Nursing Collaboration

Paper Summary:

The paper presents a case study of a 23-year-old girl in the labor and delivery unit suffering contractions every five minutes and of 36 weeks gestation. The paper looks at the multidisciplinary group of professionals who will need to play a role in ensuring quality of care and examines the contribution of the labor and delivery (LD) nurse, obstetric (OB) resident and physician, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) nurse and of the patient and her family. The paper discusses the nursing diagnoses that will be used to plan and implement patient care and notes the collaborative problems and potential barriers to a successful collaboration between differing disciplines.

Outline:
Case Study
Collaborative Practice
Nursing Diagnoses and Collaborative Problems
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Nursing has evolved over the decades to allow for nurses to redefine its role for patient quality of care. Collaborative practice has become an integral part of nursing. According to Kuntz (2005, p.143), collaborative practice "supplies an assembly for nurses and other health care professionals to exchange expertise and intensify thoughts or messages." Every person within the various professions of the healthcare field operates in union by distributing knowledge concerning achieving high-quality patient care (Blais, Hayes, Koutzier & Erb, 2006). Patient care is provided by a group of individuals who combine their own individual specialties in order to ensure patient care quality and satisfaction."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Arford, P. H. (2005). Nurse-Physician Communication: An Organizational Accountability. Nursing Economics$, 23(2), 72-76.
• Blais, K .K., Erb, G., Hayes, J. S., & Kozier, B. (2006). The nurse as colleague and collaborator. Professional Nursing Practice: Concepts and Perspectives (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
• Ignatavicius, D. D., & Workman, M. L. (2002). Medical-Surgical Nursing: Critical Thinking for Collaborative Care (4th ed.). Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company.
• Johnson, M., Bulechek, G., McCloskey-Dochterman, J., Maas, M., & Moorhead, S. (2001). Nursing Diagnoses, Outcomes, and Interventions. St. Louis, MO: Mosby, Inc.
• Kuntz, K. R. (2005). Collaborative Practice: Life care plans provide a pathway to improved outcomes. Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing, 10(3), 143-145.

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