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Chelseaamend

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With the new career ladder in place, the hospital expects nurse managers to attend budget meetings, prepare staffing schedules, and enroll in a health management systems graduate program. One nurse manager with three small children is at high risk for:
 
  a. Role theory
  b. Role structure
  c. Role learning
  d. Role stress

Question 2

The nurse manager attempted to help staff members adjust to the new organizational merger by explaining the need for changes and modeling tolerance of these changes. The nurse manager demonstrated what type of tolerance?
 
  a. Cognitive dissonance
  b. Tolerance of others
  c. Tolerance of ambiguity
  d. Tolerance of insolubility



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Role stress or role dissonance is caused by a difference between role enactment and role expectations. The greater the difference, the greater the stress.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Tolerance of ambiguity involves at least three factors: tolerance of novelty, tolerance of complexity, and tolerance of insolubility.



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