A Nursing Home And Its Organizational Climate / Edition 1

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Overview

Nursing home reform, Professor Farmer asserts, calls for increased emphasis upon issues related to life rather than care. Organizational climate, which reflects the nursing home's unique position to impact life issues, provides a conceptual framework for effective interventions, evaluations, and ultimately meaningful reform.

The general atmosphere of most nursing homes remains overwhelmingly negative in spite of those few homes that are credited with excellence. Professor Farmer believes that the concept of organizational climate holds promise for better understanding the complexities and impact of atmosphere in any one nursing home. At the same time, organizational climate as a concept is poorly understood. There is a need to rethink the concept and return to the original notion of weather as its metaphor. Farmer attempts this in her case study by describing organizational climate where it can best be captured.

Practitioners of long-term care, from the fields of administration, geronotology, nursing, nutrition, policy makers, occupational and physical therapy, social work, and therapeutic recreation will find the insights of this study of great value, as will graduate students, scholars, and others concerned with organizational studies and issues in gerontology.

The book contains no figures.

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Using weather as a metaphor for pervasive and constantly shifting influences, Farmer (nursing, Connecticut State U.-New Haven) examines a 68-bed nursing home in the suburb of a large New England city. She considers such dimensions as the site selection, her first encounters with the organization, an average day, physical features, hierarchy, core values, dominant processes, and determinants of the organizational climate. She analyzes her findings and presents methodological, theoretical, and practical implications. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780865692626
  • Publisher: ABC-Clio, LLC
  • Publication date: 6/18/1996
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 172
  • Product dimensions: 6.14 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 0.44 (d)

Meet the Author

BONNIE CASHIN FARMER is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, CT.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Pt. I The Organizational Climate of the Meadows of Madison 1
1 Introduction 3
2 The Meadows of Madison 11
Pt. II Major Climate Elements of the Meadows of Madison 25
3 Essential Structure of a "Nice Place" 27
4 Core Values of a "Nice Place" 45
5 Dominant Processes of "A Nice Place to Be If You Have to Be Here" 63
6 The Identified Determinants of the Organizational Climate of the Meadows of Madison 93
Pt. III A Study of Contrasts 101
7 Analysis 103
8 Conclusions 109
Appendix A: Perspectives of Aging 115
Appendix B: Review of the Literature: The Nursing Home 117
Appendix C: Review of the Literature: Organizational Climate 125
Appendix D: An Ethnographic Design for the Study of Organizational Climate in a Nursing Home 139
Bibliography 147
Index 157
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