ABSTRACT

Background: Relationship between physicians and nurses is for achieving a common goal, i.e., improving the health status of the patient. Creating a correct relationship is an important characteristic for practitioners’ in primary health care. Considering the importance of the communication and collaboration among physicians and nurses in order to promote the quality of patients care, this study was done to determine the condition of the professional relation between physicians and nurses from their own point of view.

Methods: In this descriptive-analytic study, using simple random sampling method, 110 physicians and nurses in teaching hospitals of Ardabil were selected. A questionnaire in cluding 22 question for the physicians and 25 questions for the nurses was used to data collection. Data was analyzed with descriptive and analytical tests, by SPSS v.17 software.

Results: The findings showed that 57/4 percent of nurses reported good communication and 42/6 percent moderate communication with physicians while 80% of physicians reported good interaction and just 20% of them declared it in a moderate level. 74.5 percent of the physicians believed that good communication can affect the patients improvement, while in nurses’opinion of view the most important disrupting factor in nurse-physician relation was the disregarding nurses’ clinical skills.

Conclusion: Results evaluoted that in approximately half of nurses, nurse-physician relations was not evaluoted good. While, keeping good relationship between them could be helpful in improving of�care�quality.�So, educational systems can be effective in enhancing nurse-physicians’ professional relationship by educating proper communicational skills.

Keywords: Professional Relationship, Physician, Nurse