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1. As a nurse manager, you observe a staff nurse who over the past few weeks ha
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s become withdrawn and has had several absences due to minor ailments. Your
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best action would be to:
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a. ask the nurse if she is okay during report.
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b. refer the nurse to the employee assistance program.
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c. mmmm ask the nurse to meet with you for a few minutes before she leaves for the
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d. write a note to the nurse advising her that her work attendance must improve.
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Stress can lead to emotional symptoms such as depression and a variety of ail
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ments. Meeting with the nurse privately may assist in identifying stress and pos
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TOP: AONE competency: Business Skills
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2. The nurse manager of a unit has lost many staff members, and the unit is now
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staffed with a large number of agency and traveling nurses. She knows that the
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agency and traveling nurses are all contracted to stay on the unit for the next 3
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months. One way to improve morale and decrease stress in the unit would be
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to:
a. plan a social event and include the agency and traveling nurse staff members.
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b. plan unit-based social events for your remaining permanent staff members.
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c. request hospital-based “floating” nurses to substitute for the temporary staff.
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NURS 4803 Chapter 07: Managing Self: Stress and Time Yoder-
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,NURS 4803 Chapter 07: Managing Self: Stress and Time Yoder-
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d. implement team nursing.N R I G B.C M m m

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Social support, in the form of positive work relationships, can be an important
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way to buffer the effects of a stressful work environment. Including all staff in t
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he social event enables those who are not normally part of the team to experienc
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e this support and provides an opportunity for the staff as a whole to develop su
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TOP: AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building
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3. As a nurse manager, the one activity you should not overlook is:
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a. posting the yearly rotation schedule.
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b. reviewing vacation requests. m m



c. scheduling staffing for holidays 6 months in advance.
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d. anticipating staff sick days. m m m




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Free time and vacation time are needed for individuals to recharge. If time fo
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r work is more than 60% of wake time, or when self-
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time is less than 10% of wake time, stress levels increase.
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TOP: AONE competency: Business Skills
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4. A nurse manager has decided that she must institute some personal time-
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management steps to survive work and home life. Her first step should be to:
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NURS 4803 Chapter 07: Managing Self: Stress and Time Yoder-
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a. determine what takes up so much of her time and energy.
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b. organize her personal and work spaces. m m m m m



c. purchase a handheld personal digital assistant to help remind her
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of important meetings.
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Personal time management refers, in part, to “the knowing of self.” Self-
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awareness is a critical leadership skill, and being self-
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aware and setting goals helps managers determine how their time is best spent.
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TOP: AONE competency: Leadership
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5. A hospice nurse has been feeling very stressed at work because of both the phy
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sical strain andthe emotional drain of working with clients with AIDS. She trie
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s to walk 1 to 2 miles three times a week and to talk regularly with her husband
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about her work-related feelings. One reasonable stress-
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a. start taking yoga lessons. m m m



b. make an appointment to meet with a psychiatrist.
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c. start jogging 5 to 6 miles every day.
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d. plan to go out for a drink with fellow nurses after work every day.
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Stress relief techniques include 30 minutes of exercise five times a we
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ek, as well as techniques such as yoga that relieve mental stress.
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TOP: AONE competency: Leadership
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6. The nurse manager is implementing a shared governance model to help with com
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munication
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difficult. Staff nurses feel: m m m



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Change can lead to feelings of being overwhelmed and powerless, especially
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if complexity compression or rapid, intense changes have been involved.
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TOP: AONE competency: Business Skills
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7. The chief nursing officer listens to nurse managers verbalize their feelings of
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internal stress. One common source of internal stress seems to be:
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a. the death of a loved one.
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b. perfectionism.
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d. losing a job. m m




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Losing a job, the death of a loved one, and getting married are examples of exter
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TOP: AONE competency: Business Skills
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NURS 4803 Chapter 07: Managing Self: Stress and Time Yoder-
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