Nursing and Working with Other People

Ruth Clemow is Departmental Manager, Adult Health at Buckinghamshire New University. She is also Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Health Science and Practice) Subject Advisor and Key Contact for Nursing and Interprofessional Education. She has many years of varied experience in acute and community settings as a registered nurse and has worked in Higher Education since 2000. Benny Goodman is now an independent scholar having retired from his position as lecturer in Adult Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Plymouth University. He qualified as a Registered General Nurse in the 1980′s following graduation with a BSc Sociology and Politics. He writes on topics such as sustainability, climate change and health but always within a socio-political framework. He is author and co-author of two other Learning Matters books: Collaborative Practice and Sociology and Psychology in Nursing. Current interests include the socio-political role of the nurse.

Introduction
What do we mean by ′working with other people′?
The context: history and policy
The elements of working together: structure, process and culture
Interprofessional working: the doctor-nurse relationship and collaborative practice
Shared and interprofessional learning
Teamwork
Understanding people, understanding yourself