Key words: Nurse-Doctor Relationship, Nurses’ Perception, attitude
Nurses and doctors are educated separately, yet nurses and doctors are expected to know how to collaborate effectively towards improving patient outcomes. This is a descriptive cross-sectional study to determine the nurses’ perception and attitude toward nurse-doctor relationship in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC). Nurses’ perception onto the overall significance of nurse-doctor relationship at hospital is satisfied resulted 81.5% (n=119). The result showed gender significantly influence on the nurses’ perception. There was a significant different between level of education and with working experience nurses’ attitude. The result in this current study showed
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At the same time, collaboration which played an important role as a relationship between this both professions involved (Sayed& Sleem 2011). However, doctors and nurses have a complicated relationship over the year, which were affected by social status, gender, power and perspectives 9. In addition, the power between nurses and doctors affected toward nurse-doctor relationship throughout 1970-1980s (McKay & Narasimhan (2012). Studies suggest that there is a serious need to promote positive changes toward inter professional collaboration between doctors and nurses improve patient outcomes and increase nurses’ job satisfaction2,3,4(Bartholomew 2008).. Nevertheless, the nurse-doctor relationship had been improved by 1990s. It is obviously shown when the nurses are able to challenge the doctors, discuss together, changing information and gain more …show more content…
The revolution on nurse-doctor relationship was bringing the gap between both professions. In awkward situation, nurses are label with insufficient in knowledge and unable to critical thinking an involvement in decision making12(Aghamolaei et al. 2012).. However, Johnson (2012) reported that communication failed is one of the reason between nurses and doctor which is affect patient care. Nurses and doctors role is to deliver their services toward community, to make some collaboration, communication is important to exchange the information. Good communication will prevents from misunderstanding, conflicts and mistakes between nurses and doctors. Automatically, quality of care is harmless. In addition, positive relationship between nurses and doctors must be continuously constant in clinical setting. Di Giulio et al. (2013) stated that both of this profession has a low commitment and passions in working area were often afflicted by busy conditions. This situation will contribute become stressed with a clinical workloads. Moreover, some courses are important which involving nurse and doctor to create a good collaboration and communication to encourage their relationship become success especially amongst the junior nurses who are lack in experience, at least they have knowledge to manage the next hurdle (Clarke et al.
Often time, nurses has been viewed by patients, their family members and the medical team as basic emotional care givers, pill crushers or cart pullers and not as healthcare professionals who are more interesting in health promotion, disease prevention and better patient outcomes. They also often forget the emotional, physical, mental, and caring part that is involved with the profession. And to make matters worse, nurses are continued to be viewed as a threat by doctors more than ever before especially with the opening of Nurse Practitioners programs.
Nurses help patients with their physical needs with details, explain the complex steps of medical treatment, communicate with doctors to share patients’ health conditions and proper treatments, and give emotional support to patients in stressful situations. There are certain limitations that nurses have in decision makings because doctors obtain the most power in patients’ medical clinics. However, nurses are more friendly, helpful, and suffering for patients. Lastly, experienced nurses can make a better choice for the patients over young and un-experience
“Communication is the heart of nursing… your ability to use your growing knowledge and yourself as an instrument of care and caring and compassion” (Koerner, 2010, as cited in Balzer-Riley, 2012, p. 2). The knowledge base which Koerner is referring to includes important concepts such as communication, assertiveness, responsibility and caring (Balzer-Riley, 2012). Furthermore, communication is complex. It includes communication with patients, patient families, doctors, co-workers, nurse managers and many others. Due to those concepts and the variety of people involved, barriers and issues are present. Knowing how to communicate efficiently can be difficult.
Not only is professional communication important in the portrayal of a good nursing image and behaviour, it also plays a vital role in patient care and health outcomes. The ANMC standards serve as a good guidance on the need to establish therapeutic relationship through effective communication. As nurses spend relatively more time with patients, they play a significant role in bridging a patient and doctor. Hence, it is would help for nurses to constantly hone their communication skills through experience over time.
To attain this goal, nurses must work in collaboration with other members of the health care team. To improve efficiency, the health care environment must foster the development of collaborative relations among health care professionals. Trust, open communication, commitment, and shared goals must be present to support collaborative relations and effective teamwork. Health care organizations continue to place a greater demand on health care professionals while often working with limited resources. In a recent study focused on determining if there was a current or impending shortage of nurses in care settings throughout the United States, 81% of the 178 hospitals sampled indicated they have or are an... ...
Profession of Nursing is always regards as a complex, dynamic and noble. The nursing profession requires many things such as hard work, a vast knowledge, excellent communication skills, and a passion for the noble profession. All these qualities are needed to be an effective nurse. Today, nurses are living in a world of ever changing field of medicine .The present patient statistics poses, nurses are expected to take responsibility of accomplishing the requirements. The requirement for excellent nursing skills is added as well as well-formed skills in different aspect. Because of the high demand in excellent nursing care, the IOM have declared the recommendations for the future of nursing.
