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The last three decades have seen exponential growth in the capacity and demand for health care in the developed world. Rapid developments and sophisticated advances in science have enabled the delivery of a level of treatment and care that was previously unimaginable.

Health’s continued evolution demands a high level of adaptive capacity from the nursing and midwifery professions, to enable them to keep pace with developments. Education for nurses and midwives must produce graduates that have the capacity to practice in this dynamic environment.

These developments have brought many opportunities and positive outcomes for nursing and midwifery: university education for nurses has now existed for more than twenty years and nurses’ and midwives’ scopes of practice have expanded and advanced to unparalleled levels, as the nurse and midwife practitioners demonstrate.
Now there’s not a lot of research that I could find that examines the relationship between nurses and other health professionals. There was a bit of work that identified that there are perhaps four different areas that you could say come up when you are looking at how the different professional groups work together and this is particularly in relation to allied health professionals and nursing.
• Ideological differences: suggested at times between where the different groups are coming from and what they’re attempting to achieve.
• Unequal power relationships: which we see particularly around medicine.
• Role overlap and confusion: the issue around the grey areas around role boundaries and there is sometimes a lack of clarity around who is the most appropriate group to undertake a certain piece of work.

Now I’ve got some definitions that I’ve pulled from various places:
Nursing encompasses autonomous and collaborative care of individuals of all ages, families, groups and communities, sick or well and in all settings. Nursing includes the promotion of health, prevention of illness, and the care of ill, disabled and dying people. Advocacy, promotion of a safe environment, research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management, and education are also key nursing roles.