title: Collaborative management. A nursing practice model.
abstract: The authors discuss an innovative, collaborative management model intended to promote optimal patient care, personal and professional nurse satisfaction, and cost-effectiveness. The model delineates the role components of the nurse manager, the clinical nurse specialist, and the clinical nurse. Although the model is applied to a high-risk antenatal unit, staff members and managers can easily adapt the model to any unit.
authors.affiliation: Labor and Delivery Unit, Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Caruso
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Payne
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D000078329:Workforce