Nurse-physician collaboration: care of adults and the elderly

Preface / Eugenia L. Siegler and Fay W. Whitney

Foreword / Joan Lynaugh and Barbara Bates

Part I. Background

What is collaboration? ; Education of physicians and nurses ; Social and economic barriers to collaborative practice / Eugenia L. Siegler and Fay W. Whitney

Overcoming institutional challenges to collaborative practice / Lois K. Evans

Part II. Examples of collaborative practice

Ambulatory care / Grace Cordts ... [et al.]

The nursing home / Catherine Stevenson, Barbara Kamholz, Eugenia L. Siegler

Home care / Bruce Kinosian, Kathy McMahon, Rta Roque

The post-stroke consultation service / Fay W. Whitney, Marianne Shaughnessy, Eugenia L. Siegler

The intensive care unit / Judith G. Baggs and Ann Marie T. Brooks

Continuity of care / Patricia A. O'Hare and Debra S. Wertheimer

Part III. Education

Teaching collaboration to nursing and medical undergraduates / Angelo P. Giardino, Eileen R. Giardino, Eugenia L. Siegler

Teaching collaborative skills to nurse practitioner students / Neville Strumpf and Fay W. Whitney

Part IV. Research

Instruments for studying collaboration / Angelo P. Giardino and Rebecca A.P. Jones

Collaborative practice research questions / Eugenia L. Siegler, Fay W. Whitney, Madeline H. Schmitt

Part V. Conclusion

Collaboration past and future / Eugenia L. Siegler and Fay W. Whitney.