The nurse manager plays a unique role in institutional management in that the nurse manager:
a. Encourages shared decision making.
b. Models professional nursing behavior.
c. Interprets healthcare trends and their im-pact on revenues.
d. Coordinates care and allocates resources.
B
Encouragement of shared decision making, coordination of resources, and interface between in-ternal and external factors and a unit are all associated with effective management but could be performed by a manager from any discipline. The nurse manager's unique role is modeling pro-fessional behavior.
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