Nurses role in Establishing

Collaborative Relationship in the

Delivery of Health Care Programs
and Services
 Defining Collaboration
 When it comes to defining collaboration definitions are often
tailored to a particular environment’’
Some definitions in the literature indicate that collaboration
Involves multiple people interacting to achieve a common goal.
Consists of social inputs and task inputs.
-Is ‘‘an active and ongoing partnership between professionals and institutions
with diverse backgrounds and mandates who work together to provide
services’’
- Is a process that involves:
- cooperation
- communication
- negotiation
- trust
- respect
- and understanding to build a synergistic alliance that maximizes the
contributions of each participant’’
Involves constructing both a collective action to address complex patient
needs and an interprofessional team relationship involving respect and trust
Nurses collaborate with patients,
significant others, families, other
nurses and other healthcare
providers to solve patient care
problems and to provide the
optimal quality level of care to the
patient or group of patients .
 Which is an important role for a nurse in the health care
delivery system?
 Nurses as Patient Advocates

The time nurses spend with patients also provides

them with unique insights into their patients' wants and
needs, behaviors, health habits, and concerns, thus
making them important advocates in their care.
 Nurses collaborate with nurse colleagues and other health care
professionals.
 They frequently collaborate about client care but may also be involved, for
example, in collaborating on bioethical issues, on legislation, on health-
related research, and with professional organizations.
 To fulfill a collaborative role, nurses need to assume accountability and
increased authority in practice areas.
 WITH NURSE COLLEAGUES
 Shares personal expertise with other nurses and elicits the expertise of
others to ensure quality client care.
 Develops a sense of trust and mutual respect with peers that recognizes
their unique contributions.
 WITH OTHER HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
 Recognizes the contribution that each member of the inter professional
team can make by virtue of his or her expertise and view of the situation.
 Listens to each individual’s views.
 Shares health care responsibilities in exploring options, setting goals, and
making decisions with clients and families.
 Participates in collaborative interprofessional research to increase knowledge
of a clinical problem or situation.
 WITH PROFESSIONAL NURSING ORGANIZATIONS
 Seeks opportunities to collaborate with and within professional
organizations.
 Serves on committees in state and national nursing organizations or
specialty groups.
 Supports professional organizations in political action to create
solutions for professional and health care concerns.
 WITH LEGISLATORS
 Offers expert opinions on legislative initiatives related to health care.
 Collaborates with other health care providers and consumers on
health care legislation to best serve the needs of the public.
 How is collaboration used in healthcare?
 Collaboration in healthcare:
 helps to prevent medication errors,
 improve the patient experience
- and deliver better patient outcomes —
all of which can reduce healthcare costs.
It also helps hospitals save money by shoring up
workflow redundancies and operational inefficiencies.
 What does collaborative mean in healthcare?
 Collaboration in health care is defined as health care
professionals assuming complementary roles and
cooperatively working together, sharing responsibility for
problem-solving and making decisions to formulate and carry out
plans for patient care.
 Nurses' ability to understand and assess a patient's clinical,
emotional, and social needs can help them to call upon
available resources and create a patient-focused care
plan.
 As nurses are offering direct patient care around the clock,
they have a unique and focused view of how that care should
be provided.
 The 11 areas of nursing responsibility.
1. Safe quality nursing care
2. Management of Resources and Environment
3. Health Education
4. Legal Responsibility
5. Ethico-moral Responsibility
6. Personal and Professional Development
7. Quality improvement
8. Research
9. Records Management
10. Communication
11. Collaboration and Teamwork
 What are the four fundamental responsibilities of
nurses?
 Nurses have four fundamental responsibilities:
 to promote health,
 to prevent illness,
 to restore health
 and to alleviate suffering.
 The need for nursing is universal.
 Inherent in nursing is a respect for human rights,
including cultural rights, the right to life and choice, to
dignity and to be treated with respect.
Prepared by-
Bernardita E. Brillon
RN, RM, MAN, Ph.D.
NCM 119