The current status of nurses–doctors collaboration in clinical decision and its outcome in Tanzania

AIM: The aim of this study was to establish the current level of collaboration between nurses and medical doctors (MDs) in the making of clinical decisions. DESIGN: Descriptive qualitative design was applied in this study. METHODS: Semi‐structured interviews were conducted to collect qualitative dat...

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Autores principales: Mboineki, Joanes Faustine, Chen, Changying, Gerald, Dolla Deo, Boateng, Cecilia Amponsem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6805315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31660162
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.360
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author Mboineki, Joanes Faustine
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Boateng, Cecilia Amponsem
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description AIM: The aim of this study was to establish the current level of collaboration between nurses and medical doctors (MDs) in the making of clinical decisions. DESIGN: Descriptive qualitative design was applied in this study. METHODS: Semi‐structured interviews were conducted to collect qualitative data. Contents were arranged according to their similarities, whereas content analysis was used to identify explanatory themes. RESULTS: Nurses feel disrespected when medical doctors (MDs) ignore their opinions. The impression of lower level of education of nurses is seen as a cause to their opinions been ignored by the medical doctors. Nurses sometimes adhere to the instructions of MDs, but on other times, they carry on with their own proposed treatment. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICES: Involvement of nurses in clinical decisions will enable nurses to effectively advocate for patients.
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spelling pubmed-68053152019-10-28 The current status of nurses–doctors collaboration in clinical decision and its outcome in Tanzania Mboineki, Joanes Faustine Chen, Changying Gerald, Dolla Deo Boateng, Cecilia Amponsem Nurs Open Research Articles AIM: The aim of this study was to establish the current level of collaboration between nurses and medical doctors (MDs) in the making of clinical decisions. DESIGN: Descriptive qualitative design was applied in this study. METHODS: Semi‐structured interviews were conducted to collect qualitative data. Contents were arranged according to their similarities, whereas content analysis was used to identify explanatory themes. RESULTS: Nurses feel disrespected when medical doctors (MDs) ignore their opinions. The impression of lower level of education of nurses is seen as a cause to their opinions been ignored by the medical doctors. Nurses sometimes adhere to the instructions of MDs, but on other times, they carry on with their own proposed treatment. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING PRACTICES: Involvement of nurses in clinical decisions will enable nurses to effectively advocate for patients. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-08-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6805315/ /pubmed/31660162 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nop2.360 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Nursing Open published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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