Education Collaboration between nurses and doctors


 
SIOPE/EONS/ECCO Project
Collaboration between nurses and doctors in paediatric oncology

 

 

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Multiprofessional collaboration is gaining greater attention for its outstanding capacity to deliver high-quality care. ECCO, the European CanCer Organisation, sponsored a project entitled "Collaboration between nurses and doctors in paediatric oncology", coordinated by SIOPE and in association with EONS, to enhance interaction between doctors and nurses in paediatric oncology centres.

 

The project aims to improve collaborative working between nurses and doctors in the care and management of children with cancer by establishing a programme to explore organisational development and change. Originally organised around three weekend seminars held in Europe over a period of two years, funding was once again allocated to continue this project in 2009 and it is expected to be finalised in the early part of 2010 with dissemination at relevant conferences and seminars ongoing.

 

Project objectives include the following:

  • Describe the level of integration between doctors and nurses in several areas of care
  • Improve the integration in specific areas of care
  • Promote the exchange and enrichment of theoretical and technical knowledge between professionals (doctors and nurses) in the same working environment

 

Introduction

 

At the outset, the project consisted of 15 ‘doctor and nurse’ pairs from across Europe collaborating on a broad range of topics.

This website is the result of work undertaken by teams of nurses and doctors working in the field of children’s and young people’s cancer care in Europe. We offer it to others in this field and those in other clinical fields, who would like to look more closely at multi-professional collaboration and hence reflect on how teams can work more effectively together. This resource describes an approach to the development and implementation of clinical projects as a vehicle to explore collaboration more closely.

You can either view this site as a whole or select elements that are relevant to you, through the following sections:

 

This web resource was created as a result of:

  • A funded project to explore, and improve collaboration between nurses and doctors working in children and young people’s cancer care.

 

This web resource was created for:

  • Nurses, doctors and other professions in health care.

 

This web resource was created in order to:

  • Help professionals to explore their current practice and illuminate the challenges of collaborative working;
  • Introduce readers to a programme of work aimed to facilitate collaborative working;
  • Introduce Appreciative Inquiry as a tool to enhance collaborative working;
  • To help promote the exchange of knowledge between professionals (doctors and nurses) in the same working environment and enrich their working together wherever in the world they work;

 

Integrated and coordinated caring requires active involvement and commitment from all parties as well as continuous discussion of relevant therapeutic and caring decisions. It is naive to think that such a system can develop spontaneously or through good will alone. It requires active organisational investment in professional development, which should be fostered and implemented under the umbrella of Clinical Governance and Practice Development. Neither medical nor nursing educational curricula provide an in depth knowledge of true collaborative working. Integration derives from and depends on cultural growth and is best promoted by the experience of working together while sharing common goals.

 

The European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS) is a pan-European organisation dedicated to the support and development of cancer nurses. Through individual members and national societies EONS engages in projects to help nurses develop their skills, network with each other and raise the profile of cancer nursing across Europe. For more information, check out their website.

 

As this work results from previous project work it might help you to look at the ECCO project and the Italian project, in order to situate our work and what it sought to achieve. You are permitted to use any files available here in your own projects, but please credit this resource 'SIOPE/EONS/ECCO Special Project'.

 

 

More information:

 

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