title: Achieving quality improvement in the nursing home: influence of nursing leadership on communication and teamwork.
abstract: Leadership, communication, and teamwork are essential elements of organizational capacity and are linked to organizational performance. How those organizations actually achieve improved performance, however, is not clearly understood. In this comparative case study, nursing leadership who facilitated open communication and teamwork achieved improvement while nursing leadership who impeded open communication and teamwork did not.
authors.affiliation: Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA. vogelsmeiera@missouri.edu
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vogelsmeier
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Scott-Cawiezell
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007857:Leadership; D008508:Medication Errors / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control; D009735:Nursing Homes / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015279:Organizational Culture; D058996:Quality Improvement