Library and Academic Services: Leadership, Management and Collaborative Practice: Collaboration

Introduction

Collaboration

Collaboration is a core competency of the professional nurse at both the interprofessional and intraprofessional levels. It is essential that nurses are effective members of high-functioning groups or teams in any health setting. Collaborative care and group methodologies and resources are explored.

Collaboration topics:

Intra and Interprofessional practice resources,
Groups methodology,
Team functioning,
Patient-centred and relational practice,
Communication

Library Resources

Creating the Health Care Team of the Future by Sioban Nelson; Maria Tassone
Location: ebook
Publication Date: 2014
One way to significantly improve the delivery of health care is to teach the health professionals who provide care to work together, to communicate with each other across professional boundaries, and to start to think and act like a team that has the patient at its center. The team-based care movement is at the heart of major changes in medical education and will become an element in the new accreditation standards. Through its Centre for Interprofessional Education,...
Understanding Teamwork in Health Care by Gordon Mosser; James W. Begun
Location: RA 971 .M638 2014 (Located at NDC)
This important guide focuses on the core skills necessary to effectively implement teamwork in a complex hospital or primary care setting. The book's mission is to make often-overlooked perspectives about teamwork more widely known and used. No matter what your prior level of team involvement may be, this is the one resource that will help you adeptly participate in, lead, or manage teams. Unlike other texts that rely heavily on theory and healthcare policy, this indispensable reference offers a realistic, practical look at the challenges and many opportunities
The Interprofessional Health Care Team by Weiss, Donna ; Tilin, Felice ; Morgan, Marlene J.
Location: RA 971 .W457 2018 (Also available in Print)
Publication Date: 2016
The Interprofessional Health Care Team: Leadership and Development, Second Edition explores theoretical concepts of leadership in an interdisciplinary health care environment and provides practical examples of these concepts from the perspective of health care scholars, scientists, faculty, and health administration professionals.

Collaboration Links

A model for giving feedback
FEEDBACK MUST BE:
1. DESCRIPTIVE NOT EVALUATIVE. When you describe your own reaction to
someone’s behavior you reduce the chances of the other person reacting
defensively. You also increase the chances ...
CIHC National Competency Framework (2010) [PDF]
The Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaboration (CIHC) National Interprofessional Competency Framework describes the competencies required for effective interprofessional collaboration. Six competency domains highlight the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that together shape the judgments that are essential for interprofessional collaborative practice.
CIHC National Competency Framework Quick Reference Guide [PDF]
The Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaboration (CIHC) National Interprofessional Competency Framework describes the competencies required for effective interprofessional collaboration. Six competency domains highlight the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that together shape the judgments that are essential for interprofessional collaborative practice.
CNA Position Statement: Interprofessional Collaboration 2020 (CNA) [PDF]
Canadian Nurses Association position statement on Interprofessional Collaboration
Nursing in a team environment (CRNM)
The following documents aim to promote understanding of the concept of scope of practice, how scopes of practice differ among the three nursing professions and the factors to consider when making decisions about the appropriate nurse for the job.
Collaborative Care (WRHA)
Collaborative Care is when several health providers work together with patients/residents/clients, their families, caregivers and communities to provide high quality care. It involves engaging any health provider whose expertise can help improve the patient/resident/client’s health. When health providers collaborate, new possibilities exist that were not there before.
Shakhman, L. M., Al Omari, O., Arulappan, J., & Wynaden, D. (2020). Interprofessional Education and Collaboration: Strategies for Implementation. Oman Medical Journal, 35(4), e160–e160.
Interprofessional education (IPE) is an integral educational outlook that is necessary to make sure that the graduates of an allied health care education are able to be valuable members or leaders of collaborative healthcare practices. Literature and resources are available about various models that have been used by different institutions to integrate IPE as part of their curriculum.
Schmutz, J. B., Meier, L. L., & Manser, T. (2019). How effective is teamwork really? The relationship between teamwork and performance in healthcare teams: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open, 9(9
To investigate the relationship between teamwork and clinical performance and potential moderating variables of this relationship. Systematic review and meta-analysis. PubMed was searched in June 2018 without a limit on the date of publication. Additional literature was selected through a manual...

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