Match the following terms and definitions. There are distractor answers, so you will have extra answers left over.

Relationship Centered Care: The nurse-manager recognizes that performance appraisals can be intense and wants to make sure that the process will have a positive outcome for employees. What action best promotes this goal?

Knowledge and Science: The nurse-manager is working in a unionized health-care organization. When administering discipline to employees, the manager should:

Teamwork: Following much debate, a health-care organization has adopted a system of peer review for the first time. How can the success of this system be best promoted?

Context and Environment: The performance appraisal system in a health-care organization has been replaced by performance management. Under this new system, the nurse-manager should perform what actions? Select all that apply.

Context and Environment: The nurse-manager has received a memo from the director of human resources stating that the organization will be adopting a performance management system. The manager should recognize what implication of this announcement?

Relationship Centered Care: How can the nurse-manager best promote the development of self-discipline in employees?

Relationship Centered Care: The nurse-manager is preparing to terminate an employee for continuous rule breaking. What is the manager’s best action?

Context and Environment: A nurse-manager has referred staff members to a clinical practice guideline (CPG) that addresses the prevention of pressure ulcers. What is a characteristic of this CPG?

Knowledge and Science: A nurse-manager is focusing on management controlling functions that are associated with quality control. What task best addresses this goal?