The Impact of Nurse-Physician Collaboration on Critical Care Nurses’ Autonomy

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10.2991/978-94-6463-248-4_22How to use a DOI?

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Nurse-Physician Collaboration; Autonomy; Nurses; Critical Care; Jordan

Abstract

Critical care environment is challenging where nurses and physicians should work with the highest degree of collaboration to achieve better outcomes. That comes in along with maintaining the autonomy of healthcare professionals. Nurses, the largest workforce in healthcare systems, struggle to maintain their professional autonomy. The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential effects of nurse-physician collaboration on nurses’ autonomy.

A descriptive, correlational, cross-sectional design was used. Critical nurses (N = 131) from two governmental hospitals in Jordan participated in the study through an online self-report questionnaire. The results show that moderate levels of nurse-physician collaboration (M = 4.44/7.0 SD = 1.6), and moderate levels of autonomy (M = 2.88/4.0 SD = 0.54) were perceived among critical care nurses in Jordan. The result also shows moderately positive relationship between nurse-physician collaboration and perceived autonomy among nurses (r = 0.431, p < 0.001). Working on promoting nurse-physician collaboration is found to be among the factors to enhance nurses’ autonomy which may lead to better healthcare outcomes in terms of patient care, increased nurses’ job satisfaction.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Shayma’a Abu Hattab
AU  - Mohammad Alsadi
AU  - Ghada Musleh
AU  - Nidal Eshah
AU  - Manar Bani Hani
AU  - Mohammed Albashtawy
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/10/03
TI  - The Impact of Nurse-Physician Collaboration on Critical Care Nurses’ Autonomy
BT  - Proceedings of the Second International Nursing Conference "Nursing Profession in the Current Era" (INC 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 265
EP  - 277
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-248-4_22
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6463-248-4_22
ID  - Hattab2023
ER  -