Nurse Collaboration Summary

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Summary of the nursing issue

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Presentation of the issue pros and cons

The purpose of the article’s study was to describe the professional values held by nurses and their attitudes toward physician-nurse collaboration and to explore the relationship between nurses’ characteristics and professional values and their attitudes nurse-physician collaboration. Values are held by nurses throughout their career from student to practitioner, but many barriers exist that prevent nurses from enacting their values. The nurses attitudes toward collaboration were significantly different in those with inter professional education experience and based on educational level.

Effective collaboration within nursing and with other health care professionals to achieve higher quality outcomes in an increasingly interdependent health care delivery system continues to grow in importance. Collaboration is a complex partnership. It is a process that occurs over time. It is also an outcome, a synthesis of different perspectives, an integrative solution. It is important to remember that conflict is a natural and expected part of collaboration. Conflict provides an opportunity to deepen agreement. The strategic use of conflict resolution skills and goodwill power can be effective in enhancing decision quality and team commitment. This article has offered ten lessons to enhance collaboration. Focusing on the value of …show more content…

Expectations of nurses concerning their roles and responsibilities and the expectations of a physician for a nurse may differ. The literature has recognized that issues between nurse-physician collaboration has increased, hence investigative methods for collaboration have occurred. Efforts are being put in place to bring medical, administrative, and nursing personnel together to ensure that the patient receives care in the most qualitative

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