Inter professional nurses-physicians collaboration and its effects on nurse's team activities

Abstract

Inter professional collaboration and team work between nurses is crucial for improving patient outcome and quality of care. This study aims to study the inter professional collaboration between nurses-physicians and its effects on nurses team activities at Tanta University Hospitals. Data were collected by using two tools. Tool 1: Jefferson scale) 2009) of Attitude toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration andmodified byAyman El sous(2017). It Includes has six subscales that measure (a) nurse-physician collaboration (8 items) (b) doctors authority (2 items) (c) shared education (3 items) (d) Nursing role in patient care (2 items) (e) disconnecting communication between nurses-physician (4 items).(f) Nurse-physician communication (4 items) responses ranged from 1-5 score. Tool 2: measures team activities scale was used to assess nurses team activities interactions, modified by the researcher based on Thompson⁾(2007), these included 15 items. Responses was measured in five liker scale ranging from (5) all of the time to none of the time (1). Results and conclusion revealed that the total scores indicted that nurses have more positive attitudes towards nurse-physician inter professional collaboration than physicians. Also, the result reveals that 67% of nurses have high attitude level toward nurses team activities attitudes.Recommendations: Based on the results of the present study recommended that Initiating and developing mutually respectful inter-professional relationships between nurses and physicians. Also, encourage continuing in-service-training program and workshop these with a focus on teamwork and communication.