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Introduction
Collaborative nursing model is the care delivery approach which is used by the
nursing professionals so that while developing effective care strategies for the patients, they
could work with other care professionals to achieve the shared goal (Fortney et al. 2015).
These collaborative effort towards a shared goal help the nursing professionals to develop
effective ability to that they could work together towards a shared goal or to work effectively
to develop holistic care for patients (Chwastiak et al. 2017). In mental healthcare aspects as
well, collaborative healthcare approach becomes important for therapeutic association so that
patients with psychological complication could develop trust and belief upon the healthcare
process (Coventry et al. 2015). Further, collaborative care approach includes respect and care
for patients which becomes critical for patients with mental complications as they are already
suffering from stress depression and other psychological and environmental stressors
(Fortney et al. 2015).
Therefore, the primary aim of this paper would be to mention the strategies within the
collaborative nursing approach should be used by the nursing professionals while caring for
mentally ill patients. Further, it would also discuss the reason nursing professionals should
gain knowledge about the mental healthcare consumers and their experiences of living with
the effects of a mental disorder. Besides this, the paper would also highlight one aspect,
behaviour, attitude or skill of my nursing practice that would be required to develop my
collaborative aspects. Finally, the strategies to develop this aspect would also be discussed in
this paper.
Discussion
Collaborative care approach requires few important aspects within the care
professionals that determine the effectiveness and success of the actions, these collaborative

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teams would be conducting (Fortney et al. 2015). These aspects are the trust and belief of
every individual involved in collaborative care towards the shared goal, their commitment to
the team and improved outcome, and ability to communicate to exchange information. It was
also observed in the discussion by Petersen et al. (2016) that while developing clinical
collaboration between nursing professionals and patients, trust respect and belief could be
maintained in the care process. There are multiple evidences present or have been observed
by the researchers that indicates to the fact that collaborative relationship is important for the
development of holistic and critical approach in mental healthcare processes. Further, in a
paper by Chwastiak et al. (2017), it was also mentioned that collaborative care approach
would help the nursing professionals involved in mental healthcare processes to develop a
collaborative relationship with the patents that are suffering from psychological or
environmental stressors. As it was observed through critical research conducted by Acharya
et al. (2017) that application of therapeutic relationship with the mentally ill patients helps the
care professionals to understand the mental, emotional and spiritual complications that the
patient is suffering from and using their insight professionals could conduct their healthcare
effectively. Further, through collaboration with patients, it is possible to understand the risk
factors and critical aspects of the patients that should be included in the process. Therefore,
application of therapeutic relationship with the patients help the mental healthcare
professionals to understand the aspects which could enhance their psychic episodes and what
are the complications due to which these patients suffer from critical conditions (Chwastiak
et al., 2017).
While analysing the multiple factors that is associated with mental healthcare
complications the discussion about environmental, personal and professionals stressors that
are associated with such complications should be discussed. Factors such as social exclusion,
episodes of discrimination and racial comments affect the mental health condition of patients.