This presupposes adequate communication between the nursing staff within a care unit, and cooperation between different professions and units in the nursing home.
Work overload, workflow interruptions, time pressure, conflicting demands, limited control of work, lack of participation, problems with cooperation between various professions involved in patient care, poor leadership, and low social support have been identified as critical work conditions [ 2, 4, 5].
Since companion animal ownership has psychologic and physiologic benefits, this type of collaboration and cooperation between the 2 professions would be invaluable to patients.
Additionally, Nominal Groups will be performed with professionals belonging to intervention centres, in order to identify the successes, strengths, weaknesses and shortcomings of the process, as well as experiences concerning its usefulness, and difficulties and barriers with respect to the cooperation between researchers and clinicians and between professions within the centres.
This article describes the challenges a research team experienced recruiting physicians within a randomised controlled trial about leg ulcer care that seeks to foster the cooperation between the medical and nursing professions.
Although staff generally felt there was a good level of cooperation within professions (e.g. anaesthetists supporting each other), weak communication and coordination between professions, teams, different wards or departments was frequently described.
Diagnosis, treatment, and research regarding orphan diseases need a close cooperation between specialists of different medical and social professions.
The relationship between professions and the state is one of the most important issues in the sociology of professions.
