Nurse Collaboration Case Study

Maximizing nurse-physician collaboration holds virtual promise for improving patient care and satisfying work roles. The sole purpose is to help strategies that will facilitate effective nurse-physician relationship.Lindeke, L., Sieckert, A. (January 31, 2005)” Nurse-Physician Workplace Collaboration”. Collaboration is a complex process that requires international knowledge sharing and joint responsibility for patient care. This often only happens with long-term relationships between health professionals. Within long-term relationships, collaboration has a development trajectory that evolves over time as team members leave or join the group and/ or organization change. (LeTourneau, 2004). In these settings there are no second chances to collaborate effectively, and a given interaction may leave lasting positive or negative impressions on those involved or who’s witnessed any …show more content…
Developing emotional maturity, understanding the perspective of others, and avoiding compassion fatigue are self-development behaviors that can enhance interdisciplinary collaboration. Emotional maturity is foundational to effective collaboration. True leadership, according to De Pree (1989) is a matter of character, an art, belief or condition, rather than set of things to do. Nurses and physicians strongly influenced by the attitudes of their educators, the unique jargon of their own disciplines, and their professional cultural norms (Lindeke & Block, 1998). But most importantly is the fact that no experience in school will change behavior if students do not see effective collaboration in clinical practice. Leadership and role modeling are critical during this time. A new culture of collaboration is needed that merges the unique strengths of each discipline to minimize energy wasted on turfism and territoriality (Johnson, Norton, & Wilson,