Rapidly changing healthcare environment and professional nursing practice need a strategy for the organizational development and goal attainment. An understanding of organizational cultuze could help managers enhance or expend their management strategy, thus increasing the probability of their success in the organization.
On the other hand, organizational culture is an abstract concept and can show several views between sciences applying it. Therefore, organizational culture can be described to different ways with roots in each other discipline. Thus, it is necessary to define the concept of organizational culture in nursing perspective.
This article reports a study conducted to analyze the concept of Nursing Service Organizational Culture. This study is performed by the guideline of Walker and Avant for concept analysis ~ selecting a concept, detering aim of analysis, identifying all use of concept, defining attributes, constructing model, contrary, borderline, related cases, identifying antecedents and consequences.
According to the results of this study, the following definition attributes of Nursing Service Organi~:ational Culture was suggested.
We could define that nursing service organizationa.i culture is the pattern of basic assumption and ~~ommon belief that shared by the subordinates of nL~rsing service. So, it provides a shared identity for all employees.
Attributes of Nursing Service Organizational Culture were defined as
①it is performed by the result of the interaction through formal, informal communication among nursing service organizational subordinations.
②it has been performed unconsciously and reacts with~~ut ever thinking about the behavior.
③it makes a unique pattern of behaviors to each nursing organization, which is different from other groups.
④it has a broad and subtle forces to its subor dinates.
⑤it provides subordinates with the way of thought and behavior.
⑥it influences on the output, stability. and de velopmE~nt of nursing service.
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