Report on Interprofessional Collaboration in Healthcare Systems

This report delves into the significance of interprofessional collaboration in healthcare, emphasizing its positive impact on patient outcomes and safety. The report highlights how collaborative teamwork among healthcare professionals can reduce errors, improve care quality, and enhance patient satisfaction. It examines the benefits of this approach, including decreased workloads, increased job satisfaction, and improved care delivery through shared responsibilities and common goals. The report also stresses the importance of healthcare organizations and educational programs in fostering opportunities for nurses and other healthcare professionals to collaborate and conduct research. The provided references support the claims, offering insights into the practical implications and advantages of interprofessional collaboration within the healthcare environment. This report provides a comprehensive overview of the topic, underscoring the importance of collaboration for the future of healthcare.

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The role and importance of interprofessional collaboration in reducing errors, providing
high quality care and improving safety of the patients are grounded on scientific researches.
Current evidences suggest that interprofessional collaboration can not only improve practice
among the health staffs and develop the care delivery system but also enhances patient’s
satisfaction by increasing the health outcome of the patients. Healthcare collaboration is
considered to be a major strategy for healthcare improvement and it has been found to enhance
patient health outcomes by reducing the risk of adverse drug reactions that are preventable,
decreasing morbidity rates and optimizing dosages for mediation, thus, improving the care
process. A collaborative teamwork approach is also beneficial to the healthcare providers by
decreasing the work load and enhancing job satisfaction (Bosch & Mansell, 2015).
Interprofessional collaboration is achieved by involving professionals from more than 2 different
professions working towards a common goal or a set of common problems or complex
situations. Involving professionals from a multi discipline allows to accomplish more than what
only one individual can do. Thus, a collaborative approach towards care delivery encompassing a
common commitment and a shared responsibility improves care by developing new skills and
thinking beyond the custom thinking (Green & Johnson, 2015).
Healthcare organizations, nursing associations, private and public funders and other
nursing education or training programs must develop and increase opportunity for nurses to
manage and lead collaborative efforts with the health care professionals like physicians and other
healthcare staffs for conducting researches and design environments for practice (Altman, Butler
and Shern, 2016).

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References
Altman, S.H., Butler, A.S. and Shern, L. eds., 2016. Assessing progress on the Institute of
Medicine report The Future of Nursing. Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
Bosch, B., & Mansell, H. (2015). Interprofessional collaboration in health care: Lessons to be
learned from competitive sports. Canadian Pharmacists Journal/Revue des Pharmaciens
du Canada, 148(4), 176-179.
Green, B. N., & Johnson, C. D. (2015). Interprofessional collaboration in research, education,
and clinical practice: working together for a better future. Journal of Chiropractic
Education, 29(1), 1-10.