Nurse-Physician Collaboration

Nursing is known to be one of the most challenging careers, owing to the tough responsibilities that nurse practitioners are charged with and the immense sensitivity of their role (Li, 2013). Both Registered nurses and nurse practitioners work together monitoring a range of patients’ health and providing them with adapt care needed within their scope of practice. However, the roles and the responsibilities they bestowed are different. Creating a balance between a tough job and the extremely sensitive wellbeing of a patient, which lies in the decisions that a nurse practitioner makes, does surely propel one to the pinnacle of clinical nursing. As they carry out this sensitive role, they are also expected to be active in a wide range of other areas, including research, education, policy, and clinical governance. It is true that the working environment in which they work, to a considerable extent, does not provide the flexibility needed by nurse practitioners in an effort to carry out these complex roles, but they somehow have shown they are able to achieve this (Fleming & Carberry, 2011). This essay looks to justify the claim that nurse practitioners are the pinnacle of clinical nursing drawn from evidence from existing literature. It will demonstrate the roles and responsibilities a nursing practitioner holds a higher expectation than a registered nurse. It is also argued though that there is immense pressure on registered nurse, making the nurse practitioners role not as

The health care environment is constantly changing, new systems arise every day with terminology of

Those who are admitted to hospitals nowadays either through the emergency department or elective admission usually have multiple and complex health conditions and classically require more than one health professional to address these needs. In today’s hospital settings interprofessional collaboration is being promoted as a holistic means of providing patient centred care and plays an extremely important role in healthcare. It is said to improve the delivery of healthcare by reducing morbidity and mortality by decreasing wait times, improving chronic disease management and promoting patient safety (World Health Organisation, 2010).

The capacity to work with other clinicians from various disciplines, in delivery of quality care through joint effort, is an essential feature needed in health care profession. Additionally, it is through effective and skilled professional communication of health care professionals that the patients and family members are able to receive quality care and outcomes. The interprofessional collaboration is affected by the environmental conditions, as well as health care conditions. The impact of these factors, significance, and the management have greatly influenced the health care delivery. In order to enhance the knowledge of the future generation of nurses, designed models are needed, to demonstrate how collaboration works in clinical settings.

Patients are taking control of their healthcare needs. They are more informed than ever. The internet plays a major role in their learning. They are scheduling their appointments when their schedule permits and not the doctors, an end to long surgical waiting lists, and they want the latest best medications. Health care simply will never stay the same. It changes on a daily basis (Dranove & Sfekas, 2009).

To addressing the demands of the growing and ageing population, the full range of health services have needed to expand dramatically. This increase includes more

In order to improve the quality of patient care and ensure that the goals of care are being achieved, many settings are using the collaborative care delivery model. The collaborative “approach involves teams of health professionals working together to provide more coordinated and comprehensive care to clients,” (Kearney 2008). An interprofessional team can consist of nurses, physicians, care technologists nutritionists, counselors, physical therapists, educators, care givers and the patient. These members work together for the common purpose of enhancing the wellness of a particular patient.

Collaborative nurse with cardiac telemetry experience among adult patients. Energetic patients advocate skilled in successfully providing quality care and counseling to both patients and families. Motivated team leader continually focused on coordination and efficiency of patient care practices in accordance with JCAHO and nursing scope of practice.

The healthcare world has simply grown too large, too quickly and, as a result, has forgotten the reason behind which it stands: the patient. Continuity of care is in dire need of repair and without effective communication and coordination of care, the problem will not be corrected.

Collaboration (who on the interprofessional team is involved in planning care for the client(s) served): The team involved in the “planning of care” for this specific event was the event coordinator, the co-event team leader and a group of volunteers for different nursing schools and hospitals throughout the city.

As a child grows its needs change and its social environment adapts to respond to those needs; contrastingly, as a system grows it must change and adapt to adequately respond to the needs of its users. The ever-present quality of the human society to undergo transformation and expansion entails that the underlying systems upholding its effective functioning must parallel educational, technological and social advancements in order to avoid being thrown into disarray. One of the largest systems in the United States is the healthcare industry. Being a vital necessity of any developed society, structured functioning of the healthcare industry is one of the primary concerns of any governing body and new regulative steps are continually taken to ensure that health care is accessible to all members of society.

The future and direction of health care has been the topic of discussion amongst politician and U.S citizens today. There are several challenges surrounding the future and strategic direction in which health care should be heading. Accreditation, quality of health care and organization’s compliance; access to health care, maintaining a skilled workforce, information technology and pay for performance are some of the challenges that currently presenting itself in healthcare today. If health care is not dealt with appropriately it will have a significant effect an impact on the strategic direction in the future and direction of care.

As healthcare continues to evolve, as technology becomes more advanced and as human beings live longer, yet sicker, there is the

Health care has changed significantly from it has used to be in the past and is still continuing to change and progress rapidly. The entire system has done a complete evolution from what it used to be and now the amazing technology, advances in medicine and health care economics are contributing factors to its rapid progression. We also need to remember that health care has become a booming business and patients have shifted into consumers changing the health care delivery models in a variety of ways for the future.

In light of these challenges, a need for review and reform of our healthcare practices has become apparent.