The Unseen Force

Voelpel, Patricia E.

doi:10.1097/00000446-199703000-00049

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“…Like medicine, many in nursing and related allied health fields report an emotional attraction to the career-a ''calling'' (Rognstad & Polit, 2002). This is often most closely associated with the nurturing aspects of the role, an orientation sometimes attributed to early experiences dealing with serious illness or abuse, either within themselves or a loved one (Biering, 1998;Clark & Stoffel, 1992;Kersten, Bakewell, & Meyer, 1991;Voelpel, 1997).…”

Section: Who Selects This Professionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Worldviews in collision: conflict and collaboration across professional lines

Garman

Leach

Spector³

2006

J Organ Behavior

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SummaryThe process of providing health services in hospitals is inherently interdisciplinary; many of the challenges to enhancing quality and safety involve the human aspects of this interdisciplinary system. Each of the major disciplines-physicians, nurses, allied health providers, and health administrators-represent qualitatively distinct sets of goals and professional values, influencing not only current behavior but also who chooses these roles in the first place. Once a career is selected, the educational process further fortifies these differences, such that new professionals enter the workplace with fundamentally divergent perspectives on how care should be provided and how processes should be improved. These differences are in some ways functional but in other ways create work patterns that are both dysfunctional and very puzzling to outsiders. In this paper, we provide a guide to hospital organizational behavior through the lenses of professional preparation and interprofessional conflict. We review research on career choice, education, and cross-disciplinary teamwork in healthcare, and end with a set of implications for organizational behavior researchers.

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confidence: 99%