A home health agency has a policy requiring nurses to make routine visits at night. How might politics be used to change this policy?
1. Make visits during the day and tell the supervisor that the clients are not home at night.
2. Obtain research material to provide reasons why routine nursing visits at night are not as effective as during the day.
3. Encourage others to refuse to make routine visits at night so you will not be alone.
4. Take the supervisor to lunch and invite all the staff to join to talk the supervisor into changing the policy.
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Rationale 1: Lying to the supervisor is dishonest.
Rationale 2: Research material provides rationales behind why a policy might need to be changed. This is the assessment phase and provides hard facts.
Rationale 3: Encouraging others to violate policy is not ethical.
Rationale 4: This strategy is unfair and coercive.
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