Introducing the Vice Syndrome Theory (VST): A Model of Nursing Administration
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2021
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Scholars Middle East Publishers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care
Abstract
Among the many contributions of Professor Rasidi Akinade Salawu to nursing profession in Nigeria, is his introduction into nursing of a model about the prevailing administrative and managerial environment in nursing. Although not formally documented all these years, many nurse managers, his colleagues as well as students (like us) who have encountered him have informally experienced and applied the tenets of this model in their day-to-day running of their wards and units. Drawing from Management and Nursing Science philosophies, Rasidi Akinade Salawu developed the Vice Syndrome Theory which has led to a better understanding of the intrigues and patterns in the working relationships between heads of units/departments/organisations and their deputies within the nursing circles. This presentation aims at sensitising the nursing (and general) scientific world to increase the awareness of this model, and increase its acceptance
as an explanation for administrative processes and its application in a variety of research settings. This model has great potential to make nursing administration more robust with sound scientific explanations. It will be an alternative paradigm for describing, explaining and predicting and therefore controlling issues of leader-deputy (“boss-vice”) engagements.
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Nursing Theory paper.
Vice Syndrome Theory provides an understanding of the relationships that exist between nurse managers in the working space, particularly between heads of units/departments/organisations and their deputies. The theory is presented for further interrogation by nurse researchers and others because it has a great potential to make nursing administration more robust with sound scientific explanations. The issues of leader-deputy (“boss-vice”) engagements in nursing has been speculatively diverse.
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Nursing administration, theory, leadership, Vice, Deputy, Boss, nursing knowledge
Citation
39.Anyebe, E.E., Arogundade, T.A., Popoola, R.A., and Bello, B.D. (2021). Introducing the Vice Syndrome Theory (VST): A Model of Nursing Administration; Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care (a publication of Scholars Middle East Publishers, Dubai, United Arab Emirates): 461-465