Missed nursing care as related to the types of ethical climate in public hospitals
Date Issued
2017
Abstract
Missed nursing care is defined as "any aspect of required patient care that is
omitted (either in part or in whole) or delayed", (Kalisch et al. 2009, p.
1509), it can occur at any stage of the nursing process and it is influenced by
factors in the care environment such as the allocation of resources (material
and labor), relationships and communication, that affect nurses’ internal
processes (e.g. values, beliefs, collective team norms) and guide them in
deciding which nursing activity should be completed, should be missed, or
should be delayed (Kalisch et al. 2009).
Ethical climate in hospitals reflects the collective behavior of health care
employees, acts as a reference of behavior when nurses face ethical issues and
has a great impact on their decision-making process and on the quality of
patient care. Victor and Cullen (1987) defined ethical climate as “the shared
perceptions of what is ethically correct behavior and how ethical issues
should be handled in organizations’’. Five types appear frequently in
healthcare organizations which are the Caring, the Instrumental, the Rules,
the Law and Codes and the Independence.
Research on the relationship of the types of ethical climate with missed
nursing care is limited. Since the nurses' practice environment has been
linked to missed nursing care and having in mind that the ethical climate is
actually a dimension of the whole working environment, as well as, the results
of a previous study (Vryonides et al. 2016) that had examined this relationship
in cancer care units (only), the current study further explores this relationship.
omitted (either in part or in whole) or delayed", (Kalisch et al. 2009, p.
1509), it can occur at any stage of the nursing process and it is influenced by
factors in the care environment such as the allocation of resources (material
and labor), relationships and communication, that affect nurses’ internal
processes (e.g. values, beliefs, collective team norms) and guide them in
deciding which nursing activity should be completed, should be missed, or
should be delayed (Kalisch et al. 2009).
Ethical climate in hospitals reflects the collective behavior of health care
employees, acts as a reference of behavior when nurses face ethical issues and
has a great impact on their decision-making process and on the quality of
patient care. Victor and Cullen (1987) defined ethical climate as “the shared
perceptions of what is ethically correct behavior and how ethical issues
should be handled in organizations’’. Five types appear frequently in
healthcare organizations which are the Caring, the Instrumental, the Rules,
the Law and Codes and the Independence.
Research on the relationship of the types of ethical climate with missed
nursing care is limited. Since the nurses' practice environment has been
linked to missed nursing care and having in mind that the ethical climate is
actually a dimension of the whole working environment, as well as, the results
of a previous study (Vryonides et al. 2016) that had examined this relationship
in cancer care units (only), the current study further explores this relationship.
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