title: Staff Nurse Decisional Involvement in the United States and Turkey.
abstract: The purpose of this descriptive comparative study is to compare the levels of decisional involvement of staff nurses between one Midwestern health care system in the United States with a nongovernmental University hospital in Turkey. The Decisional Involvement Scale was used for data collection. U.S. ( n = 163) and Turkey ( n = 50) staff nurses were included in the study. Both samples preferred more decisional involvement than they currently experienced. However, Turkish nurses experienced and preferred lower levels of decisional involvement than the U.S.
  
  
  
  Shared governance structures may be a strategy used to enhance staff nurse decisional involvement.
authors.affiliation: 1 Acibadem University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Esra
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ugur
authors.affiliation: 2 Winona State University, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Cindy A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Scherb
authors.affiliation: 3 The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA.
authors.forename: Janet P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Specht
authors.affiliation: 4 Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Sevim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sen
authors.affiliation: 5 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Lydia K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Lazzara
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D011209:Power, Psychological; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D014421:Turkey; D014481:United States; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards
keywords: decisional involvement; shared governance; work environment