You are a nurse manager of an ICU in a local hospital and have lost two nurses on your staff. One nurse quit and the other nurse is receiving treatment in a center for alcohol abuse
What type of group would you recommend to your staff before considering a transfer or quitting? 1. Nurse-to-nurse support group
2. Nurse storytelling group
3. Nurse bibliotherapy group
4. Nurse Alcoholics Anonymous group
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Rationale: Nurses who work together may form discussion and counseling groups to help reduce their job-related stress and to help them deal with problems of interpersonal relationships in more satisfying ways. Nurses in various intensive care and other high-pressure settings identify with increasing frequency the need for group work services that the psychiatric–mental health nurse can provide.
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A) Uterine rupture B) Abruptio placentae C) Placenta previa D) Spontaneous abortion