THEORY, REALITY, SURVIVAL: AN ORGANIZATIONAL ANALYSIS OF A NURSE-MANAGED NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER.
Contributors: University Of Illinois At Chicago, Health Sciences Center.
Published: 1986
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: 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.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-08, Section: B, page: 3295.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, 1986.

School code: 0806.