Women’s Health
Healthcare personnel collaborate all the time in clinical practice as most of the time; it takes several healthcare partners to see a patient’s treatment through. The goal of the collaboration is to improve communication between people who are working towards the same objective.
Studies show that collaboration between researchers and nurses is revolutionary to the advancement of clinical care as it provides different perspectives to both, whereby researchers can offer innovative tools or processes for patient care. In contrast, nurses can provide information on the progression of the patients (Engelke and Marshburn, 2006). According to Reinke (2011), advanced nurses should take charge of interdisciplinary collaborations, and their first role should be coordinating these initiatives because their profession prepares them to assess patient’s needs, history and condition regularly. Also, among the healthcare partners, they have the best communication skills; their area of work is never isolated; hence, they are always working alongside other healthcare staff. Correspondingly, nurses should be the ethical barometer of collaborative research because they are taught to care about patients ‘ wellbeing (Nurmi et al. 2017) particularly. Therefore, they will focus on the social value of the research to the community, and they will always put human subjects first.
There is a correlation between stress and lifestyle diseases such as diabetes as well as heart diseases. In fact, there is a medical study that shows that 90% of illnesses are caused by stress (Thames and Thomason, N/d). In this case, a nurse could work with a psychologist and internal medicine practitioner to find ways to detect these symptoms before they advanced into full-blown diseases and treat them accordingly. For instance, if a patient showed up with pre-diabetes instead of just being told to eat right and exercise, they should have mandatory visits to a psychologist to eliminate stress from the various causes. This practice would improve the quality of life for so many people, and the research collected could help advance the care of patients with such diseases.