Date of Award
Summer 8-2017
Degree Type
Honors College Thesis
Department
Interdisciplinary Studies
First Advisor
Allan Eickelmann
Advisor Department
Interdisciplinary Studies
Abstract
A study of the issue of Nurse-Physician communication, its causes, effects, importance, and possible improvements through research. The results suggest both physicians and nurses agree that nurse-physician communication is an important problem, and can be effectively improved in many ways including: a required nurse-physician communication class for pre-medical and pre-nursing students at an undergraduate level, improved and structured communication tools, and inter-professional education (IPE) between nurses and physicians. The research provides the outlooks of twenty-five nurses and twenty-five physicians independently, as well as demonstrating the nurse-physician disconnect through data comparison and analysis.
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Recommended Citation
Lacoste, Savannah R., "How to Effectively Improve Nurse-Physician Communication" (2017). Honors Theses. 535.
https://aquila.usm.edu/honors_theses/535