Implementation of Nurse Doctor Collaboration in Surgical Cases for Children Patients at The Central Surgery Installation (IBS) Arjawinangun Hospital Cirebon

The increasingly complex health needs of children require treatment from various scientific disciplines, especially when faced with surgery. Children who are hospitalized and undergo surgery for the first time will be at risk of experiencing physiological and psychological problems that affect the length of stay in hospital. It is hoped that collaboration can be a solution in pediatric surgical cases in the operating room to reduce medical errors and maintain the stability of the health status of pediatric patients until the operation is completed. To describe the application of nurse-doctor collaboration in surgical cases for pediatric patients at the Central Surgery Installation (IBS) of Arjawinangun Regional Hospital, Cirebon. This research is a quantitative study with a cross sectional design. The instrument used is the CPAT consisting of 53 assessment items divided into 8 domains. The number of samples used was 41 people from the nursing and doctor professions. Data analysis used univariate and bivariate analysis using the Kruskall Walls test to see the significance of the difference in CPAT scores between nurses and doctors. The research results show that there is a significant difference in perception between nurses and doctors in pediatric surgical cases in the IBS room at Arjawinangun Hospital, Cirebon, in domain 4 (p=0.000), domain 5 (p=0.000), domain 6 (p=0.010) and domain 8 (p=0.040). There are significant differences in perceptions between the nursing and medical professions regarding collaboration in pediatric surgical cases in the IBS ward.