Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration

Nurses must collaborate with advocates in health, business, education, city planning, and more to promote well-being for all in the community.

 

Goal and Impact

When experts work in teams, people have more and better options for good care. Nurses, physicians, pharmacists, social workers, and others in health and health care need to coordinate their efforts with each other as well as with those in education, business, transportation, community development, and other industries for the good of all. Combining the perspectives of all these professions and industries is essential to understanding the gaps in care that prevent us from realizing health equity.

Progress

Action Coalitions working to further interprofessional collaboration include Colorado, with a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to implement interprofessional practice teams at community health centers; Hawaii, which is building an interprofessional workforce database; and Virginia, which partnered with the Medical Society of Virginia Foundation to implement a pilot clinical leadership program that encourages pairings between nurses and other providers. A dozen states have or are in the process of creating an interprofessional collaboration practice and/or education model.

This graph is a part of the Campaign for Action Dashboard, a series of charts and graphs that show goals by which the Campaign evaluates its efforts to implement recommendations in the Institute of Medicine’s The Future of Nursing, Leading Change, Advancing Health.

  • Number of articles published in top 10 health services research journals co-authored by an RN and authors from other disciplines

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  1. Archived: Dashboard Indicators

    Mar 03, 2022

    In 2024, we condensed and updated the graphs and charts. View new measures. Developed in 2011, the Campaign for Action Dashboard is a series of graphs and charts the Campaign uses to evaluate its efforts to implement the recommendations in the Institute of more

    Issues: Building Healthier Communities, Collecting Workforce Data, Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration, Improving Access to Care, Increasing Diversity in Nursing, Promoting Nursing Leadership, Transforming Nursing Education, Tools & Tips: Dashboard Indicators, Milestones, Location: National,

  2. Number of articles published in top 10 health services research journals co-authored by an RN and authors from other disciplines

    Sep 09, 2021

    The graph below shows the number of articles published in top 10 health services research journals co-authored by an RN and authors from other disciplines. These data expand on Dashboard Indicator 4: Interprofessional Collaboration, used to measure the Campaign’s progress more

    Issues: Fostering Interprofessional Collaboration, Tools & Tips: Dashboard Indicators, Location: National,

 

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