Organizational Culture and Values in Nursing Practice Overview

This presentation examines the critical role of organizational culture and values in nursing practice, emphasizing their impact on patient outcomes and ethical responsibilities. It delves into the professional values, attitudes, and behaviors expected of nurses, including ethical conduct, autonomy, and patient advocacy. The presentation highlights the importance of self-assessment and multicultural awareness in nursing, addressing workplace challenges and the need for effective communication. It also explores how to align personal and institutional values, promoting positive patient responses and disease prevention through professionalism and individualism. A case study illustrates the significance of nurses understanding and caring for patient wellbeing, leading to improved patient engagement and outcomes. The presentation concludes by summarizing the importance of value alignment for healthcare institutions and social development.

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Introduction
 Currently, nursing practice is considered as one
most important work group in the country and
globally where the direction of health care
system is highly dependent on various nursing
activities.
 In order to effectively achieve value alignment
in our health institutions, some of the critical
issues such as social and organization culture
must be adequately revised and understood
(Moorhead, Johnson, Maas, & Swanson, 2018).

Professional Values, Attitudes, & Behaviors of
Nurses
 The discussion of profession values, attitude, and behavior can be largely
characterized into several basic topics which have considerably huge
impact on value alignment success.
 Some of the important aspects that have been discussed in this presentation
include; Ethical responsibility, Professional attitude and behavior,
autonomy, and/or patient care and respect.
 In ethical responsibility, nurses have duty in serving their patients in
accordance to the ANA and institution code of conduct (Stevens, 2013).

Continuation
 As professions, nurses are expected to maintain a high set of
organization behavior and attitudes towards their patients and
colleagues.
 Some of the basic features each health worker is expected to exhibit
include responsibility and accountability, patient advocacy,
compassion and respect, participation in the healthcare
environment, the nurse’s primary commitment to the patient, and
collaboration (Moorhead et al., 2018)

Continuation
 As a nurse, patient is an important virtue which should never be
misused and thus autonomy should be a key pillar the value
alignment.
 Generally, autonomy describes the right of patient to decide what is
best for him or her and therefore nurses have an obligation to their
in guiding them to an effective recovery path.

Assessment of Personal Character and
Belief in Nursing
 Unlike most of professions today, nursing requires an effective self-
evaluation of oneself in various situations and environment.
 As individuals, the type of environment and society which surrounds us
has a lot impact to our personal character and belief.
 Therefore, its important to review individual values in areas such as
cultural background, religion, age set, level of literacy, and other social
dynamics which may foster effectiveness in value alignment (Stevens,
2013).

Continuation
 Multicultural awareness is one of the main
topics which has affected many
organizations both internally and
externally.
 As a nurse, one must fully understand all
these various dynamics which are involved
in different social setups and how they can
be turned to gain success in patient
outcomes (Moorhead et al., 2018).

Workplace Challenges and Promotion
Effective Communication
 Nursing practice is wide field full of different challenges which can
also cause a wide range of conflicts.
 The cause some this issues is also related to poor policy and
procedures and management culture.
 To curb all these issues, effective communication within and outside
the organization must be maintained at all cost (Rushton, et al.,
2015).

Assessment of Effective Alignment of
Organizational and Nursing Values
 The alignment of personal and institutional values must be applied with
consideration of several elements which are a reflection of the organization
mission statement.
 A successful value alignment should exhibit a number of which includes
minimization of workplaces issues, improved communication, and the
relation between the organization management, employees, and the entire
society, increase in improvement in patient outcome, and others (Alspach,
2013).

Case Study
 Experience of good example where individual and organization
behavior aligned effectively is one of my major events which I have
witnessed and has had tremendous to patient outcome.
 The case scenario explains the impact of nurses being able to
understand and care for their patient wellbeing.

Impact of Effective Nurse Engagement on Patient
Outcomes
 Through proper understanding of psychosocial
environment nurses can attain a very high success
rate in the positive response of their patients.
 In order to have effective participation from all
involved entities, cultural diversification
awareness must be fully understood thus to
achieve maximum engagement between nurses
and patients (Porter & Lee, 2013).

How can Professionalism and Individualism Used to
Promote Social Healthcare and Disease Prevention
 The growth of chronic diseases and illness are one of
the increasing challenges in the world today. Some of
these medical conditions such as asthma caused by
smoking, obesity and diabetes type-2, caused by poor
food consumption, are some of the major deadly
diseases which can be easily minimized through the
use of professionalism and individualism in health
awareness promotion (Roski et al., 2014).

Conclusion
 In summary, in order to have effective value alignment, nurses must
be able to differentiate between their professional ethics and
personal values.
 It has also been widely established that organization and nurses
value alignment has a very positive impact on patient response to
recovery and treatment. Therefore, this should act guiding pillar for
health institutions and social development.

References
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Continuation
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Continuation
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