Organizational Structure and Culture in Nursing

Organizational Structure and Culture

Introduction

An organization can be defined as a diverse and talented group of people who are working together under a distinct order to accomplish prearranged results with economic, physical as well as information sources. In this paper, I will be analyzing the nursing network's organizational structure and the client-centered attention it provides, as well as its handling of information, communication methods, and important decision-making abilities with respect to their structure and patients. The formal and informal reporting lines and issues of energy will also be examined, and a comparison drawn about what a successful company's leadership qualities would look like. Most nursing homes employ an incredible service line structure that has a central leader that answers to additional regional leaders (Casida & Pinto, 2008). Cultural factors often influence the line structure as well, and sometimes the integration of these elements lead to a rethink of the entire organizational structure. This holds true for other fields or industries as well. In nursing, there may not be an independent chain of command, but there are charges assigned to each department that the answer to each department's head.

Discussion

The department head consequently answers to an executive officer who is accountable to the commanding officer. This hierarchy is linear and works well with keeping the organization's activity directed in a flow that allows for timely decisions and adequate care to the deserving and emergency patients. Most hospitals boast of a complex structure in which work is divided among several small groups, and is handled much quicker in this manner (Johnson, 2009). Numerous departments and interdepartmental heads are in charge of assigning tasks to different group heads. These tasks are then carried out by their subordinates. Line authority is a linear concept and is very effective especially in our age where technology has already helped ensure some help in the assigning of tasks and so on. In hospitals where work is divided among groups, there are often different divisions that account to a shared administrative staff, which works out, well for the work level. The registered nurse is provided with a central role in the operating room where he or she will give surgical technologist tasks as well as anesthetic responsibilities to subordinates, if needed. Even with the different forms of accountability, the end result is only to ensure that quality care is provided to patients and their stay at a hospital is made comfortable and all events organized in an adequate and swift manner, so the patient themselves don't have to perform any responsibilities in their condition, nor their families. In the operating room, nursing opinions differ as to whether suggestions and instructions can be handed out by the head nurse or the surgeons, or the subordinates that work as assistants.

It has been observed in the past that through the help of subordinates, since the presence of mind and active participation is what matters in the operating room more than the hierarchy or organizational structure (Findlay & Estabrooks, ...