Abstract
Leaders are bombarded with healthy workplace articles and advice. This article outlines a strategy for laying the foundation for healthy patient care workplaces at the pivotal unit level. This process facilitates the nursing unit staff to create and implement a shared vision for staff working relationships. Fourteen acute care hospital units, all participants in a healthy workplace intervention, were selected for this analysis because they chose team behavioral norms as a top priority to begin to implement their vision for a desired future for their units, a healthy workplace. These units developed specific team behavioral norms for their expectations of each other. The findings revealed 3 major norm themes and attributes: norms for effective communication, positive attitude, and accountability. Attributes of each norm are described to assist nurses to positively influence their core unit work culture.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 213-218 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Critical Care Nursing Quarterly |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2007 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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Keywords
- Action research
- Code of conduct
- Culture
- Empowerment
- Healthy workplace
- Magnet hospitals
- Participatory management
- Search conference
- Team behavioral norms
- Unit shared leadership
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nursing(all)
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
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Team behavioral norms : A shared vision for a healthy patient care workplace. / Parsons, Mickey L.; Clark, Paul; Marshall, Michelle; Cornett, Patricia A.
In: Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 3, 07.2007, p. 213-218.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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