Collaboration In Nursing Care

The nursing field is a very social one, where members constantly work together and communicate to exchange information effectively, all while providing quality care to patients. To excel and strengthen one’s role in the nursing field, one must be adept at teamwork and collaboration. Collaborative nurse-client relationships occur where nurses and clients equally work together to bring about care (Hood, 2014, p. 85). Fewster-Thuente (2015) examines collaboration within the context of nurse-physician interactions where “working together toward a common goal represents collaboration as a basic social process in which groups are formed and harmony is created” (p. 357). Teamwork includes the participation and contribution of each member of the multidisciplinary healthcare team …show more content…
The importance of collaboration in nurse-client relationships to nursing is that it promotes clients to be more inclined to share crucial information and allows nurses to interpret and substantiate such information (Hood, 2014, page 85). What makes collaborative relationships so successful are the principles of communication: presence, empathy, respect, and genuineness (Hood, 2014, p. 85). Collaboration between nurses and physicians is also essential and a lack-thereof can result in errors in patient care. Regarding the study of nurse-physician collaboration at an unspecified Midwestern medical center in the United States, the participants’ responses led to the idea that a respectful environment, where healthcare professionals exhibit general open-mindedness and the ability to heed others’ opinions, is necessary for information to be properly relayed, ideas to develop, and for collaboration to occur (Fewster-Thuente, 2015, p. 358). Collaboration requires the cooperation of nurses, physicians, and clients to provide the best possible patient care and this cooperation is often reflective on how well the healthcare team