Collaboration Across the Disciplines in Health Care

Invited esteemed professionals from public health, medicine, nursing, health services and administration, and other areas, present their diverse perspectives on collaboration across the spectrum of the health care fields in this interesting and timely text. With a ‘student centered’ approach (also known as ‘learning-centered’), Collaboration Across the Disciplines in Health Care is accompanied by companion exercises, games and simulations, creating a thought-provoking learning experience.

IntroductionPreface
IntroductionContributors
IntroductionFigure List
IntroductionEditor Biographies
IntroductionAuthor Biographies and Chapter Previews
ChapterChapter 1: The Healthcare Team Members: Who Are They and What Do They Do?
ChapterChapter 2: The Healthcare Interdisciplinary Context: A Focus on the "Microsystem" Context
ChapterChapter 3: Leadership Development in the Interdisciplinary Context
ChapterChapter 4: Fostering Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Healthcare Organizations
ChapterChapter 5: Doctors Are From Mars, Patients Are From Venus
ChapterChapter 6: Interprofessional Collaboration: A Nursing Perspective
ChapterChapter 7: Is Physician Collaboration an Oxymoron? Understanding and Enhancing Physician Engagement in Healthcare Teams
ChapterChapter 8: Management and Administration of Collaborative Models
ChapterChapter 9: Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Healthcare Perspectives
ChapterChapter 10: Behavioral Health
ChapterChapter 11: Ancillary Services: Health Professions Education, Nutrition, and Dietetics
ChapterChapter 12: Medicine and the Law: The Legal Perspective
ChapterChapter 13: Collaboration in Ambulatory Care: Integrating the Practitioners of Medicine Into the Practice of Medicine
ChapterChapter 14: Collaboration in Healthcare Marketing and Business Development
ChapterChapter 15: The Forest and the Trees: An Organizational Psychologist's Perspective on Collaborating Across the Disciplines in Health Care