Healthcare Professionals And Scope Of Practice Research

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Today’s healthcare professionals are asked to work in collaborative, integrated teams to deliver patient-centered care, in order to meet the needs of an aging population. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified teamwork and collaboration as critical competencies to provide safe, high-quality care (Greiner, 2003). The IOM believe when healthcare professional understand each other’ roles and are able to communicate and work effectively together, patients are more likely to receive safe, quality care (Barnsteiner, 2007).
Many professionals are unaware of the other health professions responsibilities and scope of practice. As nurses we tend to become intertwine into our own professions, we sometime develop a negative bias of the role of other