Collaboration Issues and Models - Within and Outside Nursing)
Collaboration Issues and Models - Within and Outside Nursing)
Collaboration Issues and Models - Within and Outside Nursing)
CHARACTERISTICS OF COLLABORATION:
seek to establish communication patterns and develop trust, from this they
identify the client needs, and determine the goals toward which they will work.
The middle phase occurs when team members start working together to
accomplish desired goals. Their work may include assessment and planning as
well as implementation and evaluation. It is repeated until the goal
accomplishment.
The termination phase occurs when the needs for team members to work together
has ended. When team members have grown close in relationship, termination
can be difficult.
It often requires careful advance preparation to make certain that all parties
understand when and why it is taking place.
MODELS OF COLLABORATION BETWEEN EDUCATION AND SERVICE:
The nursing literature presents several collaboration models that have emerged
between educational institutions and clinical agencies as a means to integrate
education, practise and research initiatives as well as providing a vehicle by
which the theory clinical practice gap is bridged and best practice outcome are
achieved.
Clinical School of Nursing:
It is one that encompasses the highest level of academic and clinical nursing
research and education. This was the concept of visionary nurses from both La
Trobe and The Alfred Clinical School of Nursing University. This occurred
within a context of a long history of collaboration and cooperation between these
two institutions going back many years culminating in the establishment of the
Clinical School in February, 1995. The development of the Clinical School offers
benefits to both hospital and university. It brings academic staff to the hospital,
with opportunity for exchange of ideas with clinical nurses with increased
opportunities for clinical research. Many educational openings for expert clinical
nurses to become involved with the universitys academic program were evolved.
The move to the concept of the clinical school is founded on recognition of the
fundamental importance of the close and continuing link between the theory and
practice of nursing at all levels.
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faculty member becomes an advisor, resource, role model and educator for both
the nurse expert and learner in their respective roles and responsibilities.
The Bridge of Practice Model(2008)
Key features of model:
First, student complete all of the clinical experiences in one participating
hospital.
Second, one full-time teaching faculty serves as a liaison for each bridge
hospital.
This faculty member is given a space, usually in the nursing educational
department, and is then available to serve as a resource for not only the
clinical associate but also for the hospital nursing staff
Third, students are acutely involved in selecting their clinical placement.
The Bridge to Practice Model provides undergraduates nursing students with
continuity in medical surgical education through placement in the same hospital
for all medical-surgical clinical rotation. Hospital that participates in the bridge
model provides senior clinical nurse preceptors whose time is paid for by the
university, The bridge to practice model emphasizes professional incentives for
hospital nurse to participate in nursing education. Planned incentives includes the
rewarding of hospital nurse with continuing education credits for participation in
the short-term training on educational methodology and approaches. A tuition
discount is offered for graduates course work at the university for institutional
students and faculty, more involvement with clinical support services and care
management, and more informed employment choices by senior students.
Nurse Consultant Model:
Collaboration for in service/ Continuing educational programs
The key ingredients is a partnership between educational and nursing service
institutions and personnel. Partnership relationship combines the strength of the
practical application and practical knowledge from nursing service sector and
education/theoretical knowledge from educational sector.
Lack of communication
Lack of understanding and appreciation
Lack of mutual trust and lack of respect
Dominance of one discipline over the other
Territoriality
Attitude
Administrative and organisational structure and procedure
Work roles and organizational responsibilities
Working relationships
Practices and changes in outcomes.
COLLABORATION IN NURSING:
Clearly identify the value: Team members must understand the value they
are expected to deliver, whether its increasing revenue or moving the
business into a new market.
Link to the organizations strategies: Collaboration that are closely
enmeshed with corporate strategy will deliver the need value. For example,
to ensure high customer satisfaction, Cisco created a collaborative
environment between various experts throughout the company and
customer account teams in an initiative called Specialist Optimization
Access and Results (SOAR).
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Select team players who are engaging, creative and expert: Almost 70
percent of the executives surveyed in the EIU Designing Effective
Collaboration study stated that creativity is essential in each team member.
They also said that each member must be personally excited and optimistic
about the project and bring a unique expertise.
Build trust among the co-workers: More important than employees
trusting their managers is co-workers trusting each other. Although people
who cooperate and coordinate say mutual trust is important, they are the
same people who are working successfully without trust. For collaborators,
on the other hand, lack of trust is a deal breaker.
Define or modify processes: Collaborators require flexibility and may
follow processes that are unique to their role in the collaboration. Each
team member should have a specific responsibility and the opportunity to
clarify objectives, and the team needs a clear timeline.
Employ technology that is flexible and secure: Collaboration need tools to
communicate securely and flexibly. Virtual interaction such as tele presence
can be just as effective as face-to-face meetings when they replicate the inperson experience.
COLLABORATION OUTSIDE THE NURSING:
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