Smartphone Technology: Impact on Interprofessional Working Relations between Doctors and Nurses

Statement on interprofessional relations with doctors of chiropractic.

The American College of Surgeons declares that, except as provided by law, there are no ethical or collective impediments to full professional association and cooperation between doctors of chiropractic and medical physician’s. Individual choice by a medical physician voluntarily to associate professionally or otherwise cooperate with a doctor of chiropractic should be governed only by legal re...

Doctors and nurses benefit from interprofessional online education in dermatology

BACKGROUND Benefits of online learning in the health sector have been demonstrated in previous studies. We examined the potential benefits of a joint web-based curriculum on atopic eczema for health personnel. METHODS Enrolled doctors and nurses had access to the curriculum for 8 weeks. After the course learners completed a questionnaire. Two dermatologists rated the quality of the submitted ...

Understanding interprofessional communication: a content analysis of email communications between doctors and nurses.

BACKGROUND Clinical communication is recognized as a major source of errors in hospitals. The lack of documentation of communication, especially among verbal interactions, often creates hindrances and impedes improvement efforts. By providing smartphones to residents and encouraging nurses to communicate with residents by email shifted much of the communication to emails which permitted analysi...

Questionnaire survey of working relationships between nurses and doctors in University Teaching Hospitals in Southern Nigeria

BACKGROUND Smooth working relationships between nurses and doctors are necessary for efficient health care delivery. However, previous studies have shown that this is often absent with negative impact on the quality of health care delivery. In 2002, we studied factors that affect nurse-doctor working relationships in University Teaching Hospitals (UTH) in Southern Nigeria in order to characteri...

Interprofessional Relations