Leading in a complex care environment requires nurses to acquire essential qualities and traits to achieve the desired collaboration. The right leaders maintain effective communication, trust, shared governance, and task prioritization to enable the team to respond to patients’ demands (Varagona et al., 2017). Advocacy for enhanced communication reinforces the quality of clinical rounds, staff meetings, and other practices to help optimize outcomes. Modeling trust and respect is also necessary to encourage a culture of shared responsibility and accountability (Duffy et al., 2020). Shared governance and autonomy also encourage interprofessional collaboration. Healthcare professionals use distributed power to share innovative solutions and contribute to decision-making. Thus, influential leaders encourage active involvement in interdisciplinary efforts to make everyone aware of events in the clinical environment and options for improving the quality and safety of patient care.
Effective interdisciplinary collaboration entails alignment between individual and collective aspirations. The process involves supportive relationships and buy-in from leaders and the rest of the workforce. Everyone participates in sharing creative solutions for addressing medication administration errors (Manias, 2018). The team involved in the interdisciplinary processes includes nurses, physicians, pharmacists, the nurse manager, and an administrator. The different healthcare professionals deliberate on medication administration safety, implications on organization and patients, and sustainable interventions (Manias, 2018). Active participation in briefings will allow everyone to share experiences on wrong medication administration and risks that increase patient vulnerability to undesirable outcomes.
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