Orchard Carole A, Sonibare Olubukola, Morse Adam, Collins Jennifer, Al-Hamad Areej
Professor, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University, London, ON.
Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Western University, London, ON.
Nurs Leadersh (Tor Ont). 2017;30(2):26-38. doi: 10.12927/cjnl.2017.25257.
This paper presents a discussion on the key role that nurses assume with their patients and also with other health providers. We will argue that a change is needed to provide "space" for nurses to re-engage with their patients and to return to their key coordinating role between their patients, their family members and other health providers in interprofessional patient and family-centred collaborative practice. Furthermore, we will discuss the important role of nurse leaders to present the nurses' unique role and importance to health system administrators and policy makers to improve health outcomes of patients and how their role can concomitantly reduce healthcare costs.
本文讨论了护士在照顾患者以及与其他医疗服务提供者相处时所承担的关键角色。我们认为需要做出改变，为护士提供“空间”，使其重新与患者建立联系，并在跨专业的以患者和家庭为中心的协作实践中，回归到在患者、其家庭成员和其他医疗服务提供者之间发挥关键协调作用的位置。此外，我们还将探讨护士长的重要作用，即向卫生系统管理人员和政策制定者展现护士的独特角色和重要性，以改善患者的健康状况，以及护士的角色如何能同时降低医疗成本。
