Persistent isolationist or collaborator? The nurse’s role in interprofessional collaborative practice

Abstract

The values within health organizations need to be underpinned by collaborative interprofessional patient-centred practice. To accomplish this goal, administrators and managers must support assessment of employees and visiting physicians as to their conformance with agency established expectations for such practice.

Teamwork in nursing: restricted to nursing professionals or an interprofessional collaboration?

“…It was considered as the means in building the other elements of collaborative practice. This result is in agreement with studies in which communication is considered critical for negotiation and the construction of professional bonds and trust (19,23,25) . In both conceptions of teamwork, as an interprofessional practice in nursing and that which is restricted to the nursing staff, communicative action, based on dialogue, allows professionals to develop collaboration.…”

“…This reinforces the understanding of its central role of mediation in relation to other professions in the health area (2,19) . The results of this study also indicated that nurses were a part of a team of several healthcare professionals and their contribution to patient-centered care, while at the same time they overlooked basic services, as observed in the account that prioritized the catheter insertion when providing for the patient's needs.…”

“…The interviewees highlighted the lack of integration between nurses and nursing technicians and the absence of nursing technicians in the decisionmaking processes, which impaired co-responsibility. The results do not show the dynamics of collaborative teams that rely on interaction, respect, bonding and shared decision making processes (19,(23)(24) . By creating opportunities to express subjectivity based on communication, respect and acceptance of differences, it is possible to promote jointdecision making.…”

“…In the last decade, teamwork started to be defined as an interprofessional collaborative practice, in terms of a formalized team, with the collaboration of professionals from different areas for patient-centered care (19)(20) . Most interviewees cited this type of work organization in this recent definition, with nursing professionals being one of the groups comprising the interprofessional team, but they also mentioned the conception of teamwork restricted to nursing professionals only.…”

Adaptation to Turkish of Nurse – Nurse Collaboration Scale

“…They should always work in collaboration with the other health professionals during the patient care. (Orchard 2010). When Turkish and world literature was reviewed, most of them evaluate doctor-nurse collaboration.…”