As a Nurse Manager,you Have Hired Two New Staff Members

question 6

Multiple Choice

As a nurse manager,you have hired two new staff members who have recently come to the United States from other countries.Which of the following strategies might indicate your efforts to assist these staff members with acculturation to your unit?

• A) Analyze a recent situation with them in which an order with a physician was not clarified and explore their beliefs about nurse-physician relationships.
• B) Expect them to behave in ways that are expected of staff who have grown up and been educated in the United States.
• C) Stress to these new staff that your unit is a "family" and that staff members take pride in saying that they are from Unit 4.
• D) Recognize that culture develops over time and leave them alone to figure out differences between their culture and that of the unit.

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Definitions:

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