Working in partnership with patients and carers
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Evidence & Practice    

Working in partnership with patients and carers

Lesley Baillie Florence Nightingale Foundation chair of clinical nursing practice, School of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University and University College Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, England

Health policy and healthcare professional guidelines promote patient and carer involvement, which includes working in partnership with service users in all aspects of healthcare provision, research and education. This article explores the expectations for nurses to work in partnership with patients and carers, examines the definitions and theories of working in partnership and related concepts, as well as considering examples of partnership working in nursing practice.

Nursing Standard. doi: 10.7748/ns.2016.e10527

Correspondence

baillil2@lsbu.ac.uk

Peer review

This article has been subject to external double-blind peer review and checked for plagiarism using automated software

Received: 14 April 2016

Accepted: 05 September 2016

Published online: 22 November 2016

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