Summary: Interprofessional Collaborative Practice

NURS 6565 - Main Question Post: Week 5: Discussion – Interprofessional Collaborative Practice and Advanced Practice Nurses

Interprofessional collaborative practice demarcated as the process that comprise communication and decision-making dexterities that facilitate the influence of grouped knowledge. According to Bankston and Glazer (2013), interprofessional practice been well known for decades, and healthcare frontrunners have illustrated collaboration amongst providers as indispensable for efficacious and valuable for healthcare delivery. Interprofessional practice in nursing generally occurs when healthcare practitioners collaborate with professionals amidst their own areas of the profession, their external profession, patients and their

Tuckerno’s case study depicts an issue of lack of interprofessional practice; there was indeed a communication malfunction between the providers, and lack of mutual respect. The APN should have shadowed the internist treatment modality except if there was an imminent safety issue related to the patient’s health. An interaction with the internist when he comes to work would have facilitated a mutual discussion on the patient’s concerns and treatment plan. I do think the internist blunt statement to the patient on his dislike related to the care received from the NP is indeed cold. This positively illustrates lack of respect on his part, the ultimate collaborative approach would be for both providers to have mutual respect for each other, learn to communicate, and understand that teamwork necessitated to bestow the utmost safe and quality care to the patients that visit the healthcare practice. According to Yee, Boukus, Cross, and Samula (2013), presently there is scarcity of physicians in family practice and the nurse practitioners will assist to fill this crevice thus the need to effectual physician and nurse practitioner (NP) interprofessional collaboration is imperative to meet the healthcare needs of community at large. According to Hain and Fleck (2014); Bankston and Glazer (2013), while their training differ scope of practice must come to play, working together for the patient’s healthcare needs with positive collaboration of mutual

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