TY  - JOUR
TI  - Nurses’ Perceptions of Clinical Governance Climate
AB  - Background: Clinical governance climate is a governance approach that aims at supporting
communication and interaction, minimizing errors, and continually improving and developing
service process in organizations.
Methods: The study population was composed of 1845 nurses working at public, university,
and private hospitals in Trabzon Province. The sample was composed of 315 nurses recruited
using a stratified sampling method. Data were collected using Information Request Form
and Clinical Governance Climate Questionnaire.
Results: According to the nurses, the clinical governance climate score of hospitals was
182.62 ± 28.32 (min = 60, max = 300). In the study, it was found that the average total score
and the sub-scale scores of the clinical governance climate of those nurses who were (1)
aged ≤25 years and ≥36 years; (2) were female; (3) worked in managerial positions; (4) chose
the clinical service where they were employed willingly; (5) were satisfied with the clinical
service, nursing profession, and managers; (6) cared for 11-20 patients in a shift, knew what
clinical governance was; and (7) joined trainings/meetings about clinical governance were
significantly and statistically different as compared to other nurses (P < .05).
Conclusion: Nurses regarded and assessed the clinical governance climate of the hospitals
where they worked as moderate. As a result of the study, it was recommended that educations
and trainings about clinical governance climate be provided to nurses; interventions
that will maximize their satisfaction be made; they be given the chance to choose the clinical
servicers where they will work; and the number of patients be kept balanced.
AU  - KÖROĞLU KABA, NAGİHAN
AU  - Öztürk, Havva
DO  - 10.5152/jern.2022.54289
PY  - 2022
JO  - Journal of education and research in nursing (Online)
VL  - 19
IS  - 2
SN  - 2757-9204
SP  - 198
EP  - 207
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/529751
ER  -