CONCEPT OF COLLABORATION
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According to Baggs and Schmitt (1988), collaboration involves coordination of individual actions, cooperation in planning and working together, and sharing of goals, planning, problem-solving, decision-making, and responsibility.
Why important??
* The effectiveness of team work and the sharing of expertise and responsibility leads to care that is greater than the sum of its parts. Collaboration fosters synergy that patients will notice.
Who involves?
*Health care today involves many more professionals. We may deal with different professionals for each patient, each shift and each day he or she works four basic tenets that must exist together for any interprofessional innovation to be successful and long lasting.
Important element?
* Effective communication and collaboration begins with mutual respect for another professional’s knowledge and clinical competence. The team also needs to understand the context of the patient population.
The most important person?
- leader, to control and built condusive and friendly environment between workers.
How to strengthen it?
* Training in collaboration is also essential to enabling it. Staff needs to be trained in areas such as group skills, negotiation, time management, and understanding of group dynamics. Professionals also need to develop skills of self awareness, advocacy and the awareness of nonverbal cues or body language.
conclusion?
* Collaboration may be very difficult to negotiate effectively because of differences in disciplinary socialization. Cross-disciplinary communication can be complex for a myriad of reasons, but it also can be professionally rewarding and beneficial to patients’ (and patients’ companions’) experiences. (Abramson & Mizrahi,
1996, p. 271)