This article presents one of the many objectives of a doctorate thesis, oriented towards identifying and describing the institutional values and principles perceived as predominant by nurses and medical practitioners in three hospitals in Bogota. For this reason, a qualitative study of thegrounded theory sort,was carried out, including 49 in-depth interviews with medical practitioners and registerednurses ofthreehospitalslocated in Bogota: one public, one private and one pertaining to a specialregimen of Colombia’s armed forces and police. The results of the afore mentioned study suggest that five predominant values exist in the hospitals: efficiency, hierarchy, image, quality of care and the individual (be it as a patient or as a client). Recommendations are formulated for profesional development, education, research and hospitals.
Arango Bayer, G. L. (2016). Organizational values according to physicians and nurses in three Hospital centers of Bogota. Acta Bioethica, 22(1). Retrieved from https://adnz.uchile.cl/index.php/AB/article/view/41716
