Collaboration and Nursing Staff

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The paper evaluates the effects intersectoral collaboration have on nursing retention programs in general and on Canadian nursing staff in particular. The paper discusses how collaborative initiatives have been shown to improve nursing retention rates many times as well as improving the ability of all practitioners to deliver healthcare services more effectively and efficiently. The paper discusses how nurses are going to remain in short supply in the foreseeable future and the Canadian healthcare system is going to need to use all the tools in its management repertoire to meet these shortfalls. The paper concludes that intersectoral collaboration, based on an improved sense of interdisciplinary collaboration, was shown to be a viable approach to improving the delivery of healthcare services today.

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Introduction
Review and Discussion
Conclusion

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"Today, there are a number of frameworks and concepts available to describe the working relationships between medicine and nursing. According to Coombs (2004), "At present, the most frequently cited concept in health care policy and literature is that of 'collaboration,' meaning 'to labor together': although alternative definitions are offered that imply a willingness to co-operate with one's enemy" (p. 11). For the purposes of this study, though, collaboration assumes the more relevant definition of being "non-hierarchical in nature and a cooperative venture based on shared power and authority. It assumes power based on a knowledge base or expertise as opposed to power shared on role or function" (Coombs, 2004, p. 11). A more popular term, "interdisciplinary," is also frequently used to describe a level of collaboration requiring joint development of a plan of care with healthcare professionals pooling their expertise."

Sample of Sources Used:

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• Leathard, A. (2003). Interprofessional collaboration: From policy to practice in health and social care. New York: Brunner-Routledge.

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