title: The need for predictability in coordination of ventilator treatment of newborn infants--a qualitative study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  New strategies for interprofessional collaboration are needed to achieve best practice in the care of ventilated newborns. This study explores what physicians and nurses believe to be important to improve collaboration during ventilator treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Qualitative data collected from one focus group were analysed using Gittell's theory of relational coordination.
  
  
  RESULTS
  To optimise communication about and coordination of ventilator treatment, six strategies were needed: (1) a pathway toward the goal for each newborn, (2) regular meetings, (3) accurate communication following an established pattern in the rounds conference, (4) collaboration to improve interprofessional level of knowledge, (5) courage to communicate one's own point of view, and (6) flexible responsibility in extubation situations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  By identifying weak areas in collaboration, nurses and physicians were inspired to suggest and discuss concrete improvements of work practices in the neonatal intensive care unit. Nurses and physicians can coordinate ventilator treatment by using a pathway and at the same time enhance nurses' involvement and responsibility in order to increase the flexibility of job boundaries, allowing the professions to cover for each other's work.
authors.affiliation: Lovisenberg Deaconal University College, Oslo, Norway; Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Nedre Ullevål 9, Stjerneblokka, 0850 Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: m.t.solberg@medisin.uio.no.
authors.forename: Marianne Trygg
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Solberg
authors.affiliation: Department of Neonatal Intensive Care, Women's and Children's Division, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway; Institute of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: t.w.r.hansen@medisin.uio.no.
authors.forename: Thor Willy R
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Hansen
authors.affiliation: Department of Nursing Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Nedre Ullevål 9, Stjerneblokka, 0850 Oslo, Norway. Electronic address: i.t.bjork@medisin.uio.no.
authors.forename: Ida Torunn
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Bjørk
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002985:Clinical Protocols; D003142:Communication; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D064648:Critical Care Nursing; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D017283:Neonatal Nursing; D009664:Norway; D009726:Nurses; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010820:Physicians; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000451:nursing*
keywords: Collaboration; Communication; Mechanical ventilation; Neonatal intensive care unit; Quality of care