Leadership

Nursing: Leadership
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Nursing: Leadership
Interpersonal collaboration (IPC) is a critical aspect of the working environment. Through IPC, it has become easier to solve workplace complex issue among other problems. IPC helps a work team to share ideas, skills, and knowledge that assists them to grow at the individual and organization level (Green & Johnson, 2015). As such, clinical practices should endorse interpersonal collaboration as a means of encouraging teamwork, proper decision- making, and problem-solving.
Interpersonal collaboration has been tested for a long time. However, it has always emerged as one of the successful approaches to enhancing people of diverse opinion, and qualification to work together for the benefit of clients in health care. In fact, I encountered such a scenario when I was an intern. At this level, the interpersonal collaboration was hampered due to diverse individual and organization factor that was not handled with care. In this scenario, the interns are directly managed by the internship coordinator. However, duties are allocated by their immediate supervisors. During one of the working days, a fellow intern asks for a day off to attend to personal issues.
However, she submitted her request to the internship coordinator as opposed to the immediate supervisor as required. Without further consultation, her request was approved while, on the other side, the supervisor had allocated her some duties for the following day.

When the day came, the workplace had a shortage of attendance, and some patient went unattended while others missed their dosage. Though their health conditions were greatly affected, there were no serious causalities.
The obstacles to interpersonal collaboration that existed in this scenario are the inequality or lack of precise cutline for the division of power and allocation of duties between the supervisor and the internship coordinator. The collaboration of events in this context was hindered due to individual and organization factors. These factors include; differences in professional culture, knowledge base, and professional power. Due to lack of appropriate collaboration between the intern and the supervisors the clinical work was impeded. This issue was solved through instructing proper orientation and education among the new employee’s or interns joining the workforce. Additionally, senior managers and supervisors were advised to stick to their duties and mandates.
According to Steihaug et al. (2016), Power inequality between health care providers and patients, defining roles and duties as well as management is critical in enhancing a better environment for realizing suitable collaboration. Research also indicates that lack of cooperation has led to insufficient recuperation services which have lengthened the stay of patients in the institution (Steihaug et al., 2016). Findings by WHO note that team players among the health workers have been most successful when dealing with complex situations (Green & Johnson, 2015). Thus, it is critical to redesign organization structure in a way to nature information sharing and collaboration. This will help to support an integrated working environment between the patients’ health care professionals and providers (Green & Johnson, 2015).
References
Green, B. N., & Johnson, C. D. (2015). Interprofessional collaboration in research, education, and clinical practice: working together for a better future. Journal of Chiropractic Education, 29(1), 1-10.
Steihaug, S., Johannessen, A., Ådnanes, M., Paulsen, B., & Mannion, R. (2016). Challenges in Achieving Collaboration in Clinical Practice: The Case of Norwegian Health Care. International Journal Of Integrated Care, 16(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/ijic.2217