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- Title
The organisational silence of midwives and nurses: reasons and results.
- Authors
Yurdakul, Mine; Beşen, Meltem Aydin; Erdoğan, Semra
- Abstract
Aim The study was conducted to determine the issues about which nurses and midwives remain silent and the reasons for it and the perceived results of silence. Background Organisational silence is a vitally important issue in the health sector, due to the risks and mistakes that are not reported, and proposals for improvement that are not made. Method The sample of this descriptive survey, which investigated a cause and effect relationship, was 159 nurses and midwives. The data were collected using a questionnaire and the organisational silence scale. Findings Of the study participants, 84.9% were nurses and 15.1% were midwives. Of all participants 88.7% were women. 8.8% of participants stated that they never remained silent about issues related to work and the workplace. Respondents most often remained silent about issues related to ethics and responsibility. 'Limited improvement and development' was frequently mentioned as a perceived result of organisational silence. Conclusion Our study determined that organisational silence is quite common among nurses and midwives. Implications for nursing management Activities that raise the awareness of hospital administrations and employees about preventing the factors that cause and maintain silence in hospitals should be planned.
- Subjects
TURKEY; ACADEMIC medical centers; CORPORATE culture; STATISTICAL correlation; RESEARCH methodology; MIDWIVES; NURSES; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; SAFETY; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); WORK environment; DATA analysis; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ONE-way analysis of variance
- Publication
Journal of Nursing Management, 2016, Vol 24, Issue 5, p686
- ISSN
0966-0429
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/jonm.12374