Your Friend Paula Is an Experienced Nurse Who Recently Relocated

question 38

Multiple Choice

Your friend Paula is an experienced nurse who recently relocated and accepted a position on the inpatient rehabilitation unit at the University X Healthcare System. Her previous position was on a general medical unit in a small community hospital. She had thrived in this position for over 10 years. In her new position she will be working day to day with the interdisciplinary rehabilitation team. Paula is concerned about the changes she will face. Most specifically, she worries that she will not 'fit in' with this new culture. She seeks you out for advice.
You inform Paula that culture can be defined using three levels - artifacts, exposed values, and basic assumptions and values. Paula shares with you an example of exposed values at University X Healthcare System. She has:

• A) Observed how people behave which is an exposed value.
• B) Researched the vision, mission, and values statements published on webpages, on posters, and in team charters which give insight into the values.
• C) Reflected on unconscious workings that underlie the core behaviors of a groupreflect exposed values.
• D) All of the answers.

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Definitions:

Terminally Ill Patient

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Personal Resources

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Disenfranchised Grief

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Mildly Depressed

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