- Punish any nurse who suggests a new idea that fails.
- Encourage critical thinking and create a safe environment for staff to pilot new, evidence-based ideas.
- Stick rigidly to all old procedures and forbid any changes.
- Wait for the administration to mandate all innovations.
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- Urgency and Importance
- Difficulty and Time Required
- Cost and Benefit
- What you like to do vs. what you dislike
- Use the grapevine to spread official hospital policy.
- Try to eliminate the grapevine completely.
- Listen to the grapevine to understand staff concerns, but use formal channels for official communication.
- Believe everything she hears on the grapevine.
- Strictly enforce the policy and have security remove the family.
- Understand the cultural importance of family, and work to find a compromise, such as allowing one or two family members to stay on a rotational basis.
- Ignore the policy and allow the entire family to stay, causing disruption.
- Tell the family their cultural practices are wrong.
- Leaders are made, not born.
- Anyone can be a leader with the right training.
- Leaders are born with innate heroic qualities.
- Leadership depends entirely on the situation.
- Isolate the complainer from the rest of the team.
- Agree with all of their complaints to pacify them.
- Address the complainer privately, listen to their specific issues, and redirect them toward constructive solutions.
- Fire the complainer immediately.
- Spend all the money as quickly as possible.
- Advocate for adequate resources while ensuring they are used efficiently and effectively.
- Hide the budget details from her staff.
- Refuse to spend any money to get a bonus.
- The safety of her staff with the duty to care for patients.
- The hospital's profits with patient care.
- Her personal life with her professional life.
- The media's demands with patient privacy.
- Giving staff the authority, resources, and autonomy to do their work effectively.
- Controlling all aspects of the staff's work.
- Making staff feel powerless.
- Withholding important information from the team.
- "To improve patient satisfaction."
- "To reduce medication errors on the medical ward by 25% within six months."
- "To make the nurses happier."
- "To provide better care to all patients."
- Acts as a formal supervisor and evaluator.
- Provides guidance, advice, and support to a less experienced colleague (the mentee).
- Delegates all of their most difficult tasks to the mentee.
- Competes with the mentee for promotions.
- A lack of clinical knowledge.
- Hierarchies, interpersonal conflicts, and a lack of structured communication tools.
- Having too many staff members.
- The use of electronic health records.
- Focus only on the negative aspects of the nurse's performance.
- Compare the nurse to her colleagues.
- Use objective criteria and provide specific examples of both strengths and areas for improvement.
- Conduct the appraisal in the middle of a busy hallway.
- The legal system and courts.
- The fair allocation of resources and treatment among all patients.
- The patient's right to make their own decisions.
- The duty to do good.
- Adding another line to her CV.
- Contributing to the advancement of the nursing profession.
- Getting time off from work.
- Following orders from her manager.
- Only the Head Nurse makes decisions.
- Decisions are made at the staff level, closer to the point of care.
- No decisions are ever made.
- The hospital CEO makes all decisions for every unit.
- Approving all leave requests regardless of unit needs.
- Creating a positive work environment with opportunities for professional growth and recognition.
- Offering the highest salary in the city.
- Implementing a strict, punitive policy for all minor errors.
- Send the patient home and hope the son figures it out.
- Provide a clearly written schedule and use the "teach-back" method, asking the son to explain the schedule back to her.
- Tell the son he needs to pay better attention.
- Call the doctor to simplify the medication schedule without assessing the son's understanding.
- Groupthink
- Psychological safety
- An autocratic environment
- Inefficiency
