Sağlık ve Hemşirelik Yönetimi Dergisi (Jun 2015)

Perceptions of Nurses Organizational Culture Working in Surgery Clinic

  • Seda Pehlivan,
  • Diğdem Lafçı,
  • Gülsüm Demiray,
  • Melike Yaman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5222/SHYD.2015.012
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 12 – 24

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: This descriptive research has been conducted to determine surgery nurses' perception related to rganization culture. METHODS: While collecting the survey data, a 'Personal Information Form' that was designed to determine the social-demographical cha¬racteristics of the nurses and the 'Denison Organizational Culture Scale' which was developed by Yahyagil have been used. The survey included 72 nurses who were working in university hospital. Frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, Student t-test, Mann Whitney U, Kruskall Wallis and pearson correlation analysis were used to evaluate the data. RESULTS: Mean age of the nurses was 29,70+-4,39 year, 79.2% of participants were women, and 66.7% of participants were at graduate degree. 54.2% of the nurses were satisfied with their job in hospital, 30.6% of nurses mentioned that in-house and external training activities were poor, 41.7% of nurses pointed out that social activities were poor, 34.7% of nurses specified that the institution was open to change, and 30.6% of of nurses mentioned that the senior managers were participant and helpful. Evaluation of subpoints of the scale showed that; mean points of participant culture, consistency culture, harmony, mission and general point were 28,94+-5,69, 28,50+-5,16, 29,05+-4,76, 29,31+-4,99 and 114,85+-16,53 respectively. Mission culture points of married nurses were higher than single nurses, organization culture points of ward nurses were higher than polyclinic nurses; organization, consistency and harmony points of nurses who worked willingly were higher than the nurses who worked unwillingly; these results were found statistically significant (p<0,05). CONCLUSION: Organizational culture mean scores of nurses working in surgery wards were found good. It was determined that, factors like being married, being a manager, working willingly and satisfaction from institution effected organizational culture level of nurses positively(p<0.05).

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