Assignment task: You represent the nursing department on a newly formed interdisciplinary team to look at medication errors and medication safety. You are one of seven team members. The Pharmacy Director, also a team member, has a very assertive communication style. The Pharmacy Director dominates meeting conversations and does not appear open to adopting new processes requiring the pharmacy department to take on additional work and responsibility. Instead, the Pharmacy Director redirects the ideas back to you and states, "This is a nursing responsibility." Related question
1. As a Nurse Leader, examine and discuss communication strategies you would employ to: a) Redirect the dominance of communication by one team member. b) Avoid accepting full ownership and responsibility for all ideas directed to the nursing department.
2. Determine how the Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation (SBAR) technique could be used to facilitate interprofessional team communication in this situation.
3. What is groupthink? How can a nurse manager prevent reduce it on the unit?
4. Differentiate between centralized and decentralized stffing and cite advantages and disadvantages
5. Identify staffing and scheduling options used in healthcare
6. What is patient classification system? What type of classification system determine staffing needs adequately
7. Explain innovative staffing modules like: Float pool; Agency staffing; Flexible staffing etc What have you learned in these 2 chapters that you will apply in practice?