One of the nurses on your unit serves as a member of the hospital's budget committee. Each month the nurse updates the unit staff on issues that may affect them. This nurse possesses which type of power?
a. Expert power c. Information power
b. Connection power d. Legitimate power
C
Power is based on the information that any person can provide to the group. The extent to which
nurses are connected with others having power is called connection power. The knowledge and skills
nurses possess is referred to as expert power. Legitimate power is power derived from the position a
nurse holds in a group, and it indicates the degree of authority.
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