title: Nurse to nurse: consultation in geriatric nursing practice.
abstract: The complexity of clients in today's health care environment requires a close, collaborative working relationship among disciplines. However, nurses, who are often key decision-makers in the planning, management, and movement of clients throughout the health care system, may not use the expertise of their best allies: nurses in other settings, institutions, and specialty areas. Many care problems-at home or in the hospital, nursing home, or rehabilitation center-can be effectively resolved by nurse-to-nurse consultation. The importance and benefit of nurses relying on their own profession to answer nursing care questions are illustrated with vignettes that apply a model of consultation to the practice of geriatric nursing.
authors.affiliation: Abbe Center for Community Mental Health, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Horras
authors.forename: K C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Buckwalter
mesh_terms: D003253:Consultants; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D013041:Specialties, Nursing