Alt Title

Nurse physician collaboration

Publication Date

1999

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Johnson, Rebecca A. (Rebecca Ann)

Degree Name

M.S. (Master of Science)

Legacy Department

Department of Nursing

LCSH

Nurse and physician--Illinois

Abstract

This cross-sectional exploratory survey aimed to identify the extent to which nurses and physicians collaborate in their work setting and how facilities encourage or discourage nurse-physician collaboration. The Collaborative Practice Scales (CPSs) were mailed to a statewide random sample; 64 registered nurses and 63 physicians participated. Descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVAs, 1-tests and correlation coefficients were used to analyze the quantitative data. Physicians who worked in the suburbs had significantly lower collaboration scores than those working in rural and urban areas (p=.034). There was a strong negative correlation between years of nurses? work experience and their degree to which they asserted professional expertise and opinion (p=.027). Physicians? age was inversely correlated with their seeking consensus with nurses on patient care (p=.045). Nurses and physicians described teamwork and joint meetings as ways in which facilities encouraged collaboration. A major impediment to collaborative practice cited by nurses and physicians was nursing administration.

Comments

Includes bibliographical references (pages [63]-66)

Extent

ix, 99 pages

Language

eng

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

Rights Statement

In Copyright

Rights Statement 2

NIU theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from Huskie Commons for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without the written permission of the authors.

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