Case #1086.0

Beyond "Mama Management": Redefining the Role of the Nursing Administrator in the Operating Room of the Southern California Multispeciality Center

Publication Date: January 01, 1991
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Abstract:
This is a case about retrenchment forced upon an institution--a premier specialty hospital--whose staff had thought itself virtually immune from economic pressures. A battle is joined specifically as a result of the decision by a new vice-president for nursing that changes staffing patterns in the hospital operating rooms. When that decision leads the new vice-president to ask her handpicked new director of operating room nursing to lay off employees, the process shocks the hospital.

Learning Objective:
The case is designed to provide a vehicle for scrutinizing organizational change needs and the implementation, by management, of such changes.

Other Details

Case Author:
David Eddy
Faculty Lead:
Marc Roberts
Pages (incl. exhibits):
26
Setting:
United States
Language:
English
Funding Source:
Commonwealth Fund