Exam 16: Selecting, developing, and Evaluating Staff

Marcia,a nurse manager,discusses her concerns about the hospital's employee appraisal system with her work group,noting that all that it includes is one rating scale and that it means nothing unless the manager is effective in her job.Marcia's concerns reflect which best practices associated with performance appraisal?

The chief nursing officer establishes a shared governance model to help empower the nursing staff,thus empowering the organization.Common characteristics of empowered organizations are

Which of the following is a strategy that clinical nurse educators can use to ensure understanding and retention of information in newly hired staff nurses?

Nora,a new nurse manager,writes certain assumptions regarding the organization's objectives into her budget.Her supervisor tells her that the objectives implied in her assumptions are not entirely consistent with the organization and that she needs to clarify these objectives with her supervisor.Nora apologizes and says she had more latitude with the budget where she previously worked.This is an example of

Which of the following strategies might be effective in empowering staff?