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Interdisciplinary Team Paper Janet Borngesser University of Alabama at Birmingham Interdisciplinary Leadership Role Development NUR 737 Dr. Martha Lavender July 15, 2015 Interdisciplinary Team Paper The neurocritical care intensive care unit (NICU) team has certainly undergone much change and transformation since the first neurocritical care physician and nurse practitioner (NP) took over the team and seven bed unit in 1999. Prior to this initial ‘team’ the NICU was managed by the neurosurgery attending and residents in between surgeries. The NICU team’s purpose was to improve and provide better care to the variety of complex neuro critical ill patient population at a 605 bed academic center in Metro Atlanta. Over the course of …show more content…

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