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Communication in a Collaborative Healthcare Context
Providing leadership in a healthcare context requires one skilled both as a manager and as a collaborator. The modern healthcare context is a highly collaborative environment in which medical professionals must work hand in hand with specialists, nurses, physicians, family members, physical therapists, mental health professional, administrators and the patients themselves in order to derive treatment of the highest quality. The discussion hereafter considers the implications of this collaborative environment to those serving in roles of leadership within the healthcare field with a particular focus on communication.
Communicating in the Collaborative Healthcare Context:
My consideration of communication in the healthcare context is taken from recent clinical experiences within which I interviewed an Advanced Practice Nurse, a doctorally prepared nurse and an ICU nurse manager. My time at the Pacific Institute of Nursing
Conference would yield a great many insights concerning the value of effective communication tactics in collaborative nursing scenarios. The nursing professional functions as linchpin in the healthcare process. The Registered Nurse (RN) will often function as a liaison between an array of intersecting parties and interests. Providing critical interactive care to the patient, offering direct reports to attending physicians and documenting engagements throughout the treatment process for review by administrative personnel, insurance companies, pharmacies, legal departments and a host of other interested parties, the communication skills of the RN are essential in conducting responsibilities inherent to the job.
So reports the research by Godbole (2009), which points out that at the most basic level, the well-being and psychological experience of the patient will depend a great deal on the communicational...
Steps were also taken to organize a stock market in Lahore (Burki, 1999, pp.127-128). Also organized during this period were the Pakistan Industrial and Credit Investment Corporation (PICIC) and the Industrial Development Bank of Pakistan (IDBP), both of which were important to industrial development, obtaining "large amounts of capital from the World Bank, the former for investment in large industries, the latter in relatively smaller enterprises" (Burki, 1999, p. 128). This
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