Patient safety is the highest priority when patient care is involved. Despite the discrepancies in the definition of collaboration team effort, it is important for health care professional to communicate with each other and collaborate together as one unit concerning the plan of care and goal of their patient in order to give the safe and best care possible. “Professional partnership help to dispel competition, exploitation, and frustration in the delivery of healthcare. A professional relationship is a relationship based on mutual respect to achieve a common mission while each participant lives out his or her life’s purpose” (Hood, 2014, p. 102).
Researchers have discovered that working together reduces medical errors and increases patient safety. With collaboration, different teams of health workers comes together to coordinate a patient’s care and wellbeing which reduces the risk for burn out. Fewster (2015) identified that collaboration should occur due to patient’s complex medical problems that cannot be addressed by a single provider” (Fewster, 2015, p.358). Since teamwork is focused on effective communication, patients and their families feel more satisfied with their