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Nancy is a staff nurse who works on a rehabilitation unit. Nancy tells you that the assistants are experiencing difficulty with the new lift and wonders what your thoughts are on organizing an in-service training.
 
  Nancy is exhibiting which trait of a follower?
 
  a. Provides a vision for safety that is communicated
  b. Thrives on taking risks in identifying the problem with safety
  c. Coordinates the development of knowledge and skills necessary to use the lift
  d. Assumes responsibility for identifying a safety concern and concedes authority for solution to you

Question 2

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 because 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 request an opportunity to meet with administration to discuss options.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Communication of a vision and risk taking are leader traits, whereas coordination is associated with manager traits. Taking responsibility while conceding authority to the leader is characteristic of followers.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: 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 organizing a following of other nurse managers with similar concerns.



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