A call to intraprofessional alliances

In a competitive professional atmosphere, collaboration is unlikely to evolve unless nurses create an explicit commitment to work together grounded in the following requisite conditions: (1) caring as a reciprocal ethic between nurses, (2) personal knowing as a mutual reflection that integrates the “knowing” of practice and teaching, and (3) social support as a form of intraprofessional relationship. Discussion of these factors and analysis of selected examples from practice and academia provide the basis for the proposed model of intraprofessional alliances.