Collaboration And Conflict In Nursing

Professional challenges, collaboration, and conflict in the nursing role are topics that all nurses are facing or could possibly face in the future. Anything a person does in life is going to be challenging in some sort of way. The following paper should discuss some of the situations and concerns that a nurse may develop or witness during their time as a nurse. As a student enters nursing school, student nurses are typically juniors in college and have experienced both challenges and conflict in life at some point. As for collaboration, student nurses more than likely have experienced this, but the definition “for collaboration” in the book, Current Issues in Nursing, says "Nurses and physicians cooperatively working together, sharing responsibility

All of these generations learned a different way of nursing because this profession is constantly evolving, this is where problems can occur (Cowen & Moorhead, 2011). As one can see, there are nurses in the workforce that can be as old as 71, and as young as student nurses in their 20’s. The concept of care for a patient is the same, but as nursing has evolved, there are skills that veterans know that student nurses don’t know and vice versa. In the article, “Talent-management strategies: Bridging the multigenerational gap in nursing,” it states a positive way to solve conflict issues is to build the right environment for these generations. This includes seeing both nurses’ points of view, assuming positive intent and common goals, and resisting imposing or judging personal values (Mercier, 2012). All people learn a different way. Different nursing schools or different instructors teach differently; which is where a possible rise for nursing collaboration

A nurse’s job is to provide culturally competent care, three ways to do this include: acknowledging patients’ and families’ cultural differences, incorporating their beliefs into the treatment plan, and respecting the values and lifestyles of cultures different than one’s own. In the article, “Cultural challenges and barriers through the voices of nurses,” the biggest challenge that was reported by multiple nurses was lack of knowledge about diverse cultures (Hart & Mareno, 2013). With so many different cultures being present in the United States, it is hard to find time to learn about all of them and the differences in care for all of them. In an article, “Understanding the Current State of Diversity in Nursing,” it states that empathizing with your patient is a priority because you are protecting their dignity (Nurse Together, 2013). Many nurses stated that they don’t know what certain preferences cultures have because they simple don’t have time to learn it; however they did state that they have to ask their patients every time about their specific cultural preferences when care is provided. Lack of resources to learn about the cultural care they need to be providing is also an issue. In nursing school, students learn general things about certain religions or