The importance of a nurse’s collaboration with the interdisciplinary team

Nurses act as the collaborator, the manager and the coordinator of client care. They need consistently and continuously review the plan of care to ensure that all of the appropriate disciplines within the multidisciplinary team are contributing their services accordingly. This is so the plan of care is able to seamlessly moves the client toward their expected outcomes and goals.

The basis of nursing is caring, but patient care is not solely about the medical aspect of nursing.
Caring is what nurses do best, but it takes more than compassion to be an excellent nurse; it requires the knowledge and the skills to provide adequate care.
Caring can be done in many different ways, including talking to an individual or supporting them physically. That’s why It’s important for nurses to treat the patient’s emotional needs just as much as their physical ailments.

Nurses collaborate with patients, significant others, families, other nurses and other healthcare providers to solve patient care problems and to provide the optimal quality-level of care to the patient or group of patients.
All that care that promotes a healthy relationship between patient and nurses, which demonstrates how much empathy makes a difference in one’s clinical result, facilitating communication and interaction of both patient and nurse.

Nurses also interact with different professionals from different disciplines or departments and are required to work together to facilitate the total care of the patient by solving their complex care problems and needs.

Nurses identify patients that could potentially need specific interdisciplinary care. Registered Nurses have many different responsibilities, which include, but are not limited to: the opportunity to advocate for the client, to serve as the leader of an interdisciplinary group, to serve as a member of an interdisciplinary group, to enhance the nurse’s commitment to clients and client care, to employ group skills such as negotiation, compromise, conflict resolution & achieving consensus, to utilize creative problem solving and decision making skills to achieve desired patient outcomes & goals, and so much more. It’s not easy planning interdisciplinary client care. Being a part of the team and leading interdisciplinary client care, requires constant preparation. Nurses have to be prepared to discuss the patient’s needs with many different types of professionals and together progress toward the ideal recommendations and planned care.