Culture as a predictor of resistance to change: A study of competing values in a psychiatric nursing context

Health Policy

Volumn 114, Issue 2-3, 2014, Pages 156-162

  Johansson, Catrin ^a   Åström, Sture ^a,b   Kauffeldt, Anders ^a   Helldin, Lars ^c   Carlström, Eric ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY WEST   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NU Health Care Trollhattan   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

ICF; Organizational culture; Psychiatry; Resistance to change; Sweden

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO CHANGE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; MENTAL HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES QUESTIONNAIRE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESISTANCE TO CHANGE; RESISTANCE TO CHANGE SCALE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SWEDEN; WARD; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODEL; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NURSE; ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NURSING; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NURSES; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN;

EID: 84892680385     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.07.014     Document Type: Article

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