Lessons in Collaboration from the Management of Pandemic in 2 Large Skilled Nursing Facility Chains
November 1, 2021
JAMDA
Interprofessional collaboration is defined as an active and ongoing partnership between professionals from diverse backgrounds with distinctive professional cultures and possibly representing different organizations or sectors working together in providing services for the benefit of health care users.1 Effective collaboration that results in greater trust and engagement among interprofessional team members may appear simple but is no simple task.2 The need for interprofessional collaborations among organizational team members and across organizations is not new but has intensified since the pandemic.