What is the importance of collaboration in your future role as a nurse educator in your chosen practice environment?

NUR665 Nursing Education Practicum Week 10

Collaboration is a tool that improves thinking processes and the end work product.

What is the importance of collaboration in your future role as a nurse educator in your chosen practice environment? Who are potential stakeholders involved in your future interprofessional collaborations and define their roles?

Interprofessional Collaboration

Healthcare has faced a vast number of challenges in delivery of quality care over the past 50 years. The population is older, more diverse, medically complex with a higher prevalence of chronic disease requiring multiple specialty providers, a greater reliance on technology and innovation, and uncoordinated delivery systems.

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Healthcare has also shifted towards delivering care to individuals with vast healthcare disparities (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2003a). Collaborative practice can improve the delivery of care through a concerted effort from all members of the healthcare team and leaders through the organization.

In response to these challenges, collaborative practice environments are indispensable to improving safety and patient care indicators. Collaborative practice has been found to reduce the rate of complications and errors, reduce length of stay, and lower mortality rates. Collaboration also leads to reduce conflict among staff and reduced turnover. Additionally, collaborative practice strengthens health systems, improves family health, improves infectious disease, assists with humanitarian efforts, and improved response to epidemics and noncommunicable disease (World Health Organization [WHO], 2010).

Collaboration has become an essential component to implementing health promotion and disease prevention/management (Humphreys et al., 2012; Odum & Whaley-Connell, 2012). Due to the high rates of medical errors over the past several decades, interprofessional collaboration has emerged as a pragmatic intervention step that can reduce errors and improve care (Interprofessional Education Collaborative [IPEC], 2016)

Nurses and others healthcare professionals need to work together in order to address challenges that impede progress on improving safety and quality care. The IOM (2015) states, “No single profession, working alone, can meet the complex needs of patients and communities. Nurses should continue to develop skills and competencies in leadership and innovation and collaborate with other professionals in health care delivery and health system redesign” (p. 3).