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Decision-Making Strategies
Question | Answer |
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Which example demonstrates a normative approach to decision-making? | Supplies are ordered during the third week of the month to be prepared for the upcoming month. |
Place the steps of the decision-making process in order. | -Identify desired outcomes. -Evaluate the choices. -Determine the best decision. -Apply an option to the solution. -Determine whether the decision was effective. |
Which situations are affected by internal decision-making factors? | - A nurse always approaches confrontation the same way because of her personal belief system. - A member of the team is still upset about an argument she had with her spouse this morning. |
-- | - The nurse decides to do the same thing she always does to solve a certain problem, because that strategy has worked in the past. |
The nurse manager of a psychiatric unit asks a group of staff members to generate ideas for fundraising projects to support homeless patients in the unit. The staff members are asked to write down their best ideas and then pick the best project. | -- |
Which decision-making technique is being used? | Nominal group technique |
Which situation exemplifies the use of the Delphi technique? | A nurse manager gathering information on best practices for patient satisfaction from the nurses working on every shift on the four Medical-Surgical units in the hospital |
A decision must be made on how to spend a unit’s surplus budget money, and the nurse manager wants to spend the money on equipment upgrades. A nurse is overheard saying, “ | -- |
“The staff should be allowed to decide, as this affects us, but administration will never listen to us over the nurse manager.” Which group decision-making strategy should be used in this situation? | Nominal group technique |