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Nurse Autonomy On Patient Care: Article Analysis

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The responsibilities of doctors, nurses, and other staff members within a hospital have increased, the need for interdependence among the whole staff and another support has increased. When there is a mistake made in health care with consequences, the failure of interdisciplinary communication is often to blame. In this journal a questionnaire of 10,022 staff nurses within 32 hospitals in England explored the relationship between interdisciplinary teamwork and nurse autonomy on patient care. Stated within the article “Key variables of nursing autonomy, control over resources, relationship with doctors, emotional exhaustion, and decision-making were found to have a significant correlation with one another”, with that being said patient care

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