Date of Award
2015
Document Type
Capstone
Degree Name
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)
Committee Chair
Tracy Arnold
Abstract
This capstone project assessed whether a curriculum change for senior nursing students could have an impact on improving attitudes toward physician-nurse collaboration. A convenience sample of 60 senior level nursing students and eight residents were enrolled in the study. The nursing students and residents participated in a high-fidelity simulation scenario, and were given a pretest and posttest using the Jefferson Scale of Attitudes Toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration. There was strong evidence (t= -1.971, p=.05) that the attitudes of physician-nurse collaboration improved for nursing students through a simulation based scenario with residents. The confidence interval for the difference was (-0.22, 0.002). Although the resident's mean scores improved post simulation, there was no statistical significance (t=-1.251, p=.25) that the attitudes of physician-nurse collaboration improved after participating in a simulation based scenario with nursing students.
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Citation Information
Williams, Kristy H., "Improving Attitudes Toward Interdisciplinary Collaboration Between Nursing and Medical Students in Simulation" (2015). Nursing Theses and Capstone Projects. 224.
https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/nursing_etd/224
