Activities conflicting with their understanding of professional responsibilities lead to collaborative failures in student teams [ 10].
Collaborative failures in student teams are often related to the fact that not all professions are involved or when activities go against the individuals' understanding of their professional responsibilities [ 10, 17].
"Poor" relationships among collaborative partners have been identified in prior studies as one reason for collaboration failure (Timmons 1994).
However, a recent study found that participation in a quality improvement collaborative for heart failure was associated with better communication, knowledge, and lower health care use, but not with better QOL [ 37].
In terms of the internal script reconfiguration principle, learners who experienced their selected internal collaboration scripts producing expectation failures during collaborative solving of ill-structured problems were more likely to reconfigure their internal collaboration script, thereby enabling them to better solve ensuing ill-structured problems.
No matter what form of collaboration is in place, a number of factors can influence the functioning or failure of collaborative practice between NPs and MPs.
An interesting open question concerns how learning environments can be designed to more systematically enable productive failure in collaborative learning without withholding necessary guidance.
However, despite the emphasis on team training and the implementation of team behavior [ 2, 3] over the past decade and, more recently, the well-documented benefits of interprofessional education and interprofessional collaborative practice [ 9], communication failure between healthcare team members remains a frequent cause of patient harm [ 10].
The current situation translates into a web of unacceptable, ongoing missed opportunities such as failure to maximize collaborative disease surveillance, VCT, adherence support, infection control, and positive prevention.
Systematic understanding of the collaborative response to ongoing cascading failures is required for responders to effectively prepare response teams and arrange disruption response.
