Relationship-based care model and effects on nurse-physician collaboration

International Conference on Nursing & Emergency Medicine

December 02-04, 2013 Hampton Inn Tropicana, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Dawn Marie Nair

Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Relationship-based care model (RBC) is excellent healthcare achieved through collaborative relationships. A collaborative practice model exists between nurses and physicians when a collegial relationship is at the core of interdependent partnering between the two disciplines. The purpose of this evaluative study was to delineate the frequency of self-reported nurse-physician collaborative behaviors in an acute care hospital practicing the RBC model. One objective of the study is that nurses can identify nurse-physician collaborative behaviors in the patient care setting. A second is that nurses identify the RBC model as a method of promoting nurse-physician collaborative behaviors. A descriptive study was conducted using a two-group design. The first group was composed of registered nurses and the second of physicians. The setting was a nonprofit acute care hospital. The sample consisted of 114 nurses and 33 physicians. The Nurse-Physician Collaboration Scale (NPCS) was used to measure self-reported levels of collaborative behavior in three subscales. Findings indicate nurses and physicians agree on the frequency of collaborative behaviors most often in the subscale that concentrated on the nurse-physician relationship. One conclusion is that the RBC model of practice focuses nurses and physicians on their relationship and may contribute to collaborative nurse-physician behaviors.

Biography :

Dawn Marie Nair completed her DNP in 2011 from Case Western Reserve University and the Adult Nurse Practitioner Program from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. She is an assistant Professor of Nursing in the RN to BSN Program at St. Vincent?s College in Bridgeport, CT. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and authored a chapter in the CNL Certification Review Handbook (2012) and co-authored in the ANA Code of Ethics and Relationship Based Care (2013).