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Norms and nurse management of conflicts: Keys to understanding nurse-physician collaboration
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Norms and nurse management of conflicts: Keys to understanding nurse-physician collaboration

Gail M. Keenan, Robert Cooke and Stephen L. Hillis
Research in nursing & health, Vol.21(1), pp.59-72
02/1998
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-240X(199802)21:1<59::AID-NUR7>3.0.CO;2-S
PMID: 9472238

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Abstract

In this cross-sectional study, registered nurses from 36 emergency rooms completed an abridged version of the Organizational Culture Inventory (Cooke & Lafferty, 1989) and responded to nine hypothetical conflict vignettes. Stepwise regressions were performed with nurse conflict style intentions as dependent variables and 10 independent variables (three sets of norms, five measures of conflict styles expected to be used by the physician, gender and education). Nurses' expectations for physicians to collaborate and strong constructive and aggressive norms were found to explain a moderate amount of variance (32%) in nurses' intentions to collaborate in conflicts conducive to nurse-physician collaboration. The findings of this study provide support for the proposed theoretical framework and can be used to design in interventions that promote nurse-physician collaboration. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
collaboration conflict management organizational culture

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