American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
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Comparative Study
Perceptions of collaborative practice between Navy nurses and physicians in the ICU setting.
Despite strong evidence for the benefits of collaborative practice between nurses and physicians, this model remains the exception rather than the rule. ⋯ Navy ICU nurses and physicians perceived that they were involved in collaborative practice behavior at a moderate level. Physicians, however, reported perceiving collaborative practice to a greater extent than did nurses. Further research, in different populations, is required to test the theorized constructs of the instruments used to measure perceptions of collaborative practice behavior in this study.