CU collaboration included in new book

CU colleagues recently coauthored a chapter titled “Patient and Family-Centered Care and the Interprofessional Team” in the book “Person and Family-Centered Care” by  J. Barnsteiner, J Disch and M.K. Walton.

The chapter authors are College of Nursing’s Gail Armstrong, associate professor; Amy Barton, associate dean for Clinical and Community Affairs; Wesley Nuffer, assistant professor, assistant director of Experiential Programs, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences; and former CU School of Medicine colleague Lynne Yancey.

To illustrate the interprofessional team concept, the authors begin their chapter discussing a 70-year-old patient with multiple health conditions. Overall, the book examines the patient as a person first, and that the person is part of a family, however defined by the individual. The book offers a practical guide to help nurses and other clinicians engage individuals and their families as partners in the care process.