Nurse/ Physician Collaboration and its Relation to Professional Nursing Autonomy as Perceived by Nurses

Abstract

Background: poor nurse/ physician collaboration could result in job dissatisfaction, a lack of autonomy, and higher possibility of intention to leave the job and poor health. The study aimed to identify the relation between nurse/physician collaboration and professional nursing autonomy as perceived by nurses. A descriptive correlational design was utilized to conduct this study. Setting: This study conducted at critical care units at Benha University Hospital. The sample of this study included a convenient sample contain 277 nurses. Tool: Two tools were used for data collection, the first tool: Nurse / physician collaboration scale, the second tool: Professional nursing autonomy scale. The study results: Showed that nearly two fifths (39, 4%) of nurses had low perception level regarding nurse physician collaboration and more than two fifth (46, 9%) of them had low perception level about professional nursing autonomy. The Conclusion: There was highly statistical significant positive correlation between overall nurses' perception regarding nurse/physician collaboration and overall professional nursing autonomy .The study recommended that: There is a need for further studies that explain the important factors that hindering inter professional collaboration and its negative outcomes. ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ‬ ‫ـــــــــ‬