title: Partnerships identified within primary health care literature.
abstract: Primary health care promotes partnership in nursing. The purpose of this study was to delineate defining characteristics of partnerships within primary health care and to identify strategies to facilitate the development of these partnerships. Findings from this integrative review of the literature include the development of a partnership framework that emerged from the meanings inherent in the prefixes of words used to describe "multi", "inter", and "intra" partnerships. Also, the findings revealed characteristics of partner expectations, attributes of active and passive participation, and strategies to foster, and barriers to hinder, active participation. Using the developed partnership framework, implications for practice, education, and research have been discerned.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Nursing, University of New Brunswick, P. O. Box 4400, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5A3. macintsh@unb.ca
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: MacIntosh
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: McCormack
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007587:Job Description; D016294:Models, Nursing; D017146:Models, Organizational; D008960:Models, Psychological; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015399:Nursing Research; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012380:Role; D012718:Set, Psychology