Collaborative Practice

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This paper discusses collaborative practice between patients and healthcare personnel. It shows how collaborative practice is used to enhance patient care and improve the outcome of the patient condition. It examines different combinations of collaboration from collaboration between the physician and the patient themselves, to a complex multidisciplinary team and discusses how not every patient will require the same level of collaboration, although every patient receives some type of collaborative care. An example of collabrative practice is provided through a case study of a woman with complications in childbirth.

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"At this stage there can be barriers to successful collaboration. If language difficulties exist for the nurse or the patient then communication is affected. It is necessary to understand and integrate the cultural practices of the patient if possible. The patient and the physician may disagree on what the plan of care should be. The physician may want to admit the patient, yet the patient requests to sign out against medical advice. The patient may have requests, i.e. wishes to be induced which the doctor declines to do because there is no medical indication. Increasing communication at this point may facilitate successful collaboration."

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