The impact of organizational culture on faculty and staff feelings of sense of belonging and inclusivity in a school of nursing
Title
The impact of organizational culture on faculty and staff feelings of sense of belonging and inclusivity in a school of nursing
Creator
Gorder, Teri
Description
Gorder, Teri
Nurse faculty play a critical role in educating bedside nurses to care for our populations. As the global nursing shortage has received prominent attention, the growing nurse educator shortage has not been a focal point of discussion. The nurse faculty shortage is reaching a critical point with burnout, retirement, low compensation, increased teaching demands, lack of support, and inability to achieve work-life balance. This project aimed to impact a school of nursing’s organizational culture using transformational leadership strategies, impacting faculty and staff team feelings of sense of belonging and inclusivity through increasing communication, relationships, and transparency. The DNP quality improvement project, using a mixed methods approach, studied the effect of implementing transformational leadership using a pretest-posttest design. Statistical significance was achieved on the Sense of Belonging Scale (Imperial College of London, 2021) from pretest scores (M = 3.679, SD = 7.721) to posttest scores (M = 3.830, SD = 8.140, t(8) = -3.531, p =.003, two-tailed) and the Watson Caritas Organizational Culture Scale ((Watson & Brewer, 2021) pretest scores (M = 3.866, SD = 4.010) to posttest scores (M = 3.972, SD = 4.296, t (3) = -3.959, p =.029, two-tailed). No statistical significance was achieved on the Global Transformational Leadership (Carless et al., 2000) scale pretest scores (M = 3.81, SD = 6.19) to posttest scores (M = 3.89, SD = 6.30, t (5) = -1.46, p =.203, two-tailed). The findings highlight the importance of organizational culture and the effectiveness of transformational leadership. Future research is needed, focused on nurse educators, to provide the quality education needed for future nurses.
Nurse faculty play a critical role in educating bedside nurses to care for our populations. As the global nursing shortage has received prominent attention, the growing nurse educator shortage has not been a focal point of discussion. The nurse faculty shortage is reaching a critical point with burnout, retirement, low compensation, increased teaching demands, lack of support, and inability to achieve work-life balance. This project aimed to impact a school of nursing’s organizational culture using transformational leadership strategies, impacting faculty and staff team feelings of sense of belonging and inclusivity through increasing communication, relationships, and transparency. The DNP quality improvement project, using a mixed methods approach, studied the effect of implementing transformational leadership using a pretest-posttest design. Statistical significance was achieved on the Sense of Belonging Scale (Imperial College of London, 2021) from pretest scores (M = 3.679, SD = 7.721) to posttest scores (M = 3.830, SD = 8.140, t(8) = -3.531, p =.003, two-tailed) and the Watson Caritas Organizational Culture Scale ((Watson & Brewer, 2021) pretest scores (M = 3.866, SD = 4.010) to posttest scores (M = 3.972, SD = 4.296, t (3) = -3.959, p =.029, two-tailed). No statistical significance was achieved on the Global Transformational Leadership (Carless et al., 2000) scale pretest scores (M = 3.81, SD = 6.19) to posttest scores (M = 3.89, SD = 6.30, t (5) = -1.46, p =.203, two-tailed). The findings highlight the importance of organizational culture and the effectiveness of transformational leadership. Future research is needed, focused on nurse educators, to provide the quality education needed for future nurses.
Date
2025
Publisher
Alverno College
Extent
180 pages
Language
English
Format
PDF
Type
Text
DNP Project
Subject
Nurse educators
Nursing schools--Faculty
Transformational leadership
Belonging (Social psychology)
Organizational culture
Sense of belonging
Inclusivity
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Citation
Gorder, Teri, “The impact of organizational culture on faculty and staff feelings of sense of belonging and inclusivity in a school of nursing,” Alverno College Library Digital Commons, accessed June 14, 2026, https://alverno.omeka.net/items/show/990.