Coordination is a vital approach aimed at optimizing organizational structure to enhance efficiency and resource utilization for the benefit of care recipients and providers. It involves collaborating with other professionals to ensure the seamless delivery of care. As a fundamental aspect of managerial function, coordination entails resolving conflicts, overcoming challenges, and attaining internal harmony to achieve common organizational objectives.

In a multidisciplinary team, professionals leverage their respective expertise to work collaboratively toward promoting the best possible health outcomes for patients and their families, who are at the core of the team. Nurses play a crucial role in facilitating coordination by understanding the unique needs of patients and their families and serving as liaisons to ensure these needs are recognized and met by the entire team.

In Japan, coordination is acknowledged as a key function of professional nursing practice. Some outcomes resulting from the coordination efforts of specialized nurses include establishing comprehensive care systems within medical teams, mitigating conflicts among healthcare professionals, fostering connections with other departments and professions essential for treatment, and expediting patient recovery and discharge.

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