In recent years, there has been growing awareness of the need for interprofessional cooperation in healthcare. Countless studies have shown that genuine teamwork and team intelligence are critical to patient safety. Poor communication among health care personnel is a major factor in hospital errors, even more so than the level of staff competence and experience. This is why many schools for health professionals and major health care employers now promote interprofessional education and cooperation.

Bedside Manners is a play about workplace relations among physicians, nurses,...

This practical and evidence-based textbook offers a series of assessment, implementation and evaluation activities for professionals working in intensive care contexts. Designed to improve the quality of care delivery, it looks both at collaboration interprofessionally and between care providers and patients or family members.

Collaborative Practice in Intensive Care Settings:

• identifies the issues relating to the 'current state' of collaboration in an ICU through a series of assessment activities;
• provides a series of interventional...

This practical and evidence-based textbook offers a series of assessment, implementation and evaluation activities for professionals working in intensive care contexts. Designed to improve the quality of care delivery, it looks both at collaboration interprofessionally and between care providers and patients or family members.

Collaborative Practice in Intensive Care Settings:

• identifies the issues relating to the 'current state' of collaboration in an ICU through a series of assessment activities;
• provides a series of interventional...