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Leadership is vested on the senior most physicians in the view of maintaining the professional power or hierarchy. Collaboration is a borrowed aspect from organization research in business. It is the coalescing together of actors who interact formally and informally to negotiate rules governing their relationships. In the context of healthcare, collaboration is through a process of negotiation and ground rules and an understanding of the member’s values (Dawson et al., 2007). The interactions are for the benefit of the patient receiving the …show more content…
These processes, by large are difficult to carry out at an individual level without consultations. For a complex condition such as the one presented by the patient, addressing it through collaborative professions ensure that every facet of the patient conditions is assessed for its significance in pointing out to a certain condition. The functioning of the collaborative professional practice is drawn from the interpersonal theory that seeks to elaborate the relation of different professions in an organization. The theory defines the relation of members of the team and can be extended to the functioning of healthcare practitioner functioning in the patient-care setting. The interprofessional theory underlines the principles for collaborative practice tailored to person, team and the overall organization Conceptual framework. The individual level clarifies the precise role and scope of each profession in the team. Mutual respect is achieved at the individual level under the interprofessional theory (Clark, Cott & Drinka,