Report: Collaborative Practice in Healthcare Case Management

This report delves into the critical role of collaborative practice within case management in healthcare and community care settings. It defines collaboration and explores its significance in achieving optimal patient outcomes. The report outlines the features of successful collaboration, such as effectiv...Read More

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Role of collaborative practice....................................................................................................2
Features of collaboration............................................................................................................3
Communication......................................................................................................................3
Delegation and share..............................................................................................................4
Efficiency and inspire.............................................................................................................4
Support and trust.....................................................................................................................4
Challenges arising from the collaboration.................................................................................5
Lack of leadership..................................................................................................................5
Lack of synchronization.........................................................................................................5
Lack of social interaction.......................................................................................................5
Wrong team members.............................................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
Bibliography...............................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Collaborate means working together with mutual understanding. Collaboration in the
healthcare can be defined as the professional of health care are playing their complementary
roles and working together with the corporation, sharing the problems and responsibilities
and together making a decision to work according to the plans (Petri, 2010). World Health
Organization defined the collaborative practice as a state, which occurs as and when various
health workers from various professional backgrounds working together with families,
communities, patients, and carers to give the best quality of care (Zwarenstein, 2009).
Collaborate helps the professional in communicating effectively which result in the
performance growth. Effective teamwork and good working relationships in healthcare and
community care can result in reducing errors and improve outcomes. Various challenges such
as no mutual trust and boundaries can hinder the growth of the successful collaboration
(Rycroft-Malone, 2015).
This research essay explores the role about the collaborative practice in the case
management, features of collaboration, and the challenges that hinder the growth of the
collaborative practice.
Role of collaborative practice
The idea of working together make huge sense, working collaboratively is not
essential. Working together helps ineffective results of the performance. At the time of the
training, healthcare providers may have some type of experience but the most important is
discipline/profession-specific. Numerous health care providers use various types of language
for the same thing. For example patient, consumer, client, etc.

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Collaborative practices can be termed as that type of approach, which enables health
care providers to give the high-quality services to gain the best possible personal health
outcomes, which helps in increasing the potential for efficient and cost-effective delivery of
care (Fewster-Thuente, 2008).
The term collaboration is commonly mentioned in healthcare and has a very good grip
on healthcare, as it is a solution to the complexity, which is available in the healthcare
system. This is because due to this different interest came together intending to achieve a
common goal and reduces the complexities. The concept of the collaboration was entered
healthcare literature in the year 1940s in terms to eliminate the complexity among the nursing
and medicines as the dominant interest.
Collaboration is capable of reducing duplications of health care, helps in avoiding the
gaps and able to reduce the costs in the essence of case management. It consists of regular
communication with patients, and various services and professionals, and caregivers in which
they came into contact ('Brien, 2009).
Features of collaboration
Communication
Having proper communication is one of the important features for effective
collaboration in health care and community care. Effective communicating helps in dealing
with the problem and helps the person in considering that no one has the same information
and it also helps in consistency updating. Being a good communicator also involve the good
listener, which helps in increasing the trust among the individuals. Therefore, communication
in the collaborating helps in developing new ideas for healthcare.

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For Example: In a company various problems arises among the team members and
team leader because of the communication gap. Things get complicated which solved with
the help of proper communication and develops the strength of the team.
Delegation and share
The team, which works together, helps in understanding the strength and weakness.
Proper delegating of the work in the collaboration helps in developing the growth in the
organization. It helps in resolving the conflicts (Samuelson, 2012).
For Example: Some delegating the authority to cause the conflict in the team, which
resulted in bad collaboration. Balanced delegation and appropriate share in the authority
result in the best collaboration.
Efficiency and inspire
A strong and cohesive team develops that system, which helps them to collaborate
effectively to complete the tasks in a particular manner. Working together helps in increasing
capabilities.
For example: The company’s members feel motivated and increased their efficiency
as and when they feel like their efforts are being recognized.
Support and trust
Health care and community care has various problems in their environment.
Collaboration can support others in increasing the performance of others and also helps the
organization in achieving the goal of the company. Building bonds and trust can help in
developing productivity (Bardet, 2015).

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Challenges arising from the collaboration
Lack of leadership
When there is need of maximizing the effectiveness, leadership is very much
necessary for the team collaboration. Lack of proper leadership in the health care and
community care, somehow hinder the growth of the collaboration in the team. Rewarding the
team helps in increasing the motivation of the individuals.
Example: Some bosses in the health care ask their workers to stay until late and
complete the work, which reflects the bad leadership, and restrict the growth of the
teamwork.
Lack of synchronization
Sharing of the work plays an important role in when it comes to the team ability to
synchronize. Lacking synchronization can restrict effective collaboration. This help in
knowing about the movements of the things in a very timely manner (Sullivan, 2017).
Lack of social interaction
Huge time is taken by the team to make the bond with the outside environment to
work in a better way. Lack of social interaction among the team can result in ineffective
collaboration. Thus, it can be aid that the team, which do not share the affective bond in the
organization, can result in the problems.
Example: Healthcare worker feels pressurized if they do not interact with others while
working. Various community care employees left the job due to less interaction with others.
Wrong team members
Having the wrong persons in the team can also restrict effective collaboration.
Individuals having the mentality of using “I” instead of “WE” can result in ineffective team

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collaboration. This may also result in tensions and various issues can be developed in the
team.
Example: One team members could get upset from other over not getting the
promotion, generation of the negative behavior results in the bad collaboration.
Conclusion
From the above analysis, it can be summarized that collaboration plays an important
role in health care and community care. Various healthcares are continuously realizing the
value of the collaboration and they are looking forward to the ways to foster it within the
teams. Various issues in the health care environment can be dealing with the help of
effective collaboration. Although various challenges, mentioned above are being faced in
achieving the growth in the collaborating practices in the case management. Therefore, now it
is our choice about the effective collaboration, if we want to see the business growth and
wishes to turn the team members into the productive superheroes, then it is the high time to
foster a collaborative practice in the team.

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Zwarenstein, M. G. (2009). Interprofessional collaboration: effects of practice‐based
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