title: Nurse-physician teamwork in the emergency department: impact on perceptions of job environment, autonomy, and control over practice.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Teamwork is essential to safety. Few studies focus on teamwork between nurses and physicians in emergency departments (EDs).
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this study was to examine differences between staff in the interventional group EDs (IGEDs) and control group EDs (CGEDs) on perception of job environment, autonomy, and control over practice.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a comparative cross-sectional study of the impact of teamwork on perceptions of job environment, autonomy, and control over practice by registered nurses and physicians (MDs) in EDs.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Staff in the IGEDs showed significant differences compared with staff who worked in the CGEDs on staff perception of job environment, autonomy, and control over practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Active teamwork practice was associated with increased perceptions of a positive job environment, autonomy, and control over practice of both nurses and physicians.
authors: School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. dajeigbe@ucla.edu
authors: David O
authors: DO
authors: Ajeigbe
authors: Donna
authors: D
authors: McNeese-Smith
authors: Linda Searle
authors: LS
authors: Leach
authors: Linda R
authors: LR
authors: Phillips
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D019555:Physician-Nurse Relations; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires