Introduction
While healthcare organizations strive to cultivate high standards, regulations, and values in their settings to achieve better patient outcomes via nursing work improvement, often, such aspirations are characterized by barriers. In particular, nurse leaders might be unable to resolve issues related to organizational culture due to the lack of authority or capability to overcome them, which might make them feel powerless. It is essential to acknowledge such issues to ensure that a larger scope of actions is implemented to adjust the nursing workplace setting to a level unimpacted by significant barriers.
Discussion
Indeed, organizational culture implies a scope of factors that reach beyond the expertise of a nurse leader. An example of such a barrier might be the difficulty in obtaining required resources or their scarcity (McCauley et al., 2020, p. 1770). When a nurse manager needs particular equipment or human resources to accomplish an organizational goal, they might feel powerless because the resources are limited or unavailable due to organizational circumstances. Moreover, as managers, nurse leaders “plan staffing and skill mix for optimum care, while maintaining focus on the strategic goals of the organization” (McCauley et al., 2020, p. 1770). However, a barrier that might be implied in the accomplishment of such duties is the lack of clarity in higher management’s directions related to strategy, which leaves a nurse leader hesitant and powerless.
Conclusion
In conclusion, organizational culture-related implications of workplace interactions, communication, and perception of nursing roles might serve as barriers to nursing leaders’ performance. For example, as stated by researchers, moral disengagement and knowledge hiding in nurse staff’s behavior in the workplace might be a significant challenge for leadership (Zhao & Xia, 2019, p. 357). These issues are harmful due to the disruption of normal work processes and limited results in patient care. Thus, the identification of these barriers might be used as a premise for implementing initiatives aimed at facilitating organizational culture’s impact on nursing.
References
McCauley, L., Kirwan, M., Riklikiene, O., & Hinno, S. (2020). A scoping review: The role of the nurse manager as represented in the missed care literature. Journal of Nursing Management, 28(8), 1770-1782.
Zhao, H., & Xia, Q. (2019). Nurses’ negative affective states, moral disengagement, and knowledge hiding: The moderating role of ethical leadership. Journal of Nursing Management, 27(2), 357-370. Web.