Power Distance and Physician-Nurse Collegial Relations Across 14 European Countries: National Culture is Not Merely a Nuisance Factor in International Comparative Research.

Better nurse-reported relations between nurses and physicians link to higher nurse job satisfaction, lower emotional exhaustion, better nurse-perceived quality of care, and lower patient mortality. The Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index is an excellent instrument to characterize variation in working relations between nurses and physicians as well as physicians' professional posture towards nurses.