Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Health Care

2014 AJN Award Recipient

Transforming Interprofessional Partnerships: A New Framework for Nursing and Partnership-Based Health Care provides nurses and other health care professionals tools to reexamine the current state of interdisciplinary partnerships in order to build a more effective, caring, and sustainable health care system. This comprehensive text will benefit nurses by defining and illustrating full partnership in practice, education, and research in order to improve communication and interprofessional collaboration.

Riane Eisler, JD, PhD(h), is founder and president of the Center for Partnership Studies and teaches in the leadership graduate program at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is internationally known for her contributions as a systems scientist, attorney working for the human rights of women and children, and author of several books including The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, now in 25 foreign editions, and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. Eisler has written over 300 articles and has received numerous awards including the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's 2009 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. A survivor of the holocaust, Riane has been described as a cultural historian and an evolutionary theorist. She consults for businesses and governments on practical applications of the partnership model introduced in her work and keynotes at conferences, universities, and corporations internationally. <P> Teddie M. Potter, PhD, RN, is a clinical associate professor and coordinator of the Doctor of Nursing Practice in Health Innovation and Leadership and Director of Inclusivity and Diversity at the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota. A practicing nurse for over 30 years, Potter is internationally known for her collaborative care models and speaks on inclusivity and diversity in health care and the partnership paradigm in nursing education, practice, and research.