Your Friend Paula Is an Experienced Nurse Who Recently Relocated

question 65

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.
Paula has one more example to share with you. She has not been able to observe basic assumptions and values but feels that she understands them. Which of the following is an example of basic assumptions and values?

• A) How people behave is a basic assumption and value.
• B) Vision, mission, and values statements published on webpages, on posters, or in team charters are examples of basic assumptions and values.
• C) Basic assumptions and values are the unconscious workings that underlie the core behaviors of a group.
• D) All of the answers.

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Definitions:

Acquired

Something that has been obtained or gained, which was not innate or present from birth.

Reparative Therapy

a controversial psychological treatment aimed at changing a person's sexual orientation from homosexual or bisexual to heterosexual, widely discredited by major medical organizations.

Mental Health Organizations

Institutions that provide resources, support, advocacy, and research for individuals dealing with mental health challenges and their families.

Homosexuality

The quality or characteristic of being sexually attracted solely to people of one's own gender.