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How Hospital Nurses Communicate with Physicians?

Jungwoo Lee 1 박용익 2 백승주 3 이지언 4 Hyeyong Lee 5 Jeoung Yeon Ok 6

1경인교대 강사
2고려대학교 독일어권 문화연구소
3서강대학교 한국어교육원
4경희대학교 간호과학대학
5이화여자대학교
6경동대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study was to explore the perspectives and experiences of hospitalnurses regarding nurse-physician communication. To achieve this, thisstudy was used the analysis of text linguistics such as a ‘illocutionary hierarchy’and ‘macro structures and rules’ in the process of qualitativeresearch. Methodology of text linguistics would be able to overcome theproblems and limitations of the analysis accuracy and validity of qualitativeresearch. Furthermore, research results of text linguistics accumulatedover the years could be applied to actual fields. Semistructured interviews were held with ten nurses who were workingin urban hospitals. During the data analysis, six main themes emerged:general aspects of nurses-physicians communication; system of nursesphysicianscommunication; relationship of nurses-physicians ; types andpatterns of nurses’ communication; results of nurses-physicians communication;problem-solving of nurses-physicians communication. The six categoriesanalyzed are related to each other. The categories of ‘system ofnurses-physicians communication’ and ‘relationship of nurses-physicians’describe the situational conditions, ‘overall aspects of nurses-physicianscommunication’ and ‘types and patterns of nurses’ communication’. Theaspect of nurses-physicians’ communication become a cause of ‘results(positive and negative influence)of nurses-physicians communication’, andthe results of nurses-physicians communication influences on the‘problem-solving of nurses-physicians communication’. The results of this study provide deep understanding of nurses’ perspectivesand try to address the problematic areas of nurses-physicianscommunication if they are improving the quality of nursing care that isexpected.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.