Current Trends In Nursing Practice: Interprofessional Collaboration

Current Trends in Nursing Practice
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Current Trends in Nursing Practice
Introduction
Modern nursing as a practice has been around since the 1850s when Florence Nightingale pioneered it. Since then, it has steadily evolved to encompass new trends, such as the growth in telehealth that allows virtual assessment and health technology like chatbots that enable more accessible access to healthcare. More importantly, interprofessional collaboration brings together different health professionals to ensure a meaningful impact on patient care through reducing errors, providing higher quality care, and increasing safety.
Interprofessional Collaboration
An assessment of the impact of interprofessional collaboration on patient care requires the analysis of three key indicators. They are a reduction in errors, provision of higher-quality care, and an increase in patient safety. The first key indicator is the reduction in errors. A medical error may be defined as an adverse effect of medical treatment either through commission or omission by a healthcare provider. Interprofessional collaboration can reduce errors mainly through communication. Nurses, physicians, and pharmacists must create an open line of communication while maintaining the patients' privacy jointly as a team (Rosen et al., 2018), ensuring that every action taken is informed.
The second indicator is the provision of higher quality care. Interprofessional collaboration is critical to providing high-quality medical care through c...