Collaboration & Teamwork: The Essence of Collaborative Health Care

Goals of the Campaign for Action

Expand accessibility to health care, promote collaboration and teamwork, encourage nursing leadership roles, transform nursing education, diversify nursing, and collect workforce data.

Interprofessional Teams

Consist of various professionals working together to improve access to care and health service efficiency.

Discharge Planning

The process that starts upon admission to a health care facility, involving the interprofessional team and the client to prepare for safe discharge, including medication education, client caregiver instruction, and follow-up arrangements.

Team STEPPS

Team Strategies, Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety.

The benefits when healthcare teams collaborate

Client safety, quality of care, and health care outcomes are improved when heath care teams collaborate

A nurse is providing an on-coming report to another nurse on a client who has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Which of the following client information should the nurse include in the “situation” portion when using the I-SBAR-R reporting tool?

A- lives alone

B- eats one meal a day

C- reports shortness of breath

D- arterial blood gases prescribed

When using the I-SBAR-R (I = Introduction, S = Situation, B = Background, A = Assessment, R = Recommendation, R = Read back/Repeat) reporting tool, the nurse should include the client’s report of shortness of breath in the “situation” for a client who has COPD. In this portion of the tool, the nurse should describe the purpose of the client’s admission and identify why the client is being admitted. The information about living alone and eating one meal a day is client information that can be included in the “background” portion of the tool. Arterial blood gases is client information that can be included in the “recommendation” portion of the tool. This portion can also include the provider’s prescriptions along with the plan of care for the client.