title: Using an organizational culture analysis to design interventions for change.
abstract: CULTURAL ASSESSMENTS can be used to make overall generalizations about an organization's culture, identify recommendations for change, create an intervention design to implement change, and develop a communication plan to support implementation. THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES a cultural assessment of an organization. The perioperative manager and staff members used data, theoretical concepts, and relevant research to identify and implement an organizational change for a medical center's perioperative area.
authors.affiliation: Good Samaritan-Legacy Healthcare System, Portland OR, USA.
authors.forename: Lydia L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Forsythe
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009922:Oregon; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013503:Surgery Department, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*