Staff Nurses' Perception toward teamwork and its relationship to organizational commitment in Critical care units

Abstract

Teamwork among patient care teams can have positive effects on work environment, job satisfaction, and quality of patient care. The present study aimed to identifying the relationship between staff nurses' perception toward teamwork and their organizational commitment in critical care units through assessing staff nurses' Perception towards teamwork and determining the level of their organizational commitment, and finding out the relationship between staff nurses' Perception toward teamwork and their commitment for the organization. This study was carried out at El-Kharga General hospital in Newvally governorate which affiliated to ministry of health. Seventy staff nurses were included in this study. Two tools were used for collecting data namely; Self-administered questionnaire sheet; team STEPPS Teamwork Perception Questionnaire and Organizational Commitment Questionnaire. The results demonstrate that nearly three quarter of the study subjects were perceived teamwork, staff nurses were more perceived teamwork by Communication and Situation monitoring followed by Team skills, ended by Leadership, as regarding to organizational commitment, about two thirds of staff nurses were committed for their organization, the staff nurses were more committed by Feeling of experience followed by Identity Identification, and ended by Equity. The study concluded to that there was a highly positive relation between nurses' perception of teamwork and nurses' organizational commitment (p ˂0.000, r = 0.609). So the study recommended that: Conducting workshops and training programs for managers and supervisors about teamwork and it's important for quality of health care focusing on leadership styles as a method to enhancing overall teamwork. Necessary training and educational program about organizational commitment were also recommended, more efforts and cares are needed to seeks about how to exist investment among nurses through conducting a regular meeting of administrators with their nurses to discuss the problems and all issues concerning their work and identifying the area that needed to enhance for achieving nurses commitment.