Organizational Culture: Life or Death

1. The values driving the doctors and nurses rely extensively on organization. This skill helps the short window of time (90 minutes or less) from which patients can be saved from severe myocardial damage lengthens, in that the time will be used more productively. As they are dealing with the life of the people, a great co-ordination is required at the work. Flexibility, communication, hard work, sensitivity towards the patients, no blame culture, commitment to reduce delays, support for quality refinement and work ethics are very important values that seems to be driving the doctors and nurses to treat the patients in these hospitals. Employing several poignant tasks using the efficiency of group communication has made these hospitals have more success.

2. In order for any team to work together in the best manner, each individual member must believe in and follow through with the group's thinking. If even one member does not, then the efficiency of the system might fail to perform. Especially in a situation such as this one where lives are at stake, each member must clearly know and understand what the group's goal is and perform to fulfill that goal. The real-time data feed-back and commitments to reduce delay bring integrity to the entire work process there by demanding the work habit of doctors and nurses to fall in line.

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