Intra-professional Collaborative Practice among Nurses /

The nursing and health-care community, with their unwavering commitment and passion for excellence in patient care, have provided the expertise and countless hours of volunteer work essential to the development and revision of each guideline. [...] This guideline identifies: ■ best practices for intra-professional practice; and ■ The organizational culture, values and relationships, and the structures and processes required, for developing and sustaining effective intra-professional nursing practice among nurses. [...] Recommendation 1. 2: IV ✚ Nurses acquire and demonstrate the attributes of team work through: ■ learning about the impact of interpersonal factors on the team; ■ team building activities; ■ demonstrating their commitment to the team; and ■ communicating effectively and openly, based on a clear understanding of their own roles scope of practice, and those of other team members. [...] Professional/Occupational Components ■ T he factors of individual nurses that affect the health of the work environment include the personal attributes, skills and knowledge that determine how she/he responds to the physical, cognitive and psycho-social demands of work. [...] With the mounting evidence of the importance of these relationships there is a need to examine the multiple factors relevant to intra-professional collaborative practice among nurses that need to be considered to foster healthy work environments, quality patient care and the retention and recruitment of nurses.