[Cooperation and job satisfaction in a nursing-physician team. An analysis of nursing evaluation in psychiatry].
OBJECTIVE
Empirical studies of nursing in psychiatry rarely consider the collaboration between nurses and doctors. Which variables determine the quality of the cooperation between nurses and doctors?


METHODS
In 1992 and 1997, all nurses of a psychiatric hospital were interrogated by means of questionnaire (FAPP) in order to measure the quality of collaboration.


RESULTS
In spite of major changes in the hospital management and higher work-load assessment by the nurses concerning the collaboration with doctors and with other nurses, the quality of team-work and participating in treatment decisions, was more positive in 1997. Nurses with a "negative" collaboration with doctors, also have difficulties to collaborate with other nurses. This finding did not depend on gender, age or length of professional career.


CONCLUSIONS
All institutional provisions that improve the cooperation, the competence, the responsibility, and the ward-atmosphere, also ameliorate the cooperation with other occupational groups in the hospital.
Klinik für Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie, Giessen.
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D000328:Adult; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005858:Germany; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010348:Patient Care Team; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D016526:Workload
Kooperation und Arbeitszufriedenheit im pflegerisch-ärztlichen Team. Eine Analyse pflegerischer Bewertungen in der Psychiatrie.