Exam 5: Managing Time and Stress

A staff nurse has a concern about a co-worker who may be diverting medications. The staff nurse would like to report the concern to a supervisor, but she is fearful of retaliation from her colleagues. The staff nurse knows that the ethical thing to do is report the concern for the sake of patient safety. This nurse is experiencing:

Nurse managers are in a position of impacting the stress levels of employees through improving work environments and creating a culture of enhanced staff satisfaction. What type of leader is most effective at creating such an environment?

The impending demand for a sufficient number of nurses will occur when ______ reach an age when they will consume the greatest number of health care services.

Jay, a nurse on the medical-surgical unit, has been caring for a patient with chronic renal failure, congestive heart failure, and a history of myocardial infarctions. The client has been extremely irritable with the nursing staff. After working with the client for 4 days, trying various strategies to help the client work through his anger, Jay asks to have another assignment when he comes back to work in 2 days. This depicts:

Time management is an essential skill for nurse managers. This can be effectively managed through the creation of to-do lists and is an example of:

Senior leadership can assist managers in mitigating stress in the workplace. Which strategies will assist the manager in creating a more healthy work environment (select all that apply)?