title: Understanding work group culture on rehabilitation units: the key to facilitating group innovation and promoting integration.
abstract: Understanding work group culture is essential for the smooth running of today's complex rehabilitation units. Failure to understand a unit's culture can impede necessary care delivery innovations and impair group integration. This article describes the phenomenon of work group culture and offers suggestions for assessing and understanding a given unit's culture. It also illustrates how an understanding of work group culture can facilitate innovation by reframing and tailoring a change and can promote integration by helping nurses adjust to a new unit.
authors.forename: H V
authors.initials: HV
authors.lastname: Coeling
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Simms
mesh_terms: D004059:Diffusion of Innovation; D006126:Group Processes; D006757:Hospital Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D012046:Rehabilitation / Q000451:nursing*; D012933:Social Identification; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires