Nurse-Physician Relationsip: How if affects patient care

Running Head : NURSE-PHYSICIAN RELATIONSHIP

How Nurse-Physician Relationship Affects Patient Care

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Introduction

The relationship between nurses and physicians is very vital component for the provision of high quality health care to patients . Nurses have told their stories on how they assess , perceive and develop high quality relationships with physicians with the goal of providing quality health care to patients . Almost all clinical physicians experiences the five types of nurse- physician relationships identified from studies Accordingly , 334 nurse managers , 721 staff nurses , 229

physicians , 46 other health professionals and 29 hospital and nurse administrators were interviewed in four interview studies that were done . As a result , they not only described the types of relationships that exist between nurses and physicians but also the reasons as to why good nurse-physician relationships are every vital in a hospital setup for the purposes of provision of quality health care to patients

How Nurse-Physician Relationship Affects Patient Care

High quality nurse-physician relationship is considered to be one of the three cornerstones of an excellent working condition as well as environment in the hospital . The main problem is that the good relationship between physicians and nurses is mainly a concern of the nurses than physicians and these relationships often leads to quality health care that is usually rated higher by physicians than by nurses HYPERLINK "http /www .questia .com /SM .qst ?act adv contributors Martha 20J 20Greenb erg dcontributors Martha 20J 20Greenberg " Greenberg , 2005 Accordingly , Physician-patient relationship is important since it affect...