It is essential for a nurse to be able to demonstrate and practice professional communication skills, provision of information and handover to provide a holistic approach to treating and caring for patients. Professional communication skills not only allows the nurse to provide different methods and tactics to communicate with patients of different needs and ages, but it enables the nurse to understand and to give the best possible care and outcome for the patient. Provision of information and handover is another major point for nurses and relates to professional communication. Nurses need to be able to get a detailed diagnosis from the patient through communication, and therefore allows for the nurse to handover vital information to other doctors or nurses who take over to provide the correct and best possible treatments and care. The nursing profession requires a nurse to uphold professional communication, provision of information and handover in order to care for the patient with the right treatment, and to provide the best health outcome.
This workload sometimes makes the nurse taking care of the patient overwhelmed and stressed because he/she feels they are the only one involved in the patients care. Nursing toady allows for collaboration with other disciplines to provide optimal care for the patient involved, other staff are added to the health care team reducing the work load on the primary nurse. The RN is not the only one providing care for the patients assigned but he/she remains the primary nurse and is able to make and change the patients plan of care according to their diagnosis. According to Bayton, (2015) Primary nursing model of care delivery is great for building a nurse patient relationship.” This article shows how the implementation of primary care nursing model promotes an ongoing communication between the patient, family and staff involved in the patients care. The patient is always informed of who their nurse would be for the day by the implementation of white boards in the patients rooms. The patent could build a rapport with the staff because they knew who their nurse was going to be for the day.
This paper is a literature review of the results of three empirical studies on trust within the nurse–patient relationship. Studies implemented a descriptive qualitative design, and studies used quantitative research, and phenomenological approach method. The context of most quantitative studies was nurse caring behaviors, whereas most qualitative studies focused on trust in the nurse–patient relationship. The quantitative studies used a descriptive design, while qualitative methods included the phenomenological approach, Data collection was mainly by questionnaires or interviews. Evidence from this review suggests that the development of trust is a relational phenomenon, and a process, during which trust could be broken and re-established. Nurses’ professional competencies and interpersonal caring attributes were important in developing trust; however, various factors may hinder the trusting relationship.
Their skill, knowledge, and love of their occupation help them to exceed in everything they do. Moving towards a required doctorate degree will open up many doors for nurse practitioners, as they will be seen as a more professional occupation. The role of every health care member is essential for a patient, and nurse practitioners are able to play a huge role in each case by providing assistance in diagnosing and treating patients, as well as researching different ways to help them. Having a nurse practitioner to help educate the patient’s family is so important because it allows the family to feel more involved with their loved one’s care. The way nurses and nurse practitioner’s follow the code of ethics and standards of practice give them the characteristics of honesty and loyalty, and without both of them, key parts of the patient’s care would be
A very important concept that needs to be implemented world-wide is collaboration. Collaboration can be defined as “working with other individuals or groups to achieve a common goal. It differs from cooperation which involves groups working together to achieve their own individual goals’’ (Tomajan, 2012). This concept is critical in making the nursing image as clear and accurate as possible while also properly representing the profession. Worldwide, if nurses can represent themselves in a particular way, having the same ideals, morals, and knowledge, there would be little room for people to criticize the profession. Collaborating also allows for the formation of new ideas and discoveries, strengthening the knowledge of nurses and creating the opportunity for more authority. The entire profession as a whole need to help everyone understand what nurses really do for patients. Nurses are the invisible hand behind the success in every hospital or health-care facility. From a quick visit to the doctors to an emergency room visit, the ones the patients interact with and grow a relationship with are the nurses. The nurses know the ins and outs of every patient and have the direct connection with the patient along with tremendous knowledge and skills. This needs to be addressed in the media rather than challenging the nursing image. Giving
Communication in the nursing practice and in healthcare is important because when talking with patients, their families, and staff, the nurse and the nursing student needs to be able to efficiently express the information that they want the other person to understand. “Verbal communication is a primary way of transmitting vital information concerning patient issues in hospital settings” (Raica, 2009, para. 1). When proper communication skills are lacking in nursing practice, the chances of errors and risks to the patient’s safety increases. One crucial aspect of communication that affects the patient care outcome is how the nurse and the nursing student interacts and communicates with the physicians and other staff members. If the nurse is not clear and concise when relaying patient information to other members of the healthcare team the patient care may be below the expected quality.
Introduction The introduction paragraph gives information on communication and the impact that it has on patient-nurse relationships. It gives the reader an understanding of what is involved in true communication and how it is a fundamental part of nursing and the skills all nurses need. It leads those interested in delivering quality nursing to read on. Showing us the significance that communication makes in the perception of the quality of care that patient perceives they received based not on the care it’s self but on the patient-nurse communication.. Purpose/Problem/Hypothesis
Nurses play a critical role on patient’s health; the relationship that a nurse and patient develop can in some cases be life altering. Applying these characteristics and being a servant leader to patients establishes life long impressions and makes critical difference in treatment allowing for optimal care to be received. Always listen to patients concerns, be empathetic in their concerns, and help while committing to their personal growth, one never knows whom they are actually a leader for. Some individuals look up to nurses and count
The medical field is expanding and nurses are in high demand. There are different jobs in the medical that aim to help individuals in different ways. In particular, nursing is a difficult field to work in as nurses work closely with the patients. Nurses aim to prevent illness, promote health, and restore health and well being. Therefore, there are some qualities that make a good nurse, such as communication skills, respect, patience, honesty. All of theses qualities encompass caring in nursing. In particular, caring is the most important because it is the how nurses give individualized care.