Interprofessional Collaboration: A Nursing Leadership Perspective

This report delves into the crucial role of nursing leadership in fostering interprofessional collaboration within healthcare settings. It emphasizes how effective leadership can improve patient care by promoting teamwork among various healthcare professionals. The report highlights the importance of shared goals, mutual trust, clear roles, effective communication, and measurable outcomes as key components for successful interprofessional relationships. It analyzes potential strategies for enhancing nursing leadership skills, such as improving communication, active involvement in decision-making, continuous learning, and ongoing monitoring. The report draws on various research articles to support its findings, underscoring the significant impact of leadership on interprofessional collaboration and the resulting benefits for patient outcomes. The conclusion reinforces the importance of nursing leadership in acute healthcare settings and the attributes that contribute to effective leadership, such as enhanced communication, engagement, continuous learning, and monitoring.

Nursing
assignment

Introduction
• In nursing, leader inspires others to work with quality
to achieve a common goal such as better patient care.
• It is also helpful in maintaining inter-professional
relationship.
• Inter-professional relationship in the healthcare is
foundation aspect in order to promote collaborative
healthcare (Reuterswärd & Hylander, 2017).

Relationship between nursing
leader and inter-professional
collaboration• Inter-professional relationship encourages team work by involving
different healthcare professional in collaboration with the patient and
their carers.
• A good nurse leader helps in forming inter-professional relationship
among the nursing organization (Al Sabei & Ross, 2019).
• To be a good leader one should acquire:
• integrity
• initiative,
• capacity to handle whole team
• Ability to handle stress

Critical analysis
• According to, Smith et al., (2018), inter- professional relationship
helps in facilitating nursing leadership change that provide suitable
environment for a patients.
• The main aim of the article is to evaluate the effect of leadership in
the inter-professional health as well as social care teams.
• In order to complete the research, 28 papers were reviewed by using
systemic methods.
• From the literature, it is identified that leadership have their effect on
the inter-professional relationship.

Five common goals
• Maintenance of inter-professional relationship in nursing
leader depends upon five common goals such as,
• shared goals
• mutual trust
• clear roles
• effective communication
• measurable outcomes and process (Clarke & Hassmiller,
2013).

Critical analysis
• According to Regan, Laschinger & Wong, (2016), structural
empowerment and authentic leadership promotes inter-
professional collaboration among nurses.
• The main of the article is to examine the fresh graduate
nurse’s perception that is influenced by structural
empowerment and traditional leadership.
• In order to get the research done, non-experimental design,
which is predictive is formulated.

Potential strategies
• The potential strategies used in the enhancement of nursing
leadership skills are: (Orchard et al., 2017)
1. Enhancing communication
2. Getting involved in all decision
3. pursue learning lifetime and
4. monitoring the whole process

Significance of potential
strategies
1. If the leader has a great communication skill, it will be easy for them to
maintain inter- professional relationship (Foronda, MacWilliams, &
McArthur, 2016).
2. By involving with the team members they will be able to know their pain
and worries, which is useful in forming inter-professional relationship
(Brewer et al., 2016).
3. Monitoring continuously helps in encouraging the team mate and also
helps in forming inter professional relation (Reuterswärd & Hylander,
2017).
4. Lifelong learning also helps the nurse to gain new knowledge assists in
forming inter-professional relation (Esplen et al., 2018).

conclusion
• Nursing leadership is extremely important is forming an inter-
professional collaboration in the acute healthcare settings.
• From different literature it is identified that, nursing leader helps in
forming inter-professional collaboration and also helps in providing
the change that is required for better patient care.
• The personal attributes that helps in enhancing the leadership skills
are enhancing communication, getting involved in all decision, pursue
learning lifetime and monitoring the whole process.

Reference
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