Webthe sunnybrook core competencies for interprofessional team collaboration provide a framework to guide hospitals toward advancing. Webthe authors suggest that less stereotyping and greater collaboration in health care delivery teams, in turn, could result in improved outcomes, such as greater. Webinterprofessional collaboration is understood to improve efficiencies and quality of care but is associated with challenges such as professionals' differing routines, knowledge, and. Webcollaboration among health care teams may improve patient education and patient engagement in their care, including behavioral changes such as information. Webthere is a strong belief that effectiveness of healthcare teams can be improved by team interventions, as a wide range of studies have shown a positive effect. Webnurse leaders should implement initiatives to improve interprofessional relationships and reduce traditional, and often linear, authority gradients. We recommend that nurse. Webthese findings challenge the idea that equal balance should always be the goal of power sharing in collaborative interdisciplinary groups and offer a more. Webwe focus on the research question: In what ways and why do healthcare professionals contribute to interprofessional collaboration? In doing so, we also focus.