strategy to named authors.
  • 05
    Cite sources orally in a recorded presentation rather than in written text.
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For this assessment you will create a 5-10 minute video reflection on an experience in which you collaborated interprofessionally, as well as a brief discussion of an interprofessional collaboration scenario and how it could have been better approached. Interprofessional collaboration is a critical aspect of a nurse’s work. Through interprofessional collaboration, practitioners and patients share information and consider each other’s perspectives to better understand and address the many factors that contribute to health and well-being (Sullivan et al., 2015). Essentially, by collaborating, health care practitioners and patients can have better health outcomes. Nurses, who are often at the frontlines of interacting with various groups and records, are full partners in this approach to health care. Reflection is a key part of building interprofessional competence, as it allows you to look critically at experiences and actions through specific lenses. From the standpoint of interprofessional collaboration, reflection can help you consider potential reasons for and causes of people\’s actions and behaviors (Saunders et al., 2016). It also can provide opportunities to examine the roles team members adopted in a given situation as well as how the team could have worked more effectively. As you begin to prepare this assessment you are encouraged to complete the What is Reflective Practice? activity. The activity consists of five questions that will allow you the opportunity to practice self-reflection. The information gained from completing this formative will help with your success on the Collaboration and Leadership Reflection Video assessment. Completing formatives is also a way to demonstrate course engagement Note: The Example Kaltura Reflection demonstrates how to cite sources appropriately in an oral presentation/video. The Example Kaltura Reflection video is not a reflection on the Vila Health activity. Your reflection assessment will focus on both your professional experience and the Vila Health activity as described in the scenario. Demonstration of Proficiency Competency 1: Explain strategies for managing human and financial resources to promote organizational health. Identify how poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources supported by evidence from the literature. Competency 2: Explain how interdisciplinary collaboration can be used to achieve desired patient and systems outcomes. Reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes. Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team to achieve its goals and work more effectively together. Competency 4: Explain how change management theories and leadership strategies can enable interdisciplinary teams to achieve specific organizational goals. Identify best-practice leadership strategies from the literature, which would improve an interdisciplinary team’s ability to achieve its goals. Competency 5: Apply professional, scholarly, evidence-based communication strategies to impact patient, interdisciplinary team, and systems outcomes. Communicate in a professional manner that is easily audible and uses proper grammar. Format reference list in current APA style. Professional Context This assessment will help you to become a reflective practitioner. By considering your own successes and shortcomings in interprofessional collaboration, you will increase awareness of your problem-solving abilities. You will create a video of your reflections, including a discussion of best practices of interprofessional collaboration and leadership strategies, cited in the literature. Scenario As part of an initiative to build effective collaboration at your Vila Health site, where you are a nurse, you have been asked to reflect on a project or experience in which you collaborated interprofessionally and examine what happened during the collaboration, identifying positive aspects and areas for improvement. You have also been asked to review a series of events that took place at another Vila Health location and research interprofessional collaboration best practices and use the lessons learned from your experiences to make recommendations for improving interprofessional collaboration among their team. Your task is to create a 5–10 minute video reflection with suggestions for the Vila Health team that can be shared with leadership as well as Vila Health colleagues at your site. Note: If you require the use of assistive technology or alternative communication methods to participate in this activity, please contact DisabilityServices@Capella.edu to request accommodations. If, for some reason, you are unable to record a video, please contact your faculty member as soon as possible to explore options for completing the assessment. Instructions Using Kaltura, record a 5–10 minute video reflection on an interprofessional collaboration experience from your personal practice, proposing suggestions on how to improve the collaboration presented in the Vila Health: Collaboration for Change activity. Be sure that your assessment addresses the following criteria. Please study the scoring guide carefully so you will know what is needed for a distinguished score: Reflect on an interdisciplinary collaboration experience, noting ways in which it was successful and unsuccessful in achieving desired outcomes. Identify how poor collaboration can result in inefficient management of human and financial resources, citing supporting evidence from the literature. 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 from the literature. Identify best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategies to help a team achieve its goals and work together, citing the work of at least one author. Communicate in a professional manner, is easily audible, and uses proper grammar. Format reference list in current APA style. You will need to relate an experience that you have had collaborating on a project. This could be at your current or former place of practice, or another relevant project that will enable you to address the requirements. In addition to describing your experience, you should explain aspects of the collaboration that helped the team make progress toward relevant goals or outcomes, as well as aspects of the collaboration that could have been improved. A simplified gap-analysis approach may be useful: What happened? What went well? What did not go well? What should have happened? After your personal reflection, examine the scenario in the Vila Health activity and discuss the ways in which the interdisciplinary team did not collaborate effectively and the negative implications for the human and financial resources of the interdisciplinary team and the organization as a whole. Building on this investigation, identify at least one leadership best practice or strategy that you believe would improve the team’s ability to achieve their goals. Be sure to identify the strategy and its source or author and provide a brief rationale for your choice of strategy. Additionally, identify at least one interdisciplinary collaboration best practice or strategy to help the team achieve its goals and work more effectively together. Again, identify the strategy, its source, and reasons why you think it will be effective. You are encouraged to integrate lessons learned from your self-reflection to support and enrich your discussion of the Vila Health activity. You are required to submit an APA-formatted reference list for any sources that you cited specifically in your video or used to inform your presentation. The Example Kaltura Reflection will show you how to cite scholarly sources in the context of an oral presentation. Refer to the Campus tutorial Using Kaltura [PDF] as needed to record and upload your reflection. Additional Requirements References: Cite at least 3 professional or scholarly sources of evidence to support the assertions you make in your video. Include additional properly cited references as necessary to support your statements.
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Turn the brief into deliverables

