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When nurses portray an attitude that their cultural group is superior to another, it is known as practicing the concept of cultural:

The staffing method used when units are staffed below maximum workload conditions and staff is then supplemented when needed is called:

A health care management continuum:

Nurses utilize _____ through critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills to determine when and how to apply evidence-based knowledge.

The stage of group development where control issues arise and disputes or disagreements begin to emerge is the _____ stage.

Which of the following scenarios would require disease management?

Which organizational theory emphasized the informal aspects of organization social structure and was influenced by the Hawthorne experiments?

The nurse manager determines that communication style is contributing to problems with delegation on her unit. What tool is used to teach principles of communication, leadership, situation monitoring, and mutual support?

According to the _____ organizational approach, organizations are logical and predictable with identifiable and scientifically measurable characteristics that can be predicted, observed, or manipulated.

An experienced critical care nurse left a CCU staff nurse position to finish a master’s degree. Periodically, he would return to work as a per diem nurse in the CCU. The staff was impressed with the nurse’s performance; however, one staff member complained that he was unfamiliar with the new telemetry monitors when he first returned to work several months ago. This comment showed up in his evaluation, resulting in a poorer overall evaluation from the nurse manager compared with previous evaluations. This is an example of: