Association between nurse-physician collaboration and patient outcomes in three intensive care units
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of collaboration between intensive care unit (ICU) physicians and nurses and patient outcome.
DESIGN: Prospective, descriptive, correlational study using self-report instruments.
SETTINGS: A community teaching hospital medical ICU, a university teaching hospital surgical ICU, and a community non-teaching hospital mixed ICU, all in upstate New York.
SUBJECTS: Ninety-seven attending physicians, 63 resident physicians, and 162 staff nurses.
Nurses' and resident physicians' perceptions of the process of collaboration in an MICU
Ten intensive care unit nurses and 10 medical resident physicians were interviewed to compare their perceptions of the process of nurse-physician collaboration. The grounded theory method for concept development recommended by Strauss and Corbin (1990) was used. The core of the process of collaboration for both groups was working together.
Nurse-physician collaboration and satisfaction with the decision-making process in three critical care units
OBJECTIVE: To assess and compare levels of nurse-physician collaboration and satisfaction with the decision-making process as reported by critical care nurses, resident physicians (residents), and attending physicians (attendings) in making decisions to transfer individual patients out of the critical care unit, and to assess if satisfaction predicts nurse retention.
DESIGN: Longitudinal descriptive correlational study using self-reporting instruments.
Development of an instrument to measure collaboration and satisfaction about care decisions
The psychometric assessment of a new instrument for measurement of the construct of nurse-physician collaboration in making specific patient care decisions. Collaboration and Satisfaction About Care Decisions (CSACD), is reported. Content validity for the tool was supported by literature review, nurse and physician experts, and potential subjects. In a pilot study 58 neonatal intensive care nurses' and resident physicians' responses showed variance; alpha reliability of the collaboration questions was 0.95.
The association between interdisciplinary collaboration and patient outcomes in a medical intensive care
We prospectively studied the relationship between interdisciplinary collaboration and patient outcomes in the medical intensive care unit (MICU) using nurses' and residents' reports of amount of collaboration involved in making decisions about transferring patients from the MICU to a unit with a less intense level of care. Either readmission to the MICU or death was considered a negative patient outcome. Nurses' reports of collaboration were significantly (p = 0.02) and positively associated with patient outcome, controlling for severity of illness.
ICU nurse-physician collaboration & nursing satisfaction
ICU nurses who are satisfied with their work are more likely to be retained, leading to institutional cost savings. In this study, higher levels of nurse-physician collaboration in making decisions about patient care were found to be very important to nurses' satisfaction.
Interprofessional Education: What is it and Why do we do it?
The phrases interprofessional education (IPE), interprofessional practice (IPP), and interprofessional collaboration (IPC) are sweeping through health professions education and health care practice, but what exactly does it all mean?
This short video defines interprofessional education and interprofessional health care, providing an overview of key historical events that have contributed to a widespread and growing adoption of IPE, IPP and IPC.
Stories from Interprofessional Practice
Practitioners from medicine, law, nursing and pharmacy share stories about interprofessional health care in practice. These short video stories were shown during the April 4, 2012 IPEP Disabilities Exercise at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center. Students from medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, law and ASU social work participated in the two-hour exercise.
Interprofessional Education & Practice at University of Arizona
An overview and history of Interprofessional Education & Practice (IPEP) at the University of Arizona, including comments from the Deans of the four health sciences colleges - Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing and Public Health. The video was shown at the opening plenary session of the third biennial Collaborating Across Borders conference, which was held in Tucson, Arizona in November 2011.
Interprofessional Training in a Simulated Emergency
The Interprofessional Education and Practice (IPEP) CPR Team Behavior Simulations are intensive hour-long sessions training small groups of students from medicine, nursing and pharmacy to work as teams in a simulated health emergency. This video shows an interprofessional student team in action.