The following statements describe the keys to an effective team EXCEPT:

As a nurse manager, you notice that one of your new nurses has provided exceptional care for a patient with complex needs. What would be the MOST effective way of acknowledging the nurse's performance?

A nurse is caring for a client who is unconscious and has a living will. The client's family asks if they can make changes to lifesaving measures now that the client is unconscious. Which of the following statements should the nurse make?

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.

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.

A mediator suggests that the nurse manager and staff members establish a group agreement before resolving conflicts. It is important to have agreements about how team members will work together because:

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 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?

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

You are supervising a new graduate LPN who is ordered to perform tracheostomy care. The LPN states that she has performed this procedure only a handful of times, and completes the task slowly. Which of the following actions made by you is most appropriate?

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