Xu Jiamin, Stark Azadeh T
Department of Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Lishui University, Lishui, China.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA.
BMC Nurs. 2021 Aug 17;20(1):148. doi: 10.1186/s12912-021-00660-w.
Research has confirmed the importance of workplace social capital in the nursing workforce. Integration of the empirical evidence about nurses' workplace social capital into a scientific collection can provide a comprehensive presentation of this concept. This scientific collection can be a conduit for further research and advancement of nursing management and leadership. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to discuss the process of developing a conceptual model of nurses' workplace social capital, an effective and concise approach to illustrate a scientific phenomenon.
The model of nurses' workplace social capital was developed following Walker and Avant's strategy of theory synthesis. Empirical evidence relevant to nurses' workplace social capital was synthesized by systematically examining the existing literature. PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science and Google Scholar were searched periodically from October 2017 to July 2020.
Our proposed conceptual model lays out the determinants and outcomes of nurses' workplace social capital and specifies the relational statements among these concepts. Nurses' workplace social capital is influenced by the organizational and individual determinants shaped by multiple layers of sub-concepts. The development and implementation of nurses' workplace social capital has three themes of consequences: 1) nurses' outcomes; 2) patients' outcomes; and 3) organizational outcomes. All the concepts and statements have been organized and aligned with the principles of "inventory of determinants or results" and "theoretical blocks".
Our theoretical synthesis offers a comprehensive picture of the current knowledge of nurses' workplace social capital. Efforts should be dedicated to evaluating, revising, and revamping this newly developed model based on future empirical evidence. Our synthesized conceptual model is the segue to more comprehensive studies about nurses' workplace social capital. Interventional programs for the development of social capital can be structured based on the identified determinants.
研究已证实工作场所社会资本在护理人员队伍中的重要性。将有关护士工作场所社会资本的实证证据整合到一个科学集合中，可以全面呈现这一概念。这个科学集合可以成为护理管理和领导力进一步研究与发展的渠道。因此，本文的目的是讨论构建护士工作场所社会资本概念模型的过程，这是一种有效且简洁的方法来阐释一种科学现象。
护士工作场所社会资本模型是按照沃克和阿万特的理论综合策略构建的。通过系统审查现有文献，对与护士工作场所社会资本相关的实证证据进行了综合。在2017年10月至2020年7月期间定期检索了PubMed、CINAHL、科学引文索引和谷歌学术。
我们提出的概念模型列出了护士工作场所社会资本的决定因素和结果，并明确了这些概念之间的关系陈述。护士工作场所社会资本受到由多层子概念塑造的组织和个体决定因素的影响。护士工作场所社会资本的发展和实施有三个后果主题：1）护士的结果；2）患者的结果；3）组织的结果。所有概念和陈述都已按照“决定因素或结果清单”和“理论模块”的原则进行了组织和排列。
我们的理论综合提供了护士工作场所社会资本当前知识的全面图景。应致力于根据未来的实证证据对这个新开发的模型进行评估、修订和完善。我们综合的概念模型是迈向关于护士工作场所社会资本更全面研究的前奏。可以根据已确定的决定因素构建社会资本发展的干预项目。
