Improving Public Health through Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Insights from Nursing, Family Medicine, and General Practitioners

Abstract

Using methods from different fields, like nursing and family medicine together, to provide patient-centered care. Family medicine and nursing work well together in basic care, and nurses are working together more and more to meet the complex needs of their patients. This article looks at modern models of multidisciplinary collaboration, such as team-based care and the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), and how they affect how well patients do, how much it costs, and how well all-around care is given. The review also talks about problems that can come up with integration, like not knowing what your job is, having trouble communicating, and institutional limitations. It then suggests ways to get around these problems, such as training people from different fields, policies that help, and integrated health IT systems. There are case studies of successful merging that show how collaborative care can be used in real life.