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The Relationship between Professional Collaboration and Quality of Nursing Care in Intensive Care Units: A Cross-Sectional Study
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Mozghan Rivaz   , Banafsheh Tehranineshat * |
| Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran , tbanafsheh@yahoo.com |
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Background & aim: Professional collaboration is regarded as a major contributory factor in the development of high-quality and safe care. However, only a few studies have explored this factor. The present study has aimed to investigate the relationship between professional collaboration and the quality of nursing care of nurses in Intensive Units (ICUs) of the hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from May 2021 to March 2022 on 330 ICU nurses from large teaching hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The subjects were selected by stratified random sampling. Data were collected using the Professional Collaboration scale related to Professional Practice Environment Nursing Instrument and the Nursing Care Quality Scale. The P value was set <0.05.
Results: The means of the nurses’ ages and work experience were 28.5 ± 4.54 and 7.99 ± 6.51 years respectively. The nurses’ mean score for the professional collaboration subscale was 20.47 ± 5.04; their quality of nursing care mean score was 135.94 ± 18.20. The results showed a significant direct correlation between the variables of professional collaboration and the quality of nursing care (r = 0.62, P<0.001). The results of multivariate regression model showed that compared to the other dimensions of nursing care quality, the dimension of ethics-oriented activities was more explained by professional collaboration (ß = 0.39, P<0.001). In addition, the professional collaboration can predict 0.52% of the variance in the quality of nursing care.
Conclusion: According to the findings of this study it can be stated that it is essential that educational programs with an emphasis on professional ethics values be developed to enhance nurses’ competence in professional collaboration and quality of care. |
Article number: 4 |
| Keywords: Professional, Collaboration, Quality of Care, Nursing |
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Received: 2023/08/30 | Accepted: 2023/12/27 | Published: 2024/03/15
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