The chief nursing officer utilizes the hospital's workplace advocacy program to assist the overwhelmed Emergency Department staff. Workplace advocacy is designed to assist nurses by:

At the beginning of the shift, the RN charge nurse instructs an RN to care for a particular set of patients. Upon receiving and acknowledging their assignment, the RN assumes:

Read the scenario below and highlight the statement (by clicking the sentence) that does NOT demonstrate shared governance. Select all that apply.

The board of directors of a hospital engages in a strategic planning process for the implementation of a facility-wide change that especially affects the nursing department. The directors insist on hosting regular "closed-door" board meetings, in which affected staff members and stakeholders are prohibited to attend. Information from these meetings are kept confidential, inaccessible to anyone outside the meetings. The directors have scheduled periodic town hall meetings, inviting all stakeholders and employees within the organization to share their thoughts concerning the impending change. After months of planning, the board of directors considers the feedback gathered and makes an unexpected decision to which leaders of the nursing department were largely unaware.

By following a shared leadership model, the nurse manager believes that staff members will learn to function synergistically. Some teams function synergistically because members:

A nurse is caring for a client whose informed consent form has been signed in preparation for a procedure. The client states, "I have decided not to have the procedure." Which of the following actions should the nurse take?

A charge nurse is providing an in-service to a group of staff members on incivility. Which of the following situations should the nurse include as an example of lateral violence?

A nurse is teaching a class on ethical principles. The nurse should include that protecting a client's safety by not causing harm refers to which of the following ethical principles?

A nurse is instructing a newly licensed nurse about the scope and standards of nursing practice. Which of the following characteristics best describes standards of practice?

A nurse manager is utilizing the strategic planning process to facilitate a planned change. After completing an environmental scan and SWOT analysis, which of the following actions best characterizes the next phase in the strategic planning process?

At a staff meeting, a nurse manager introduces a new, cutting-edge voice communication device that the staff will be required to use in the upcoming months. The staff is hesitant to the change, expressing that the device is too difficult to use. Which of the following strategies and principles should the manager consider to assist with the successful adoption of the proposed change? Select all that apply.

Which of the following are notable benefits and characteristics of debriefing? Select all that apply.