Journal of Nursing & Care

Linda Searle Leach

Publications

• Research Article
  Effect of Nurse-Physician Teamwork in the Emergency Department Nurse and Physician Perception of Job Satisfaction
  Author(s): David O Ajeigbe, Donna McNeese-Smith, Linda R Phillips and Linda Searle LeachDavid O Ajeigbe, Donna McNeese-Smith, Linda R Phillips and Linda Searle Leach
  
  Introduction: Research studies in the military and aviation demonstrated that teamwork is essential to safety. However, there were limited studies dealing with the practice of teamwork between nurses and physicians in the emergency departments (EDs). Aim: The aim of this cross-sectional, quasi-interventional study was to compare nurses and physicians (staff) who worked in the interventional group emergency departments and those who worked in the control group emergency departments on the effect of teamwork on staff job satisfaction. Methodology: Data were collected over a three-year span (2009-2011) for a seven-day period in each participating hospital emergency departments using Revised Nurse Work Index, a four-point (1 to 4) Likert-type scaled instrument. Primary investigator and trained research assistants distributed surveys to ED staff who agreed to participate in the study. Comp.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1168.1000141

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