Attitudes of nurses and physicians towards nurse-physician collaboration in northwest Ethiopia: a hospital based cross-sectional study

Amsalu, Eden; Boru, Brihanu; Getahun, Firehiwot; Tulu, Begna

doi:10.1186/s12912-014-0037-7

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“…(12) An environment in which physicians and nurses communicate effectively and where the teamwork favors positive outcomes of care deliver to patients and relatives reduces the tensions and dissatisfactions deriving from the work environment and reduces mental illness among the workers. (13)(14) When the nurses lack autonomy in their work environment, they present feelings of suffering, anguish, dissatisfaction, stress and mental health problems. Thus, they tend towards the use of alcohol, sedatives and other drugs to resist those situations.…”

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Ambiente ocupacional e o consumo de substâncias psicoativas entre enfermeiros

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Objective: To analyze the relation between the work environment and psychoactive substance consumption among hospital nurses. Methods: Cross-sectional and descriptive study, involving nurses from three public hospitals in a city in the South of Brazil, being two medium-complexity and one high-complexity institution. The study population consisted of 221 nurses. Based on this figure, the stratified sample size was calculated, considering a 50% proportion, 95% confidence level and 5% maximum error, resulting in a minimum number of 175 participants. Through proportional stratification per institution, a minimum of 103 high-complexity nurses was defined, as well as 36 nurses from each medium-complexity institution. The following inclusion criteria were adopted: having worked at the institution for at least one year and not being on leave. The data were collected between October 2015 and April 2016. In the data collection, sociodemographic and occupational information, the Nursing Work Index -Revised and the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test. The data were analyzed in the software Statistical Package for Social Sciences, version 20.0. Initially, the normality was verified by means of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. Descriptive analyses were developed by absolute and relative frequencies for the categorical variables; and medians and dispersion measures for the numerical variables. Results: Alcohol, tobacco and sedatives were the most consumed substances. The monthly income was positively correlated with alcohol consumption among nurses at the medium-complexity hospitals (p=0.01). At the high-complexity hospital, alcohol consumption was negatively correlated with the physician-nurse index (p=0.03). Autonomy, physician-nurse index and organizational support were negatively correlated with the use of sedatives (p<0.01; p<0.01; p=0.02, respectively). Conclusion: The more negative the nurse's work environment, mainly in the relation with physicians, organizational support and autonomy, the greater the consumption of psychoactive substances. ResumoObjetivo: Analisar a relação entre o ambiente de trabalho e o consumo de substâncias psicoativas entre enfermeiros hospitalares. Métodos: Estudo transversal e descritivo, realizado com enfermeiros de três instituições hospitalares públicas localizados em um município da Região Sul do Brasil, sendo duas de média complexidade e uma de alta complexidade. A população deste estudo foi composta por 221 enfermeiros. Com base nesse número, calculou-se o tamanho amostral por estratos, considerando-se a proporção de 50%, nível de confiança de 95% e erro máximo de 5%, o que resultou no número mínimo de 175 participantes. Mediante a estratificação proporcional por instituição definiu-se o mínimo de 103 enfermeiros da alta complexidade e 36 de cada instituição de média complexidade. Adotou-se como critérios de inclusão: trabalhar na instituição há pelo menos um ano e não estar afastado por licença. A coleta de dados foi realizada entre outubro de 2015 e abril de 2...

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“…Another study conducted in Iran indicated that near half (48%) of nurses reported their remarks concerning the patient's health are ignored by physicians [12]. In Ethiopia, a study conducted at Felegehiwot and Gondar referral hospitals showed that more than one-third of nurses (41%) rate their collaboration as poor and only (3%) of nurses rate it as excellent [13].…”

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“…Like most developing countries, Ethiopia has inadequate healthcare resources but with a vast healthcare needs and with hospitals which are congested with patients placing tremendous pressure and heavy workload to the health care providers [13]. Apart from the government's effort to increase the number and quality of healthcare institutions, it is imperative to have a positive collaboration of nurses and midwives with physician though is not assessed adequately.…”

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Inter-professional collaboration of nurses and midwives with physicians and associated factors in Jimma University specialized teaching hospital, Jimma, south West Ethiopia, 2019: cross sectional study

2020

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Background: Inter-professional collaboration between professionals is crucial in health care where most of the activities are undertaken in a team. One of these collaborations is the collaboration of nurses and midwives with physicians. The main objective of this study was to assess interprofessional collaboration of nurses and midwives with physicians and associated factors at Jimma University specialized teaching hospital from March 20 to April 8, 2019. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted among 358 nurses and 52 midwives who are working in Jimma University Specialized teaching hospital using a structured self-administered questionnaire. Study units were selected by simple random sampling using the lottery method. The result was summarized using descriptive statistics and statements. The level of significance was set at a p < 0.05. Result: The overall response rate was 99.76%. Around two-third, 66.7% (n = 273) of participants had a satisfactory inter-professional collaboration with physicians and 238 (58.2%) had good relationship with physicians. Again 234 (57.2%) of participants had a favorable attitude towards interprofessional collaboration with physicians. Moreover, statistical significance was obtained on the relationship of participants with physicians (p = 0.000), the experience of disruptive behavior (p = 0.000), attitude towards interprofessional collaboration with physicians (p = 0.000) and occupational status (p = 0.001). Conclusion: The majority of the participants had a satisfactory inter-professional collaboration with physicians and four of the many possible factors under consideration were finally found statistically significant. Again, it was revealed that nurses and midwives did not significantly differ in their inter-professional collaboration with physicians.

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“…A vicious cycle is in evidence: lack of motivation or access to upto-date diabetes information results in poor and outdated knowledge, attitude and practices, which perhaps are the source of the physicians' poor regard for nurses' knowledge which so demotivated some nurses (Amsalu, Boru, Getahun, & Tulu, 2014). Lack of effective multidisciplinary collaboration, and disrespect from physicians, is clearly a disincentive to nurses to contribute to case discussions, possibly to further diabetes education (Burgess & Purkis, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%