DOCTOR-NURSE RELATIONSHIP AND PATIENT CARE IN UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR TEACHING HOSPITAL (UCTH) AND GENERAL HOSPITAL CALABAR, CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA
Journal Title: International Journal of Management, IT and Engineering - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 9
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to examine doctor-nurse relationship and its effects on patient care in University of Calabar Teaching Hospital and General Hospital Calabar. Two null hypotheses were formulated based on the identified major independent variables, namely: medical team work and doctor-nurse value orientation. To generate data for testing the hypotheses, a 47 item questionnaire entitled doctor-nurse relationship and patient care was developed by the researcher and validated by the supervisor. Survey design research was adopted while data was collected from 280 randomly selected respondents (male and female) of the two major strata of the study- University of Calabar Teaching Hospital and General Hospital Calabar. Purposive, stratified and simple random sampling procedures were variously applied at appropriate stages of the study. The generated data were statistically tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation analytical procedure of the SPSS package. The analysis revealed that: A significant relationship existed between medical team work and doctor-nurse value orientation and patient care. It was recommended that collaborative work relationship between doctors and nurses should be encouraged for effective health care delivery system.
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Antia, Christiana Inyang,Archibong, Esther P. And Uzoh, Esien Cobham
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