alaric hunter's List: Term 14: Collaboration

• Definition of COLLABORATE

  1
  : to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor
  2
  : to cooperate with or willingly assist an enemy of one's country and especially an occupying force
  3
  : to cooperate with an agency or instrumentality with which one is not immediately connected
  — col·lab·o·ra·tion \-ˌla-bə-ˈrā-shən\ noun
  — col·lab·o·ra·tive \-ˈla-bə-ˌrā-tiv, -b(ə-)rə-\ adjective or noun
  — col·lab·o·ra·tive·ly \-lē\ adverb
  — col·lab·o·ra·tor \-ˈla-bə-ˌrā-tər\ noun

  Examples of COLLABORATE

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  1. The two companies agreed to collaborate.
   
  2. He was suspected of collaborating with the occupying army.

• Collaboration is an intricate concept with multiple attributes. It is defined in a variety of ways, many of them explicitly referring to interdisciplinary collaboration (Henneman, Lee, & Cohen, 1995). Attributes identified by several nurse authors include sharing of planning, making decisions, solving problems, setting goals, assuming responsibility, working together cooperatively, communicating, and coordinating openly (Baggs & Schmitt, 1988). Related concepts, such as cooperation, joint practice, and collegiality, are often used as substitutes. They share some, but not all, of collaboration's attributes.
• ollaboration is both a process and an outcome in which shared interest or conflict that cannot be addressed by any single individual is addressed by key stakeholders. A key stakeholder is any party directly influenced by the actions others take to solve a complex problem. The collaborative process involves a synthesis of different perspectives to better understand complex problems. A collaborative outcome is the development of integrative solutions that go beyond an individual vision to a productive resolution that could not be accomplished by any single person or organization.
• This conceptualization of collaboration, which recognizes that collaboration is both a process (a series of events) and an outcome (a synthesis of different perspectives), will guide the lessons described in this article.

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