Abstract
The purpose of this study was to describe and analyze the development of Erie Family Health Center as a nurse-managed, community health center. Analysis focuses on those factors within the organization itself and in the external environment which facilitated or impeded agency survival and growth. The factors are identified and analyzed from the perspective of the nurse administrator. Erie Family Health Center, a limited service medical clinic, was developed into a multiple site, comprehensive, community health center between 1977 and 1985. Administrative and programmatic leadership was provided by master's prepared nurses. Factors contributing to the survival and growth of this organization included: (1) acquisition of scarce financial and personnel resources; (2) preservation of agency autonomy; (3) a shared staff ideology and espirit de corps; (4) an increased level of agency prestige; and (5) a flexible organizational structure. Various strategies utilized by the nurse administrator in the management of the agency and the organizational environment are discussed.
Sigma Membership
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Type
Dissertation
Format Type
Text-based Document
Study Design/Type
Case Study/Series
Research Approach
Qualitative Research
Keywords:
Community Nursing, Nurse Management, Health Care Center Management
Advisor
Beverly McElmurry
Degree
PhD
Degree Grantor
University of Illinois Chicago
Degree Year
1986
Recommended Citation
Lundeen, Sally P., "Theory, reality, survival: An organizational analysis of a nurse-managed neighborhood health center" (2020). Dissertations. 945.
https://www.sigmarepository.org/dissertations/945
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Review Type
None: Degree-based Submission
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Proxy-submission
Date of Issue
2020-06-19
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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 8622075; ProQuest document ID: 303565382. The author still retains copyright.