For health care institutions embracing the total quality approach to management, interdisciplinary collaboration focused on the processes associated with patient care is vital. To attain a vision of effective physician-nurse collaboration, specific initiatives at all levels of the University of Alberta Hospitals have helped to transform the vision into current reality.
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