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- Title
Critical care nurses as dual agents: enhancing inter-professional collaboration or hindering patient advocacy?
- Authors
Trapani, Josef
- Abstract
The author discusses factors associated with nurses' decision to look for help from doctors in a Maltese intensive care unit. Topics discussed include the dual role of nurses of acting as an agent to 2 principals namely the medical practitioner and the patient, the need for nurse leaders and educators to facilitate moral development of nursing students and qualified nurses and explore the effects of inter-professional collaboration on nurses' effectiveness in protecting patient outcomes.
- Subjects
INTENSIVE care nursing; INTERPROFESSIONAL relations; PATIENT advocacy
- Publication
Nursing in Critical Care, 2014, Vol 19, Issue 5, p219
- ISSN
1362-1017
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1111/nicc.12131