he staff members in a local ER are experiencing stress/burnout as a result of excessive overtime. The staff decides to unionize to negotiate for better working conditions. The increase in unionization within healthcare may be attributed to?
Number of people involved in healthcare
A manager ...
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The staff members in a local ER are experiencing stress/burnout as a
result of excessive overtime. The staff decides to unionize to
negotiate for better working conditions. The increase in
unionization within healthcare may be attributed to?
Number of people involved in healthcare
A manager of a nursing unit is having difficulty working with a new
grad nurse. What is the nurse manager practicing in this situation?
The nurse manager decides to journal her feelings regarding the
new nurse and her feelings. What is the nurse manager practicing in
this situation?
Reflection
At a second negotiation session the unit manager and staff nurse
are unable to reach a resolution. What is the appropriate next step?
Elevate the next negation session to the next manager one level
above.
A nurse manager of a 20 bed medical unit finds that 80% of the pt's
are older adults, she is asked to assess and adapt the unit to better
meet the unique needs of the older adult pts. Using the complexity
principles, what is the best approach to make implementation of
this change?
Engage involved staff at all levels in the decision-making processes
In the early decades of the profession, nurses lacked power
because...?
Women lacked legal, social, and political power because of legal and
cultural barriers.
As a nurse manager, you are the leader and follower in health care
and on the unit you manage. Looking at the large picture of
healthcare and patient environment on the unit, what is the primary
role of the followers of the unit, as defined in nursing?
Direct care provider
, The manager of a surgical area has a vision for the future that
requires the addition of RN assistants or unlicensed persons to feed,
bathe, and ambulate patients. The RNs on the staff have always
practiced the primary nursing-delivery system and are very
resistant to this idea. What would be the best initial strategy for
implementation of change?
Exploring the values and feelings of the RN group in relationship to
this change
The definition of leader refers to a person who has the ability to
guide people. IN nursing, the leader does more. What is NOT a role
of a leader in nursing? (The role of leaders in nursing is
accountability in decisions, active listening, open communication).
Tight control of decisions
A grievance (complaint) brought by staff against the unit manager
requires mediation. At the first mediation session, the staff nurse
repeatedly calls the unit manager's actions unfair, and the unit
manager continues to reiterate the reasons for her actions. What
would be the best course of action at this time?
Ask each party to examine their own motives in the conflict
When interviewing an applicant for an RN position, the nurse
manager describes the unit's care delivery system as one in which
nursing assistants are cross trained to perform specific tasks; RNs
all complete treatment, medication administration and discharge
teaching. The nurse applicant knows this nursing care delivery
strategy to be ...?
Functional nursing
The ER nurses' decision to organize for the purpose of collecting
bargaining is being driven by a desire to...? (NOT PERSONAL!)
Create professional practice environment
Your CNO listens to nurse managers verbalize their feelings of
internal stress. One common source of internal stress seems to
be...?
Perfectionism
As a new nurse manager, you are aware of leadership, management,
and followership principles. The concept of followership is rather
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