Hai-Duong Nguyen
Collaboration for Improving Patient Health Outcomes from the American Association of
my paper Analysis of Health Promotion and Cultural Diversity within the Nursing Practice by
thesis.
and is imperative to providing patient-centered care (AACN, 2008, p. 23). It is also a complex
dynamic that is grounded in complementary healthcare professional roles and is contingent upon
advance patient care (AACN, 2008, p. 23). Yet effective interprofessional communication itself
professions that foster collaboration to improve patient care (AACN, 2008, p. 23). This is due
to the fact that an interprofessional education enables nurses to enter the workplace with
standards of competency and communication by preparing the graduate nurse with the
knowledge of the definition of shared goals clear role expectations of members a flexible
decision making process and the establishment of open communication patterns and leadership
promotion and cultural sensitivity and diversity is also important within the scope of patient-
centered care, and this attunement must be always be demonstrated when it comes to
health promotion and cultural diversity shows mastery of the concepts of interprofessional
embedded within the emphasis on health promotion is the collaboration between healthcare
professionals towards a uniform goal that is, for healthcare providers to encourage and teach
patients and the public in health promotion and strategies towards health promotion. Embedded
within the emphasis on cultural diversity is the need for health care professionals to effectively
sensitive manner as this is a more effective, and perhaps shorter route to health promotion. For
example, the collaboration between nurses and other healthcare workers when a patient does not
speak English well is especially important in the areas of diagnosis, reducing hospital stay,
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Essential VI: Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration for Improving Patient Health