As nurses we are our patients advocates, we are their voices. Our patients and their families
trust us with their lives and it is our responsibility to do everything within our scope of practice
to make sure all of their needs are met. As nurses alone, we cannot provide our patients with
everything they need to rehabilitate. Our patients require various disciplines to reach their
optimal level of health. This requires nurses to have exceptional interprofessional collaboration
with our various members of the healthcare team.
“Interprofessional collaboration refers to the establishment of a mutually respectful
professional relationship that recognizes the unique knowledge and skills of both the nurse and
physician and has the expressed goal of promoting high-quality patient care—in particular
patient-centered care—and maximizing patient outcomes” (Woten,2018).
I work in a fast-paced
Trauma ICU and every day we perform multidisciplinary rounds on all of our patients. The
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- Fall '19
- Nursing, Health care provider
