Elsa’s Post Response
Elsa, according to Lyons (2010), the organizational culture of a health facility dictates the relationships among the patients, families and the healthcare personnel, and streamlines the care delivery process, which is what you are talking about. Good relationships among the nursing care team enhance collaboration and teamwork, while partnership with the families and the community, which your health facility emphasizes as you assert, are important in delivering patient- and family-centered, evidence-based care (Greenstein, 2012). An organizational culture based on cooperation, transparency and quality is important in delivering the best healthcare services to patients (Lyons, 2010). The culture of the institution is often founded on the mission as you rightfully mention. This provides an acceptable style of relationships geared towards the realization of the stated missions. Elsa, as you write, your organization realizes the fact that the healthcare personnel need to collaborate in delivering quality nursing care, through such things as educating both the patients and their families on medication and consulting them prior to making medical decisions to ensure their involvement in the nursing care (Greenstein, 2012).
Christina’s Post Response
Curran and Totten (2010) imply that the underlying mission of healthcare companies is to improve human life. In order to do so, the company’s philosophy of offering the best care dictates the culture of that institution (Lyons, 2010). The mutual relationship between nursing care personnel plays a key role in offering quality patient care, since it leads to collaboration and concern of the welfare of fellow healthcare personnel (Lyons, 2010). Christina, the organization’s care model, which is clearly founded on its mission, dictates the culture where each nurse is expected to act as a leader, taking professional and personal responsibility to deliver the best healthcare services, in mutual collaboration with other nursing personnel. Such responsibility and interdisciplinary collaboration is central to offering patient-based nursing care, leading to optimal healthcare outcomes (Lyons, 2010).
References
Curran, C., & Totten, M. (2010). Mission, strategy, and stakeholders. Nursing Economic$, 28(2):
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Greenstein, J. (2012). Leadership 101 Vision, Mission, Values and Culture. ACA News
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Lyons, S.S. (2010). How Do People Make Continence Care Happen? An Analysis of
Organizational Culture in Two Nursing Homes. Gerontologist, 50 (3): 327-339.
