Depending on who you ask the definition of collaboration received will vary. For example, Lori Fewster-Thuente (2015) found that some physicians described collaboration with nurses as if they were their assistant or a source for information on the patient (p. 356). However, when the nurses were asked they defined it as the doctors receiving their input and then coming together to create an adequate plan of action (Fewster-Thuente, 2015, p.