A Nurse Manager Is Experiencing Poor Staff Morale on Her

question 11

Multiple Choice

A nurse manager is experiencing poor staff morale on her unit.While participating in a baccalaureate course,the nurse manager had learned that one of the reasons nurses lack power today is related to the past.In the early decades of the profession,nurses lacked power because:

• A) nurses freely chose to defer to physicians and administrators with more education.
• B) women lacked legal, social, and political power because of legal and cultural barriers.
• C) the first nursing licensure laws prohibited nurses from making most decisions.
• D) nurses astutely recognized the risks of grabbing too much power too soon.

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