Abstract:

OBJECTIVE: This study was done to find out the subjects and results of nurses’ silences who are working in private hospitals. METHODS: The study was designed as a descriptive and cross-sectional study. The population of the study includes all nurses in 4 private hospitals who have been working at least 6 months at the same hospital and accepted to participate into the study (n=220). In this study the questionnaire is about nurses’ personal and professional characteristics, organizational structure and their attitudes toward talking about problems plus an Organizational Silence Scale was used to collect data. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistical methods and Kruskal Wallis, Mann Whitney U and independent sample t -test were used in independent variables. RESULTS: Most of the nurses are happy with their organizations (78.6%), able to talk with their managers comfortably (75.5%) and share problems mostly with their charge nurses (59.5%). Nurses who are working at non-accredited hospitals, hold a head nurse position, who are unhappy about work and thinking about leaving, unable to talk with their manager, had a fear of isolation and are unable to get a promotion are being silent about some of the following topics "ethics and responsibilities, management problems, employee performance, enhancement efforts and working conditions". Nurses who are unhappy with their organization and thinking about leaving are silent because of organizational and management problems. Also it was determined that nurses who are thinking about leaving are being silent because of fear, lack of experience, isolation and fear of harming relations. CONCLUSION: In order to prevent organizational silence and raise the intentions of nurses to stay within organization, nurse managers need to develop open communication environments both with their superiors and subordinates in order to contribute to have a better work environment.

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