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mp14 · **on:** Jul 8, 2018

A manager of a busy surgical care center is working on his annual budget. Nursing has suggested a need for a new blanket warmer to keep blankets warm for clients when they arrive to the operating room.

The last budget meeting required a 10 reduction in proposed items. The manager elects to keep the blanket warmer in the budget. What major task of the manager best describes the review and purchase of budgeted items that the surgery center needs?

A) Ability to work with people
B) Assuring smooth workflow processes
C) Efficiently using resources
D) Communicating clearly

Question 2

A chief nursing officer in a busy, downtown, urban hospital has a major collaborative vision regarding nursing and would like to see the vision become reality by the year 2015.

The chief nursing officer creates a plan to communicate the vision and to empower individual nurses to help meet the goals and objectives that accompany it. Which of the following three keys to empowering people within an organization is defined as trusting people with information so they can act responsibly with it?

A) Assisting in releasing motivation employees possess
B) Creating autonomy through boundaries
C) Replacing the traditional hierarchy with self-directed teams
D) Sharing information