Date of Award
Fall 12-10-2021
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Nursing Science (DNS)
Department
Nursing
Committee Chair/First Advisor
Richard Sowell
Committee Chair
Yvonne Eaves
Second Committee Member
Herman (Gene) Ray
Third Committee Member
Nancy Ballard
Abstract
The value of a healthcare organization is vested in the expertise, intellect, and wisdom of employees. Nursing knowledge resides both within the individual nurse and the collective knowledge embedded in organizational structures and practice environments. Healthcare organizations rely on their ability to utilize this knowledge to deliver high-quality care to patients. Hospitals wanting to gain a competitive advantage and achieve financial stability must be adept at acquiring, cultivating, and using the nursing knowledge stocks of the organization. When this knowledge can be utilized to mitigate healthcare issues and improve patients' health, this collective knowledge or intellectual capital is often the most critical organizational asset. Nursing intellectual capital is so vital because the work of professional nurses involves making critical life and death decisions. Like other intangible organizational assets, nursing knowledge is crucial to measure and manage to assist healthcare organizations in becoming high-performing entities. The purpose of this paper is to use a revised Nursing Intellectual Capital (NIC) Theory to evaluate the relationship between nursing intellectual capital and organizational performance, defined explicitly as nurse turnover. The revised NIC will be utilized to evaluate the relationship between quantitative measures of nursing intellectual capital and nurse turnover.
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