Importance Of Teamwork And Collaboration In Nursing

Importance of Teamwork and Collaboration in Future Nursing Massachusetts (MA) Department of Higher Education, in coordination with nurses from Massachusetts nursing practice and education settings, developed the framework for professional nursing called the Nurse of the Future (NOF) Nursing Core Competencies (NCC) (Chamberlain college of nursing, 2015). This model includes the following competencies; Patient-centered care, Professionalism, Informatics and technology, Evidence-based practice (EBP) Leadership, Systems-based practice, Safety, Communication, Teamwork and collaboration and Quality improvement. The purpose of this paper is to emphasis on the importance of one of the important core competencies in future nursing.

Teamwork and collaboration

173, para 2). Working together as a team, nurses and other health care providers tend to communicate and collaborate effectively thus complementing and compensating each other’s strengths and weakness to endeavor even in the most adverse times.

Communication principles

Healthy working relationships require meaningful conversations. Hood (2014) describe, use of principles of communication; presence, empathy, respect, genuineness, listening, advocacy, inquiry and silence facilitate successful collaboration by establishing healthy and helping relationship between team members and the patient and their family members.

Use of meaningful communication establishes healthy, helping relationships with clients and their significant others.

An article published by Saunders, 2015 in Journal of Trauma Nursing concluded, “ Using multidisciplinary collaboration and coordination of activities can help ensure that mobility in trauma care becomes a routine

Call out is another strategy for communicating critical information during emergency situation, which helps team members to anticipate next steps with a designated person e.g., leader of a Code Blue Team. Read back verification of verbal or telephone orders are the example of check back strategy, which we always use to ensure accurate information. Handoff includes giving self-introduction, patient, his/her assessment, situation, safety background, and actions taken and to be taken, timing (level of urgency), ownership (responsible team members/ team, including patient/ family), and the ‘Next’ means the plan of care (As cited in Hood, 2014, p. 105).

Conclusion

Best possible care for patients can and will be achieved when nurses and other health care team members work together and prioritize meaningful conversation among each other. Dissatisfaction, errors and unfair treatment can be avoided when there’s an effective collaboration among health care team. Working collaboratively with each other improves the nursing care by bringing out the best outcome of each discipline. Thus, in my stand among various competencies, team work and collaboration is the most necessary and vital qualities needed for future nurse to provide the best quality care