and procedures that foster both the inclusion of patients
and family members as active members of the healthcare
team and collaborative partnerships with providers
and provider organizations.The future
healthcare system is based on the core concept of individuals
taking ultimate responsibility for their
healthcare decision making.Therefore, clinicians and
executives can help shift the care paradigm by adopting
the new Interactive Care Model (ICM) (described
below) and developing key competencies for NMs to
help transform the patient-provider relationship to
one of true partnership.