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Geoffrey L Dickens1, Yenna Salamonson2, Alisha Johnson1
1Centre for Applied Nursing Research, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, South Western Sydney Local Health District and Western Sydney University School of Nursing and Midwifery, Liverpool, NSW, Australia.
Aim:
To evaluate whether a two-part culture improvement programme aimed at nurses in clinical and managerial positions in an inpatient mental health service was associated with culture change, and safety-related behaviour and knowledge improvements.
Background:
Due to serious failings in the delivery of physiological care to mentally disordered inpatients, it was deemed important that interventions be applied to improve service culture.
Methods:
A pre-test and post-test study was conducted to evaluate change associated with a mandated intervention aimed at culture change. Nurses in clinical and managerial positions at all levels attended relevant sessions. All were invited to participate in evaluation measures.
Results:
N = 241 nurses participated in the evaluation (n = 137 and n = 104, pre-test and post-test, respectively). There was a small but significant change in organisational culture indicating greater adhocracy and less clan culture in the second survey period and a small decline in reported safety behaviour. Measures of safety culture, knowledge and emergency-related educational satisfaction were unchanged.
Conclusion:
Only a small change in measured culture was associated with the programme.
Implications For Nursing Management:
Attempts to evaluate culture change need to align anticipated outcomes with appropriate outcome measures. A mandated programme of culture change had little tangible effect on the outcomes measured.
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