Week 5 Discussion: Interprofessional Collaboration
Planning for our patients during times of transitions (for example: hospital to home, home to
rehabilitation facility) involves collaboration with a number of healthcare professionals. Please
address the following questions:
How does your facility promote interprofessional collaboration during times of patient
transitions?
What is the role of the nurse in patient transitions?
What gaps can you identify in this process related to quality of care? (If you are not
currently in practice, please use a previous role or clinical experience in your answers.)
Answer:
"Collaboration in nursing is a vital professional relationship skill"(Chamberlain.instructure.com,
2019). In to support successful collaborative relationships hospitals must have a strong
foundation with a fully engaged workforce. The importance of teams, transformational leaders
and strong managers who support the vision of the organization, positive communication and
education and training cannot be emphasized enough when working toward positive
interdisciplinary collaboration., Members of interdisciplinary teams are all owning a part of the
success of the patient care transitions and contribute to the quality of care we provide our
patients and families., Communication is promoted in our organization as part of our journey to
excellence with RELATE communication model and words that work. By introducing this model
of communication it prevents employees from putting up barriers to work flow processes or
departmental communications that could lead to negativity., We also have quarterly
interdepartmental rounding. Example of which is , we recently had an interdepartmental
rounding with the Director of Security and Safety. Our nurses were concerned with 24 hour
