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Nursing

 Code of Ethics

Health and Well-being, 7. In providing care, nurses should also respect and value the knowledge and perspectives of other providers. They should actively collaborate and where possible seek appropriate consultations and referrals to other health team members in order to maximize health benefits to people.

Quality Practice Environments, 10. Nurses should collaborate with nursing colleagues and other members of the health team to advocate for health care environments conducive to ethical practice and to the health and well-being of clients in the setting. They do this in ways that are consistent with their professional role and responsibilities.[1]

Medicine

 CMA code of ethics

47. Be willing to teach and learn from medical students, residents, other colleagues and other health professionals.

 52. Collaborate with other physicians and health professionals in the care of patients and the functioning and improvement of health services. Treat your colleagues with dignity and as persons worthy of respect.[2]

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada - CanMEDS Roles - Collaborator

As Collaborators, physicians work within a healthcare team to achieve optimal patient care. Physicians work in partnership with others who are appropriately involved in the care of individuals or specific groups of patients. This is increasingly important in a modern multiprofessional environment, where the goal of patient-centred care is widely shared. Modern healthcare teams not only include a group of professionals working closely together at one site, such as a ward team, but also extended teams with a variety of perspectives and skills, in multiple locations. It is therefore essential for physicians to be able to collaborate effectively with patients, families, and an interprofessional team of expert health professionals for the provision of optimal care, education and scholarship.

Key competencies:

1. participate effectively and appropriately in an interprofessional healthcare team.

2. Effectively work with other health professionals to prevent, negotiate, and resolve interprofessional conflict.[3]

Dietitians

Canadian Oncology Nutrition Standards of Practice

Section I, Standard 4 - Membership in Interdisciplinary Teams. Oncology dietitians are members of oncology interdisciplinary health care teams.

Section II, Standard 21 - Continuity of Care. Oncology dietitians work in partnership with health care and community resources to provide continuity of nutrition services for clients and their families across the cancer continuum.

Standard 24 - Health Care Team Members.Oncology dietitians:

a. provide oncology nutrition knowledge and expertise to the health care team.

b. incorporate the role of nutrition services into the care pathways of relevant tumour site teams.

c. advocate for the provision of nutrition services within comprehensive cancer care.

d. act as client advocates. "[CONSoP

Health Canada

Interprofessional Education for Collaborative  Patient-Centred Practice

Collaborative patient-centered practice is designed to promote the active participation of several health care disciplines and professions. It enhances patient-, family-, and community-centred goals and values, provides mechanisms for continuous communication among health care providers, optimizes staff participation in clinical decision making (within and across disciplines), and fosters respect for the contributions of all providers. There is growing consensus that interprofessional collaborative patient-centered practice - across all health sectors and along the continuum of care - will contribute to the following:

improved population health / patient care;improved access to health care;improved recruitment and retention of health care providers;improved patient safety and communication among health care providers;more efficient and effective employment of health human resources; andimproved satisfaction among patients and health care providers."[4]