“It is only by working together, in a spirit of mutual respect and collaboration, that we can start to build an integrative model of care, which may be our best hope for changing the trajectory of our people and our planet”
Tieraona Low Dog, MD “The goal of interprofessional collaboration if to produce a “synthesis of the information such that the outcomes are more than the additive”” ((Muir, 2008, p. 5.), Arnold and Boggs, 2011, p.474) interprofessional collaboration “enables practitioner’s to learn new skills and approaches, and encourages synergistic creativity among professionals.” (Arnold and Boggs, 2011, p. 474). “Collaboration decreases fragmentation and duplication of effort and promotes safe quality of care, presents desired characteristics
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(Arnold and Boggs, 2011, p. 474). There is a distinct purpose for team meetings that is concentrated on a discussion about targeted clients and their family need and attaining related treatment goals. “Interprofessional and interdisciplinary collaborations require deliberate effort on the part of the groups involved. The key to collaboration is recognizing and having the present the components that are necessary and sufficient for the collaboration to work”. (Pressler & Kenner, 2012). “Collaboration is an essential feature of nursing work and is seen as a central nursing competency, nurses often find that collaborative practice can be challenging within contemporary health care settings” (Doane & Varco, 2015, p. 397). Some nurses go as far as to ignore or avoid the collaborative aspect of their work, there are many factors as to why they would do this, lack of knowledge sharing, a misconstrued perception of reciprocity and equity of status, the hierarchy of power between interprofessional colleagues, and some nurses elicited, “individual anxiety, avoidance behaviors and defensive professional efforts” (Doane & Varco, 2015, P. 397) as their reasons. The professional consequences of these actions for nurses are “a poorer comprehension and