| Summary: | Background: One factor influencing the increased survival of children with cancer is
the good collaboration between the health care team � doctors and nurses.
Collaboration is a performance standard of professional nurses. Some researches
suggest that motivation is irrelevant with performance. However, a written research
on collaboration indicates that the above collaboration is influenced by motivation.
Objective: This study aims to describe the motivation of nurses, the scale of
collaboration practice of nurse in the nurse-physician collaboration, and the
relationship between the nurses' motivation and the practice of nurse-physician
collaboration.
Methods: This research is quantitative and correlational descriptive. The study
design is cross sectional. The sampling used the total sampling technique with
respondents of 37 nurses stationed in the cancer care in child health installations. The
research instruments use work motivation questionnaire � modified by the researcher
using Collaborative Practice Scale.
Results: Statistical test results showed that in majority the level of working
motivation of the nurses is in middle category (91.9%), the majority of the
collaborative practices are on collaborating stage (48.6%), and there is a relationship
between the variables of independent work motivation and dependent nurse-doctor
collaboration, indicated with p = 0.002. The strength of the above relationship is in
the middle category, indicated by the value of r = 0.500.
Conclusion: There is a relationship between work motivations with the practice of
nurse-physician collaboration. The correlation is positive and the correlation strength
is intermediate. Several attempts are needed to increase the motivation of nurses to
show their optimal performance.
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