A Nurse Manager Is Encountering Poor Staff Morale on Her

Multiple Choice

A nurse manager is encountering poor staff morale on her unit.While participating in a baccalaureate course the nurse manager learned that one of the reasons nurses lack power today is probably because of the past.In the early decades of the profession,nurses lacked power because:

A) Nurses freely chose to defer to physicians and administrators with more education.
B) Women were not socialized to exert power.
C) The first nursing licensure laws prohibited nurses from making most decisions.
D) Nurses astutely recognized the risks of grabbing too much power too soon.