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Learning Objective 1: The learner will be able to understand the relationship between multidisciplinary communication and work engagement of staff nurses.
Learning Objective 2: The learner will be able to be given a suggestion relating to great significance of multidisciplinary communication for promoting work engagement.
Method:In Dec 2011, we conducted an anonymous questionnaire survey with the approval from the hospital Institutional Review Board.The subjects were 77 staff nurses at a Japanese community hospital. We used the Japanese version of Utrecht Work Engagement Scale short-version (UWES-S) (Schaufeli et al.. 2002; Shimazu et al., 2008) to measure their work engagement. The scale consists of 9 items rated on a 7-point Likert scale.Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS Ver.20.0.
Result:A total of 66 questionnaires were returned, resulting in a response rate of 89.6 %.When staff nurses had the difficulties and problems on patient care, they showed a tendency to tell their senior and colleagues rather than other professionals. The staff nurses who told them to other professionals such as nurse managers, physicians, clerks and nursing assistants had a high score of UWES compared to the staff nurses who did not do that (t-test, P<0.05).
Conclusion:We could suggest the usefulness of communication among multidisciplinary team members for promoting work engagement of staff nurses, although the sample size was small.