Investigation of supporting and restraining factors for instituting collaborative practice in a community hospital

Update Item Information
Title Investigation of supporting and restraining factors for instituting collaborative practice in a community hospital
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Oleson, Kathy J.
Date 1984-06
Description The purpose of this study was to determine the feasibility of instituting collaborative practice in the Intensive Care Unit of a community hospital. The conceptual framework for the study was based on Kurt Lewin's theory of Force Field Analysis. Determining the forces involved in a setting, and categorizing them as restraining or supporting forces provide information for effecting change. From a force field analysis, a determination can be made of whether or not a change is actually possible. Restraining and supporting forces were identified by administering questionnaires to nurses, physicians, and administrative personnel who would be involved in or affect by change. Evaluations of the questionnaires as to supporting, restraining or neutral were completed by a panel of six judges. The panel included a Director of Nursing, Director of Continuing Education, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Medical director of an Intensive Care Unit, a physician who was one of the highest admitters to an Intensive Care Unit over a period of one year, and the Director of Institutional Research in the hospital being studied. Results of the study supported the feasibility of implementing collaborative practice in a small community hospital in Ogden, Utah.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Organization and Administration; Nurse-Physician Joint Practice; Utah; Odgen
Subject MESH Hospitals, Community; Intensive Care Units; Nursing Care; Physicians
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "An investigation of supporting and restraining factors for instituting collaborative practice in a community hospital". Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "An investigation of supporting and restraining factors for instituting collaborative practice in a community hospital". available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. R 117.5 1984 O43.
Rights Management © Kathy J. Oleson.
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 2,065,206 bytes
Identifier undthes,4573
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
Master File Extent 2,065,275 bytes
ARK ark:/87278/s6pc3460
Setname ir_etd
ID 191097
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pc3460
Back to Search Results