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Seeking the Mutual Goal: Investigating Attitude toward Collaboration between Nurses and Physicians
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HUSSEIN A.DABIS, HUSSEIN F. KAMIL, AMER A. SACHIT
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Purpose of study: Inter-professional collaboration is critical for patient care outcomes and instituting proficient communication between nurses and physicians is unescapable. So, this study aims to (i) Investigate the attitude of physicians and nurses toward inter-professional collaboration and (ii) Identify the relationship between certain demographic characteristics and the overall attitude.
Design of study: Cross-sectional descriptive design was adopted in this study.
Methods: The researcher used the Arabic version of the Jefferson Scale of Attitude toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration (JSAPNC) as a tool to achieve the purpose of the study. 236 physician and nurse were participated in the study. All nurses and physicians who have one year of experience or more were qualified to be comprised in the sample.
Findings: Results show that the nurses have more positive attitude toward physician-Nurse collaboration were he total mean score for nurses was 3.10 in comparison to 3.06 for physicians. Also, there was a statistically significant relationship between overall attitude while no relationship appeared with years of experience.
Conclusions: according to the study findings, nurses have more willingness to collaborate with physician despite the literature proven effect of hierarchical model of patient care which is followed in Iraq.
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Physician-Nurse Collaboration, Jefferson Scale, Inter-professional partnership
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2020.12.02.350
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