Leadership Skill and leaders' affective configuration as antecedents for neonatal care outcomes. In a second step, the unit's climate of safety and intra- as well as interprofessional collaboration should be considered to explain the association between management related factors and medical quality. Exploring Leadership Skill and Leaders’ Affective Configurations as Antecedents of Safety Climate and Climate for Collaboration, and their Effects on Neonatal Outcomes
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: Physician and nursing staff at the NICU are surveyed regarding aspects of safety and collaboration on their ward by use of a standardized questionnaire. One physician and nursing leader on e
Sponsors
Universität zu Köln Seminar für Allgemeine BWL und Management im Gesundheitswesen
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participating NICUs must be integrated within a level I or level II perinatal center. Participation of each NICU requires that both the physician and nursing leader confirm to participate by sending back a valid declaration form. Participants on the NICU level are physician and nursing staff. Participation requires staff to work on the NICU on a regular basis, meaning that only full-time staff or part-time workers with at least 50% of the regular working hours are included. Participants must be ranked among the NICU personnell, spare-men or staff that belongs to a cross-clinic personnell pool are hence not considered to particpate.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: none
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| This study focuses on associations between managament-related factors at the level of leadership and indicators of medical quality in neonatal intensive care units (NICU). Individual leadership skills, goal and value congruence, and interpersonal affects between the head physician and the head nurse on each unit are considered as management-related aspects in our research model. Statistically testing the relationship between management-related aspects on the one hand and medical quality of NICUs on the other is at the core of this study. Therefore, for each participating NICU public data on medical outcome will be obtained from the AQUA-Institute. The AQUA-Institute publishes a predefined set of risk adjusted neonatal quality indicators on an annual basis. Ultimately, Safety Climate and Climate for Collaboration are considered to explain the association between leadership skill and leader configuration and indicators of neonatal quality of care. Safety Climate and Climate for Collaboration are gathered via reliable and valid scales: Nembhard and Edmondson (2006) Team Psychological Climate; Chatman and Flynn (2001) Cooperative Norm Scale; Sexton et al. (2006) Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ). | — |
Countries
Germany
Contacts
Public ContactHendrik Hillen
Universität zu Köln Seminar für Allgemeine BWL und Management im Gesundheitswesen
Outcome results
None listed