  1. 01
    A 5-10 minute video reflection recorded in Kaltura.
  2. 02
    A reflection on an interprofessional collaboration experience, noting successful and unsuccessful aspects.
  3. 03
    An account of how poor collaboration wastes human and financial resources, with literature support.
  4. 04
    At least one best-practice leadership strategy from the literature, attributed to an author.
  5. 05
    At least one best-practice interdisciplinary collaboration strategy, attributed to an author.
  6. 06
    Recommendations for the Vila Health: Collaboration for Change scenario.
  7. 07
    An APA reference list citing at least three professional or scholarly sources.
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A spoken structure for the reflection and the recommendations

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Open with the experience, briefly

Set the scene in under a minute: setting, who was involved, what the collaboration was for.

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Gap analysis of your experience

What happened, what went well, what did not, what should have happened — spoken as four distinct beats.

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The resource argument

Connect the failure to wasted human resources and to a cited financial cost.

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Vila Health: what went wrong

Identify the collaboration failures in the scenario and their implications for that organisation's resources.

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Two attributed strategies

One leadership best practice and one collaboration best practice, each named, sourced, and applied to Vila Health.

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Close and record

Summarise the recommendation in two sentences, then rehearse once against the clock before recording.

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Where the cost evidence for poor collaboration is documented

Recommended databases

  • IPEC
  • AHRQ
  • Capella library (CINAHL, Business Source)
  • PubMed

Search sequence

  1. 1.
    Find the cost figure first — it is the hardest element and it shapes which failure you choose to describe.
  2. 2.
    Search for turnover cost, duplicated testing cost or excess length of stay attributable to communication failure.
  3. 3.
    Use the IPEC competencies to name your collaboration strategy in a form the assessor recognises.
  4. 4.
    Use TeamSTEPPS for concrete, citable team tools rather than abstract leadership advice.
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Reference shortlist

These are authoritative starting points, not a ready-made bibliography. A qualified reviewer must confirm that each source fits the assignment and supports the claim beside which it is cited.

Nothing here is cleared for citation until you have read it.

  1. 01

    IPEC Core Competencies

    Interprofessional Education Collaborative · 2023

    The competency language the assessment is built on; use it to name your collaboration strategy in terms the scoring guide recognises.

  2. 02

    TeamSTEPPS 3.0

    Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality · 2024

    Concrete, attributable team tools — huddles, briefs, closed-loop communication — that make a best-practice strategy specific rather than aspirational.

  3. 03

    Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Roles

    StatPearls, NCBI Bookshelf · 2023

    Role boundaries within an interdisciplinary team, useful when explaining why a particular handoff failed in your own experience.

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Review before submission

Common mistakes

  • Spending most of the runtime on your own experience and leaving Vila Health a token minute.
  • Describing the human cost of poor collaboration and never touching the financial cost, which the criterion names explicitly.
  • Reading an essay aloud, which runs over time and sounds recited.
  • Naming a leadership strategy without attributing it to an author, which the criteria require.
  • Reflecting only on what went wrong, when the criterion asks for successful and unsuccessful aspects.
  • Omitting the APA reference list because the deliverable is a video.

Submission checklist

  • The recording is between five and ten minutes.
  • Both your own experience and the Vila Health scenario are addressed substantively.
  • The reflection names successes as well as failures.
  • A financial cost is stated and cited, not just a human one.
  • One leadership strategy and one collaboration strategy are each attributed to a named author.
  • Sources are cited aloud in the recording.
  • An APA reference list with three or more sources accompanies the video.
  • Audio is clear and the delivery is audible throughout.

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