This document discusses collaboration in nursing. It begins by introducing some of the complex health issues faced by the nursing profession that require collaboration. These include increased chronic illness and an aging population. The document then defines collaboration and discusses its benefits, such as improved patient outcomes. Several types of collaboration are described, including interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and interprofessional collaboration. Key competencies for nurses to be effective collaborators are communication skills, mutual respect, and decision making. Principles of successful collaboration include defined responsibilities, mutual accountability, and respect among partners. The conclusion states the healthcare system is moving toward more collaborative efforts where providers and clients partner in care.

1. COLLABORATION
ISSUES AND MODELS
PRESENTED BY – SAPNA THAKUR
MSC COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

2. INTRODUCTION
+ Nursing Profession is faced with lot of
complex health issues due to
technological and medical achievements,
Increased Elderly Population ,Increased
Patients with chronic illness

3. Effects of Collaboration
(Abramson & Mizrahi 1996
 Improved patient outcomes
 Reduced length of stay
 Cost savings
 Increased nursing job satisfaction and retention Improved
teamwork

4. MEANING
+ The roots of the word collaboration, namely co-,
and laborer, combine in Latin to mean “work
together.” That means the interaction among
two or more individuals, which can encompass
a variety of actions such as communication,
information sharing, coordination, cooperation,
problem solving, and negotiation

5. DEFINITION
+ Collaboration is the most formal inter
organizational relationship involving
shared authority and responsibility for
planning, implementation, and evaluation
of a joint effort (Horde, 1986)
+

6. + Mattessich, Murray and Monsey
(2001) define collaboration as a mutually
beneficial and well-defined relationship
entered into by two or more
organizations to achieve common goals /

7. NEED FOR COLLABORATION
+ Decreasing gap
+ For increasing practical skills
+ To combine theoretical knowledge
with sufficient technical training

8. COMPETENCIES REQUIRED FOR
NURSE AS A COLLABORATOR
+ Communication skills
+ Mutual respect and trust
+ Giving and receiving feedbacks
+ Decision making
+ Conflict management

9. TYPES OF
COLLABORATION
Interdisciplinary
Multidisciplinary
Transdisciplinary
Inter professional
collaboration

10. (1) Interdisciplinary
collaboration-
+ it is the term used to indicate the
combining of two or more disciplines,
professions, departments, or the like,
usually in regard to practice ,research,
education and theory.

11. Multidisciplinary
collaboration-
+ refers to independent work and
decision making, such as when
disciplines work side-by-side on a
problem.

12. Transdisciplinary collaboration-
+ efforts involve multiple disciplines sharing together
their knowledge and skills across traditional
disciplinary boundaries in accomplishing tasks or
goals.
+ Trans-disiciplinary efforts effects reflects a process
by which individuals work together to develop a
shared conceptual framework that integrates and
extends discipline specific theories, concepts, and
methods to address a common problems

13. . Interprofessional collaboration-
+ . Interprofessional collaboration-has been described
as involving “ interaction of two or more disciplines
involving professionals who work together , with
intention, mutual respect and commitments for the
sake of a more adequate response to a human
problem”

14. COLLABORATIVE ISSUES WITHIN
NURSING
+ The nurse and the superintendent .
+ The nurse and the head nurse
/Departmental Nurse .
+ The nurse and fellow nurse.

15. COLLABORATIVE ISSUES OUTSIDE
NURSING
+ Nurse and the physician
+ Nurse and the client
+ Nurse and the health care professionals
+ Nurse and pharmacist
+ Nurse and nutritionist
Nurse and the professional nursing
organizations

16. PRINCIPLES OF COLLABORATION
1.Asserts, attitudes and values that each
potential partner brings
2. Accountability to each other
3.Agreements to be mutual and documented
4. Acknowledgement of each other
contribution
5. Achievements monitored

17. R-
+ Reciprocal benefits
Respect for each partners
Responsibilities-well defined and agreed upon
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18. • T-
+ Time and timing
+Tact and talent
+ Trust

19. CONCLUSION
+ COLLABORATION INVOLVE SOME SHARED
FUNCTIONS AND COMMON FOCUS ON THE SAME
MISSION .
+ RECENTLY HOWEVER THE HEALTH CARE
SYSTEM HAS MOVE TOWARDS MORE
COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS AND INITIATIVES IN
WHICH PROVIDERS AND CLIENT BECOME
PATNER IN CARE