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Nurse leaders as managers of ethically sustainable caring cultures.
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Journal of Advanced Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) . Apr2017, Vol. 73 Issue 4, p871-882. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Aims The aim of this study was to identify the distinctive foundations of the care culture and how nurse leaders ( NL) can manage and strengthen these in a quest for ethically sustainable caring cultures. Background Sustainability presupposes an ethical leadership, a management of the good care and a well-educated staff, but research on NLs as managers of ethically sustainable caring cultures is not available. Design The study has a quantitative design with elements of a qualitative research approach. Method Data were collected through a web-based questionnaire sent to staff at eight selected units at a hospital in western Finland during September 2013; the reply rate was 32%. The data material was comprised of opinion questions, the ranking of values and two open-ended questions on lodestars in care and ethical principles in care work. Results NLs manage a care culture that rests on a solid foundation, where staff are co-creators of an ethically sustainable caring culture that includes good traditions for the praxis of care. NLs as managers are therefore responsible for realizing and passing on ethically sustainable caring cultures and creating prerequisites for staff's growth and development. Conclusion The basis of good care, patient safety and sustainability is comprised of ethics with a respectful and dignified care that is evidence-based and economically stable. Through their management NLs have a responsibility to nurture and protect the core of caring and create contextual, professional and cultural prerequisites to maintain the core and art of caring as well as care staff's ethical and professional competence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *ORGANIZATIONS & ethics
*CARING
*CLINICAL competence
*CORPORATE culture
*STATISTICAL correlation
*EMPLOYMENT
*HOSPITAL wards
*HOSPITALS
*INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
*LEADERSHIP
*RESEARCH methodology
*MEDICAL quality control
*NURSE administrators
*NURSING
*NURSING ethics
*NURSING services administration
*PATIENT safety
*PERSONNEL management
*QUESTIONNAIRES
*RESEARCH funding
*RESPONSIBILITY
*SCALE analysis (Psychology)
*STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
*TEAMS in the workplace
*QUALITATIVE research
*PEER relations
*PROFESSIONALISM
*QUANTITATIVE research
*SECONDARY analysis
*EVIDENCE-based nursing
*CLINICAL supervision
*DATA analysis software
*WORK experience (Employment)
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*HOSPITAL nursing staff
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03092402
- Volume :
- 73
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Advanced Nursing (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 121698591
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13184