Question

As a new administrator, you maintain an open door policy to your staff and work to strengthen the nursing shared governance structure. Which type of cultural dimension does this exhibit?

Answer 1

APPLICATION OF CULTURAL DIMENSIONS IN NURSING PRACTICE

INTRODUCTION

​​​" Culture" can be defined as the way of life characterizing a particular society.The same way nursing care also consist of certain cultural dimensions inorder to provide a comprehensive care for the client .

CULTURAL DIMENSIONS IN NURSING PRACTICE

According to sociology and political researchers there are four basic cultural dimensions

1. Power- distance (PDI): it measures the perception of satisfaction within a society
2. Individualism versus collectivism ( IDV): it includes the strength of ties between the individual and a group.
3. Masculinity versus Feminity( MAS):Male and female gender roles and competitive behaviour
4. Uncertainty Avoidence (UAI): Ability of a society to tolerate ambiguity or uncertainty

Among these four dimensions above mentioned situation exihibits shared nursing governance which means we are dealing with Individualism versus Collectivism .

Inorder to provide comprehensive care to clients we need to adopt team approach rather than individualistic approach which enables certain advantages in the provision of care exampls like;

• Inorder to achieve long-term goals it's higly effective
• Team approach or collective approch reduces work stress among health workers.
• It improves co-ordination and co-operation between health team members.

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