Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships

By Riane Eisler and Teddie Potter

Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Healthcare by Riane Eisler and Teddie Potter provides nurses and other healthcare workers practical tools to build a more effective, caring, and sustainable health care system and shows how to build real interprofessional teams and be full partners with patients, families, communities, and one another.

Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Healthcare provides nurses and other health care professionals tools to reexamine the current state of interdisciplinary partnerships and build a more effective, caring, and sustainable health care system, Riane Eisler, systems scientist and human rights attorney, and Teddie Potter, nurse advocate for collaborative care models and inclusivity and diversity in health care, present a structure to shift health care relationships from hierarchies of domination and isolated professions to high-functioning, collaborative teams ready to be full partners with patients, families, communities, and one another. This comprehensive text will benefit nurses by defining and illustrating full partnership in practice, education and research to improve communication and interprofessional collaboration. This book was selected as a winner of the prestigious American Journal of Nursing Book Awards in 2014, in the Professional Development and Issues category.

"Teddie Potter and Riane Eisler's collaboration on this text is inspiring, bringing together Eisler's vision for a caring economy and Potter's vision for an evolved health care system. This text is greatly needed and should serve as a template for partnership across all disciplines of health care. The old patriarchal dominator system of our current biomedical model is obviously and painfully inefficient, impractical, and ineffective. Sure, it can handle acute health care needs, but its record at handling the most pervasive problem in our world today, chronic disease, is horrendous and shameful. Further, health care's treatment of mothers is ghastly and inexcusable, with the US owning the highest infant and maternal mortality rate of all developed nations. It is long since time for change in our American health care system, and here, Eisler and Potter show us how." —Ginger Garner

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