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KMID : 1033320150050010018
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Global Health & Nursing
2015 Volume.5 No. 1 p.18 ~ p.27
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Perception of Healthcare Providers on Physician Assistant’s Job
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Kim Min-Ji
Shou Dorina
Jeung Mi-Eun
Kang In-Soon
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study was aimed to investigate healthcare professionals’ perception and to provide the basic data for the establishment of the Physician Assistants’ role.
Methods: This study was conducted with 179 healthcare professionals (29 physicians assistants (PA), 90 nurses and 60 physicians). Structured questionnaire was used to collect data.
Results: The importance and satisfaction were highly perceived by nurses but there was no statistically significant difference in healthcare professional groups (p=.22, p=.12). Wound care was highest and prescription, medication, esearch and education were relatively low in the perception of the importance. In the satisfaction, wound care was highest and prescription, medication were lowest. The importance perceived by medical PA and physicians was significantly higher than by surgical PA and physicians (p=.02). The satisfaction on subjects who interacted with PA was significantly higher than that of them who didn’t interact with PA (p=.00).
Conclusion: This study shows we need efforts to develop and expand role of nurses for the change of PA’s role as assistant in the future. Therefore we should improve PA’s professionalism and standardize PA’s role in the important part realized by healthcare professionals for elevation quality and satisfaction of medical services.
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KEYWORD
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Physician assistant, Healthcare providers, Job satisfaction, Importance
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