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Chinese Community Physicians' Perception Toward Collaboration With Advanced Practice Nurses, Ivy Tan May 2015

Chinese Community Physicians' Perception Toward Collaboration With Advanced Practice Nurses, Ivy Tan

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Effective interprofessional collaboration has been shown to be beneficial for both patients and providers. Yet collaboration between physicians and advanced practiced nurses (APNs) has been problematic. Little was known about such collaboration in an ethnic group like the Chinese community. This quantitative descriptive capstone project was to assess the perception among physicians, who are the members of the Chinese Community Healthcare Association in the San Francisco area, toward collaboration with APNs. The study also attempted to gain insight of collaborative attitudes of physicians in the Chinese community in order to fill the gap in the literature in this area. Data …