COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE BETWEEN REGISTERED NURSES AND MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS IN AUSTRALIAN GENERAL PRACTICE: MOVING FROM RHETORIC TO REALITY | Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing Home Archives Vol. 20 No. 4 (2003): June - August 2003 Scholarly Papers Main Article Content

Elizabeth Patterson, RN, PhD
Anne McMurray, RN, PhD

Keywords

practice nurse, general practice, collaborative practice, expanded role, practice model

Abstract

Collaborative practice between medical practitioners and nurses is purported to improve patient access to services, improve health outcomes, provide a more ‘seamless service’, increase efficiency of care, reduce health care costs and improve practitioner job satisfaction. Therefore, it is important to understand what hinders and what facilitates this type of interdisciplinary functioning. This paper will examine these factors in the context of the Australian general practice setting. It is timely because recent Government financial incentives have been provided to increase the number of nurses employed in this sector and also to expand their role. Awareness of these factors may enable nurses in general practice, both individually and collectively, to better understand the dynamics of role expansion in order to move towards collaborative partnerships with their medical colleagues. Recommendations to advance collaborative practice are given and a model of practice proposed that identifies possible autonomous, collaborative and dependent functions for nurses in general practice.

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COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE BETWEEN REGISTERED NURSES AND MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS IN AUSTRALIAN GENERAL PRACTICE: MOVING FROM RHETORIC TO REALITY. Aust J Adv Nurs [Internet]. 2003 Aug. 1 [cited 2024 Oct. 18];20(4). Available from: https://www.ajan.com.au/index.php/AJAN/article/view/2030

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