Importance of Workplace Culture in Healthcare

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Introduction.
Workplace Culture gives a clear picture of the working environment in a given institution
where various employees are expected to perform their day to day tasks. The culture of a
healthcare workplaces influences the care delivered to the patients either positive or negative
(Strand, Edgren, Borna, Lindgren, Wichmann-Hansen, & Stalmeijer, 2015). Good and effective
care results to increased productivity and better outcomes while negligence and ignorance results
to reduced productivity and inefficient results. With the right culture whereby all factors are
considered such as ensuring all nurses are happy and contended and including proper and
efficient measures whereby patients are fully cared for, the productivity of the institution is
greatly influenced resulting to a positive result.
Positivity of a work place culture.
Positive outcomes of a healthcare are greatly influenced by the workplace culture
according to a survey done by Mcdonald (2016). The survey proves that the culture of a
healthcare is very important especially if good results are to be expected in terms of patients
receiving the best care and support.
A healthcare should make sure its culture is designed such a way that it leads to both
positive outcomes from the nurses and to the patients. Such a culture benefits both the nurses and
the healthcare such that patients receive the best treatment from the nurses which later results to
good results for the healthcare.
Institution influence to a workplace culture.
Regan, Wong, Laschinger, Cummings, Leiter, MacPhee, & Young‐Ritchie, (2017) posits
that an institution plays a very important role in enforcing the right workplace culture. The rules

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set in a healthcare that are to be followed should always ensure all the workers are productive
including doctors, nurses and other technical staffs. This would ensure all members are able to
do their work to their best and if a problem arises their fellow colleagues are ready to help.
Ensuring all members involved in an healthcare communicate with each other openly and
with transparency and also with the patients is very important if the patients are treated properly.
A healthcare should allow its workers to participate in training and team work building to
improve the skills of various employees especially nurses who deal with different patients each
day most of them suffering from different diseases. This enhances learning of new things and
also building self-confidence among nurses.
Appreciation.
Tillott (2013) points out how appreciating a work well done by the nurses would build a
motivation and morale to the nurses who always feel less appreciated for the work they have
done. This helps by nurses able to do their tasks with all their heart knowing that at least
someone appreciates the effort they put in their work. By motivation and also setting goals and
values that each and every nurse is supposed to achieve is a great step taken by a healthcare to
ensure all results at the end of the day are positive and done with great efficiency by the nurses.
An instance where a lot of patients are treated or the availability of nurses is low, good
appreciation helps to ensure the available nurses are able to take good care of all the available
patients.
Individual culture.
Individual cultures also play an important role in ensuring a positive culture in a
healthcare environment. Personal beliefs, values and interests however different they are from

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different people influences the kind of culture of a healthcare. The most efficient ones ensure
positive results of a healthcare. Cummings (2014) explains that the culture of the leaders in a
place affects the interaction between the leaders and the ordinary workers.
Leaders whose personal cultures are not accommodating to all members greatly affects
the communications and interaction between them. He also explains that to be able to lead people
one has to have a cultural discipline that is able to accommodate all people and also regular
people should also have a culture that is easy to interact with other members.
By enforcing this cultural discipline it provides a good and elaborate understanding
between all workers including nurses and doctors in a healthcare which promotes good
productivity. A culture whereby leaders and regular nurses understand each other properly
results to good care and support to the patients.
Workers interaction.
The workplace culture in a healthcare should enable nurses to value their workmates who
will help facilitate them and provide encouragement to them as described by Han (2016) on how
workers should interact with each other. This will help in growth and development of their
nursing career by learning from nurses with more experience and also supporting each other.
Valuing their peers improves their correlation in working that would later result to a positive
result and improvement to the care and support to their patients.
Trust and integrity.
A culture of a healthcare workplace should be based on trust and integrity among the
workers argues Eskola, Roos, Mccormack, Slater, Hahtela, & Suominen, (2016). This ensures