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NURSE PHYSICIAN RELATIONS
Nurse Physician Relations
An Issue for Nursing Retention
Cynde R. Early
College of Health Science
Abstract
The current nursing shortage has many health care facilities focusing on retention. One area that helps retention is to provide a better working environment for the nurses? Recently there has been a great deal of focus on the nurse-physician relationship. ... Nurses and physicians must improve their working relations to ensure this is not a cause for dissatisfaction in the work place that causes nurse to look elsewhere.
Nurse Physician Relations, An Issue for Nursing Retention
Many years ago nurses truly functioned almost like a handmaiden to physicians. ... Unfortunately, even today nurses must deal with difficulties with the nurse-physician relationship. ... There has been much written related to nurse-physician relationships over the past several years.
According to the Rosenstein study (2002) 96% of nurses stated they had witnessed or experienced disruptive behavior of a physician. ... In order to look at retention, nursing must address multiple areas. Nurse-physician relations are only one of these areas, but can and should be addressed. ...
There is much discussion behind this issue. ...
"Physicians rated orders not being carried out correctly or in a timely manner as the primary cause of disruptive behavior, followed by ill-timed calls to physicians, the need to question or clarify orders, and general communication breakdowns between physicians and nursing staff. ... In order to address the physician concerns, some health care facilities are looking at the transition of new nurses and what they need to know. ... NEMC has a program to mentor new nurses on the information they should have available before contacting a physician (Donnellan, 2003).
Approximate Word count = 1330
Approximate Pages = 5.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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