<b>Organizational culture and research among nurse clinicians</b> - doi: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v11i5.17053

Abstract

This paper, while focusing on a historical-structural context of a school hospital, describes the process of implementing the Group for Research in Nursing (NUPE), a research consulting service at a school hospital, highlighting its performance and identifying structural and educational actions occurred in this period concerning the development of research by nurses. It is an ethnographic case study that aimed to portray a unit in action. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with the Nursing director, the NUPE secretary and employee nurses, along with document analysis, statements and field diary. Data was analyzed according to the hermeneutic-dialectic method. Since NUPE was created, the nurses and the research consulting service sided by the Nursing Board’s administrative actions made a move towards the concretization of the investigative activity in order to project it into organizational context. Regarding health care services, conceiving the development of research in favor of knowledge production and professional development requires an organizational culture change through innovation, time and interest of all the subjects involved.