A Newly Hired Nurse Manager Is Being Mentored in This

question 13

Multiple Choice

A newly hired nurse manager is being mentored in this new role. How should the mentor advise this manager regarding staffing for the next shift?

• A) "First you must determine the nursing care hours needed."
• B) "First you must become familiar with the classification system we use."
• C) "First consider how to modify the schedule to meet client needs."
• D) "First consider the need to supplement the current nursing staff so that arrangements can be made."

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Definitions:

Incorporation

In psychology, the process of integrating ideas, values, or traits of others into one’s own identity or belief system.

Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies unconsciously used to protect oneself from anxiety or uncomfortable truths.

Compensation

A psychological strategy where individuals overdevelop in one area to make up for deficits in another, often unconsciously.

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic approach developed by Freud emphasizing unconscious processes and the resolution of internal conflicts through techniques such as dream analysis and free association.