Culture and Organizational Climate: Nurses’ Insights Into Their Relationship With Physicians

Within any organization (e.g. a hospital or clinic) the perception of the way things operate may vary dramatically as a function of one’s location in the organizational hierarchy as well as one’s professional discipline. Interorganizational variability depends on organizational coherence, safety, an...

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Main Author: Malloy, David Cruise (Author)
Contributors: Hadjistavropoulos, Thomas ; McCarthy, Elizabeth Fahey ; Evans, Robin J ; Zakus, Dwight H ; Park, Illyeok ; Lee, Yongho Francis ; Williams, Jaime
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2009
In: Nursing ethics
Year: 2009, Volume: 16, Issue: 6, Pages: 719-733
Further subjects:B Ontology
B Ethical Climate
B Organizational Climate
B Ethical decision making
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Summary:Within any organization (e.g. a hospital or clinic) the perception of the way things operate may vary dramatically as a function of one’s location in the organizational hierarchy as well as one’s professional discipline. Interorganizational variability depends on organizational coherence, safety, and stability. In this four-nation (Canada, Ireland, Australia, and Korea) qualitative study of 42 nurses, we explored their perception of how ethical decisions are made, the nurses’ hospital role, and the extent to which their voices were heard. These nurses suggested that their voices were silenced (often voluntarily) or were not expressed in terms of ethical decision making. Finally, they perceived that their approach to ethical decision making differed from physicians.
ISSN:1477-0989
Contains:Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0969733009342636