Rationale:

Because the claim that our current members of Action Team have a “special” working relationship with doctors, raises the serious issue suggesting that our doctors favor our current Action Team RNs over all other ICU RNs, the Union has decided to ask all ICU nurses to provide their professional opinion on this issue by asking the following question in general terms:

In your professional opinion, in general, is it OK for any doctor from any hospital located in the United States to practice favoritism in any hospital environment including our ICU?

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Statistical Analysis: The survey results clearly demonstrate that between 89.72% and 95.86% of our ICU nurses have stated that in their professional opinion it is not professional for anyone including doctors to practice favoritism at work. These findings were calculated by using scientific formula at the highest possible 99% confidence level, with a margin of error of 3.07% and a p-score of 0.9279.

Conclusion: This result provides strong evidence that overwhelming majority of our ICU nurses (including vast majority of our current Action Team members who completed this survey) strongly believe that it is not professional for anyone including doctors to practice favoritism at work by having “special” relationship with some nurses.

The responses to this survey question reflecting professional opinion of overwhelming majority of our nurses re-enforce the crucial Ethical principles of Fairness and Equality ensuring that everyone is treated fairly, impartially and equally well by doctors, which in turn is very favorable to creation of robust and highly effective healthcare team highly beneficial to our patients.