Collaboration In Patient's Care

You made several excellent points on how collaboration is vital in the patient’s care and how it can be difficult to collaborate with other disciplines. I agree with you that it is difficult to see not working with other disciplines. In the emergency room similar to in the unit that you work in, we are constantly collaborating with other disciplines to provide the patient with the highest quality of care possible. Providing the patient whether in the emergency room or on the cardiac step down unit that you currently work on with collaborative care will improve the patient’s outcome and in turn provide the patient with the highest quality of care (Bosch & Mansell, 2015). Collaboration between different disciplines will decrease the likelihood

of adverse events happening to the patient (Bosch & Mansell, 2015). Collaboration is vital when providing any patient care in the health care field.
Challenges are common when trying to collaborate with other disciplines when taking care of patients. I have also experiences when the doctors believe that they know better just because they are doctors. This makes it difficult to collaborate with them and to be able to provide the highest quality of care possible. This is where the nurse needs to advocate for what is best for the patient. Similar to the physicians turning of the bed alarm with fall risk patients, there has been times I have noted when someone leaves the patient’s room whether it is physicians or other members of the health care team they sometimes leave the side rail down on a patient that is a fall risk. I agree with you that communication amongst all people on the patient’s health care team is essential in providing the patient with the highest quality of care possible. Collaboration is vital when providing care to any patient whether it is hospital based or in a primary care doctors office with the highest quality of care.