Building an organizational culture of caring: caring perceptions enhanced with education.
BACKGROUND
This pilot study was undertaken to determine whether an educational intervention called Reigniting the Spirit of Caring (RSC) from Creative Healthcare Management would enhance perceptions of caring behaviors among nurses. A pretest/posttest within-subjects research design was used to evaluate the educational intervention.


METHODS
Investigators used the licensed RSC program as the educational intervention. This study included 36 registered nurses employed in one Midwestern hospital.


RESULTS
Statistical differences were found in the pretest and posttest measurement of nurses' perceptions of caring behaviors.


CONCLUSIONS
The RSC program can be used as an effective educational intervention to increase nurses' perceptions of caring, and the Caring Assessment for the Caregiver tool can be used as an effective tool to measure nurses' perceptions of caring behaviors.
Glembocki
Margaret M
MM
Crittenton Hospital, Rochester, Michigan, USA.
Dunn
Karen S
KS
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003479:Curriculum; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006272:Health Facility Environment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015146:Midwestern United States; D016294:Models, Nursing; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D015402:Nursing Education Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D015279:Organizational Culture; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires