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Nurse/physician conflict management mode choices: implications for improved collaborative practice.

Tova Hendel¹, Miri Fish, Ornit Berger

¹Department of Nursing, School of Health Professions, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. tdhendel@zahav.net.il

Nursing Administration Quarterly

|July 4, 2007

Summary

Physicians and head nurses frequently use compromising conflict management strategies. While collaboration is more common among nurses, it

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Area of Science:

Organizational Behavior
Healthcare Management
Conflict Resolution

Background:

Daily conflicts are common in complex healthcare organizations.
Organizational conflict is a significant area within organizational behavior.
Collaboration is linked to positive patient outcomes in magnet hospitals.

Purpose of the Study:

To identify and compare conflict mode choices between physicians and head nurses.
To examine the relationship between conflict mode choices and background characteristics.
To understand conflict management in acute care hospital settings.

Main Methods:

Cross-sectional correlational study design.
Surveyed 75 physicians and 54 head nurses across 5 hospitals.
Utilized the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument.

Main Results:

No significant difference in the most frequently used conflict mode between physicians and nurses.
Compromising was the most common mode for both groups (P = .00).
Collaboration was chosen more by head nurses (P = .001) than physicians (P = .00).

Conclusions:

Healthcare professionals frequently use compromising for conflict resolution.
Enhancing interprofessional partnerships is crucial for patient care and staff satisfaction.
Further research may explore strategies to increase collaborative conflict resolution.