Building social capital in healthcare organizations: Thinking ecologically for safer care

Social Capital and Risk Management in Nursing

“…Nursing leaders can take concrete steps to enhance social capital: Building groups and networks enables people to access resources and collaborate to achieve shared goals. 31 Empowering nurses leads to higher levels of organizational trust. Nurse leaders should examine whether patterns of mistrust exist between teams or among groups and track how the pattern of organizational governance positively supports or deters the maintenance of trust.…”

“…Nurse leaders should examine whether patterns of mistrust exist between teams or among groups and track how the pattern of organizational governance positively supports or deters the maintenance of trust. 31 Increasing social capital in hospitals requires in-house strategies for reinforcing a culture of trust and willingness to work together. Measures of organizational and team management should aim at creating a good working atmosphere, with willingness to provide mutual support and the pursuit of common values and objectives within a hospital.…”

“…Cohesion may be fostered through regular team or unit celebrations and events or through group professional development activities that optimize solidarity and improve communication. 31 Furthermore, team and organizational climate should be subject to regular performance reviews to prevent, identify, and reduce problems at an early stage. Research has shown that higher teamwork scores, for example, a supportive ward management and good interprofessional working relationships, are associated with higher levels of nurse-assessed quality of care and better ratings of patient satisfaction in inpatient care.…”

Social capital among healthcare professionals: A prospective study of its importance for job satisfaction, work engagement and engagement in clinical improvements

“…Improved trust, cooperation, 114 communication between professional groups and improvement of the work environment in 115operating rooms are generated from social capital(Waisel, 2005). Social capital in healthcare 116 organizations can also have an impact on patient safety(Hofmeyer and Marck, 2008). A 117 cross-sectional study indicated that increased trust also contributes to patient safety, and the 118 study showed that trust and patient safety were interrelated(Auer et al, 2014).…”

Representações sociais do processo de escolha de chefias na perspectiva da equipe de enfermagem

“…Nursing professionals as subjects, and nursing as an area of knowledge, have the opportunity to occupy a central place in these processes due to the scope and importance of their prac ce in the ins tu ons that operate healthcare policies with the users and other professionals. In this regard, the need is stressed for the moderniza on of the management prac ces and produc on of care processes in nursing from conceptual frameworks that take account of such a complex and dynamic system, with a view to crea ng a more democra c and par cipatory environment (1)(2)(3) . This no on refers to the assump on of leadership as a process that is guided by establishing a construc ve bond between the people and the environment, requiring con nuous learning grounded in rela onships of exchange in the name of the collec ve group (4)(5) .…”