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nautica902

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As a nurse manager, you identify that a shift in nursing care models might increase patient and staff satisfaction and avoid downsizing. Administration is reluctant to adopt this approach be-cause downsizing is seen as critical to reduction of costs.
 
  To leverage your ideas, you: a. Ask staff to send e-mails to administration encouraging consideration of your option.
  b. Invite a senior member of administration to your staff meeting, so you can tell him what you are planning.
  c. Write a letter of complaint to a member of the institutional board about the lack of openness of the administration.
  d. Identify influential members of your nurse manager group with similar ideas and re-quest an opportunity to meet with admin-istration to discuss options.

Question 2

The transfer of authority, responsibility, and freedom to act and inspiring self-confidence is known as ____.
 
  a. Actualization
  b. Authorization
  c. Empowerment
  d. Ratification



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Answer to Question 1

D
Staff members often look to nurse managers to lead them in addressing workplace issues with higher levels of administration. To do this, nurse managers must possess the ability to address power sources in the work environment and to define power-based strategies, such as in orga-nizing a following of other nurse managers with similar concerns.

Answer to Question 2

C
Empowerment is the transfer of actual power and inspiring self-confidence (Kramer & Schma-lenberg, 1990).



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