COLLABORATIVE MODELS

Collaborative Model of Care The CMNH supports the following definition of collaboration developed by Health Canada; “Collaborative patient-centred practice is designed to promote the active participation of each discipline in providing quality patient care. It enhances patient and family-centred goals and values, provides mechanisms for continuous communication among care givers, optimizes staff participation in clinical decision making (within and across disciplines), and fosters respect for the contributions of all disciplines."

In addition, in Ontario in 2000, a conference titled The Future of Maternity and Newborn Care in Canada issued a statement of principles and recommendations, which included;

1. that all health care providers must have valued roles in perinatal health (including anaesthesiology, family medicine, maternal-fetal medicine/obstetrics, midwifery, pediatrics, neonatology and nursing).
2. this is achieved through: mutual respect, collaboration and trust existing among caregivers; transdisciplinary team-based care existing in all practice settings.