An Effective Card Game for Conflict Resolution Between Nurses and Patients

Abstract

According to Okada [11], game theory is used to analyze the behaviors and decisions of multiple players and can serve as a strategy for identifying confrontations and optimal solutions. The structure of games is defined as sharing the basic and common characteristics of society. Game theory includes several frameworks, such as "choice and decision-making, strategy, Nash equilibrium, conflict and cooperation, moral hazards, negotiations, group formation, and sharing of benefits. "Integrating these various methodologies, game theory presupposes players to be autonomous decision-makers; it is an academic discipline that aims to form a better society based on cooperation among individuals [12,13].Based on these interpretations, the authors considered it preferable to utilize game theory to respond to conflict between nurses and patients by adding the concept of communication to the "conflict and cooperation" framework. While playing the devised game, the two parties have the opportunity to assert their own opinions while respecting each other's ideas, even amid conflict. Thus, the authors devised a game that allows players to learn to perceive the thoughts of others from amid simulated conflict through training and assert oneself while accepting the opinions of others. For this purpose, the authors utilized a card game because in such face-to-face encounters, people can work together to find effective solutions for both parties by expressing their emotions in real-time within the framework of a game that is easy to play.