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Son Chae Kim1, Amy D Yates, Patricia Graham
1Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA 92106, USA. sonkim@pointloma.edu
Clinical Nursing Research
|April 5, 2011
Summary
The Family-Provider Alliance Program showed some benefits for nurses, particularly in improving family empowerment. A strong family-nurse alliance positively impacts nurses job satisfaction and perceived quality of care.
Area of Science:
- Nursing
- Healthcare Management
- Patient-Provider Relationships
Background:
- The quality of the therapeutic alliance between nurses and families is crucial in healthcare settings.
- Understanding the impact of specific programs on this alliance and its downstream effects is important for improving care.
- Nurses' job satisfaction and perception of care quality are key indicators of healthcare system performance.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the effects of the Family-Provider Alliance Program on nurses' perceptions.
- To assess the program's impact on therapeutic alliance, job satisfaction, and quality of care.
- To determine the relationship between family-nurse therapeutic alliance and nurses' job satisfaction and perceived quality of care.
Main Methods:
- A nonrandomized controlled study involving 275 nurses.
- 206 nurses participated in the Family-Provider Alliance Program (experimental group).
- 69 nurses served as a control group without program participation.
Main Results:
- While both groups showed improvements in the Kim Alliance Scale-Provider score, only the experimental group improved in the Empowerment subscale.
- Family-nurse therapeutic alliance explained 7.2% of the variance in nurses' job satisfaction and 11.4% in perceived quality of care.
- The program had a marginal effect on improving nurses' perception of family empowerment.
Conclusions:
- The Family-Provider Alliance Program demonstrated some effectiveness, particularly in enhancing family empowerment perception among nurses.
- A high-quality family-nurse therapeutic alliance is a significant predictor of nurses' job satisfaction and perceived quality of care.
- Further research may be warranted to optimize such alliance-building programs in nursing practice.
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