PURPOSE: Empirical studies of nursing in psychiatry rarely consider the collaboration between nurses and doctors. Which variables determine the quality of the cooperation between nurses and doctors? METHODS: In 1992 and 1997, all nurses of a psychiatric hospital were interrogated by means of questionnaire (FAPP) in order to measure the quality of collaboration. RESULTS: In spite of major changes in the hospital management and higher work-load assessment by the nurses concerning the collaboration with doctors and with other nurses, the quality of team-work and participating in treatment decisions, was more positive in 1997. Nurses with a "negative" collaboration with doctors, also have difficulties to collaborate with other nurses. This finding did not depend on gender, age or length of professional career. CONCLUSION: All institutional provisions that improve the cooperation, the competence, the responsibility, and the ward-atmosphere, also ameliorate the cooperation with other occupational groups in the hospital.
PURPOSE: Empirical studies of nursing in psychiatry rarely consider the collaboration between nurses and doctors. Which variables determine the quality of the cooperation between nurses and doctors? METHODS: In 1992 and 1997, all nurses of a psychiatric hospital were interrogated by means of questionnaire (FAPP) in order to measure the quality of collaboration. RESULTS: In spite of major changes in the hospital management and higher work-load assessment by the nurses concerning the collaboration with doctors and with other nurses, the quality of team-work and participating in treatment decisions, was more positive in 1997. Nurses with a "negative" collaboration with doctors, also have difficulties to collaborate with other nurses. This finding did not depend on gender, age or length of professional career. CONCLUSION: All institutional provisions that improve the cooperation, the competence, the responsibility, and the ward-atmosphere, also ameliorate the cooperation with other occupational groups in the hospital.
Authors: Sonja Indefrey; Bernard Braun; Sebastian von Peter; Andreas Bechdolf; Thomas Birker; Annette Duve; Olaf Hardt; Philip Heiser; Kerit Hojes; Burkhard Rehr; Harald Scherk; Anna Christina Schulz-Du Bois; Bettina Wilms; Martin Heinze Journal: Front Psychiatry Date: 2020-07-31 Impact factor: 4.157