Organizational health

A couple of years ago, I had three part time jobs in differentparts of the National Health Service, and I also had three dictatingmachines. For some reason, dictating machines have never becomestandardized, and since the NHS isn't very standardized either,I needed a different type of machine for each job. By an oddcoincidence, all three machines happened to break down at aroundthe same time, so I put in requests for a replacement in eachof my workplaces. What happened next was instructive. In workplace     

Organizational ethics

Organizational ethics is a relatively recent concept in medical ethics that has many applications to emergency medicine. It encompasses the ethical values and practices of the organization. Emergency medicine organizations have particular challenges because of the need to integrate physician values and practices with those of the hospital and practice management entities. The three basic elements of an organizational ethics program are education, consultation, and policy development/review. To be successful, organizational ethics programs need to be interwoven into the comprehensive organizational plan, and a major focus of leaders in the day-to-day management of the emergency medicine organization.     

Organizational learning

This article presents the reader with conceptual close-up view about the attractive topic organizational apprenticeship and includes and extensive bibliographical file. Therefore, due to the author's effort, we chronologically trace those authors who have contributed to conceptualizing the aforementioned apprenticeship, with particular emphasis on the writings by Paul Senge, the so-called father of the "fifth discipline. This theoretical close-up helps apply organizational apprenticeship to nursing.