Relationship between Professional Collaboration and Quality of Nursing Care in the Nurses' Viewpoint

  The present study aims to investigate the relationship between professional collaboration and the quality of nursing care.

This cross-sectional was conducted from May 2021 to March 2022 on 330 nurses from large teaching hospitals affiliated with Shiraz University of Medical Sciences. The subjects were selected by available sampling. Data were collected using the Professional Collaboration scale and a Cambodian Nursing Care Quality Scale. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS vv. 22.

The means of the nurses’ ages and work experience were 28.5±4.54 and 7.99±6.51 years respectively. The nurses’ mean score for the professional collaboration subscale was 20.47±5.04; their quality of nursing care mean score was 135.94±18.20. The results showed a significant direct correlation between the variables of professional collaboration and the quality of nursing care (r=0.44, P<0.001). However, the professional collaboration did not correlate with any of the nurses’ demographic characteristics (P>0.05).

It is essential that educational programs be developed to enhance nurses’ competence in professional collaboration.