A nurse manager is looking for ways to improve the cultural competency of unit staff. Which action would help the manager accomplish this?
a. Propose voluntary cultural competence training.
b. Hire bicultural clinical and administrative staff.
c. Hire staff from the same ethnic back-ground.
d. Avoid issues pertaining to cultural com-petence.
Identify an important aspect of the role of forensic psychiatric nurses.
a. Conduct deep analyses of perpetrators to determine what caused the crime.
b. Provide intervention to prevent crimes before they occur.
c. Identify changes in behaviors linking criminals to criminal offenses.
d. Promote functional disabilities.
Select all those items from the list below that constitute barriers to clear communication.
a. Retaliation
b. Desire for power
c. Comfort
d. Increased knowledge
e. Preoccupation
A newly appointed nurse manager observes that the unit she is supervising functions in a manner that suggests the previous manager used a laissez-faire approach to supervision.
Select the prac-tice that indicates that more direction is required in the leadership style.
a. The experienced nurses work through lunch breaks.
b. Most tasks are being performed by new graduates.
c. Nurses from the float pool are assigned to the low-acuity clients.
d. Staff members are resistant to proposed changes.
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