4. PURPOSES
• Provides client directed and client centered
care using a multidisciplinary, integrated,
participative framework.
• Enhance continuity across the continuum of
care
• Improves clients and families satisfaction with
care.
5. Contd..
• Promote mutual respect, communication and
understanding
• Provides opportunities to address and solve
system related issues and problems.
• Develop interdependent relationships and
understanding among providers and clients.
11. COLLABORATIVE MODELS WITHIN
NURSING
• NURSING INSTITUTION COLLABORATIVE
RELATIONSHIP
• COLLABORATION AT THE LEVEL OF CLINICAL
PRACTICE
• COLLABORATION WITH NURSE EDUCATORS
• COLLABORATION WITH NURSE RESEARCHER
• NURSE COMMUNITY COLLABORATION
12. BENEFITS OF
COLLABORATION• For patients
• Improves care by increasing co-ordination of services,
especially for complex problems
• Integrates health care for a wide range of problems and
needs
• Empowers patients as active partners in care.
• Can serve patients of diverse cultural backgrounds
• Use time efficiently
• For health care professionals
• Increases professional satisfaction
• Facilitates shift of emphasis from acute, episodic care to
long term preventive care
• Enables the practitioner to learn new skills and approaches
• Encourages innovation
• Allows providers to focus on individual areas of expertise
13. Contd..
• For educators and students
• Offers multiple health care approaches to study
• Fosters appreciation and understanding of other
disciplines
• Models stratergies for future practice
• Promote student participation
• Challenges norms and values of each discipline
• For health care delivery system
• Holds potential for more efficient delivery of care
• Maximizes resources and facilities
• Decreases burden on acute care facilities as a result of
increased preventive care
• Facilitate continous quality improvement efforts