This Assignment is specific to a particular pediatric primary care practice and is mostly based upon student observation and experience. This should be a formal paper and should be 3-5 pages in length (excluding title page and reference page). You must use APA formatting including header, title page, content, in-text citations, and reference page.

For full points the following must be addressed adequately in your paper:

• From your observations and experiences in your pediatric clinical rotation, provide an example of multidisciplinary collaboration.
• From your observations and experiences in your pediatric clinical rotation, provide an example of how multidisciplinary and family collaboration affects patient outcomes.
• Discuss how you have been able to promote communication and collaboration among health care professionals, patients, and family/caregivers.
• Discuss a particular case where collaboration among health care professionals and family members affected patient/family satisfaction.
• In your clinical practicum, what are some barriers that you have observed to collaboration among health care professionals, patients, and families?

Your writing Assignment should:

• • follow the conventions of Standard English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.)
  • be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
  • display superior content, organization, style, and mechanics; and
  • use APA 6th edition formatting.

Helpful tip: It is recommended that you keep all of your course work in a virtual (or physical, or both) portfolio for easy access in clinicals as well as future pediatric encounters.

Assignment Requirements

Before finalizing your work, you should:

• be sure to read the Assignment description carefully (as displayed above);
• consult the Grading Rubric (under Course Documents) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and
• utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize errors.

Submit your Assignment to the Unit 6 Assignment Dropbox before midnight on the last day of the unit.