A Nursing Home and Its Organizational Climate: An Ethnography

by Bonnie Cashin Farmer

Nursing home reform, Professor Farmer asserts, calls for increased emphasis upon issues related to life rather than care. Organizational climate, which reflects the nursing home's unique position to impact life issues, provides a conceptual framework for effective interventions, evaluations, and ultimately meaningful reform.

The general atmosphere of most nursing homes remains overwhelmingly negative in spite of those few homes that are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865692629
• ISBN13: 9780865692626
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"