Title: Interprofessional Collaboration in Nursing & Healthcare | Gebauer
Headings: How Nurses Can Improve Interprofessional Collaboration
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How Nurses Can Improve Interprofessional Collaboration
Encourage Participation in Other Departments’ Training
Promote Multidisciplinary Rounds
Keep the Focus on the Patient

Content: Interprofessional Collaboration in Nursing & Healthcare | Gebauer
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How Nurses Can Improve Interprofessional Collaboration
By: Bethany Nock | On: October 6, 2016
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Providing the best hospital experience for patients requires coordination and communication between all providers involved in a patient’s care. This cooperative approach is referred to as interprofessional collaboration, and its goal is to help doctors and nurses work together to administer the highest quality care. Interprofessional collaboration fosters trust and respect between all healthcare providers and encourages the practice of treating nurses as equals with physicians. In this post, we’ll discuss how nurses can collaborate across disciplines to ensure each healthcare professional’s expertise and experience are applied in the most effective way possible. Encourage Participation in Other Departments’ Training
While every healthcare professional attends training sessions specific to their discipline, nurses should make an effort to sit in on other departments’ classes so they can have more insight into other roles at the hospital. This can also help nurses better empathize with the challenges their colleagues in other disciplines face, which can strengthen bonds between providers. Being able to assess a situation with multiple viewpoints allows nurses to make better care decisions. Promote Multidisciplinary Rounds
Multidisciplinary rounds offer a simple way to improve communication between departments.