Which statement by the nurse indicates understanding of collective bargaining in the workplace?
a. "Collective bargaining is not useful in the workplace.".
b. "Collective bargaining is used by nurses to control their practice.".
c. "Collective bargaining is used by manag-ers to control nurses.".
d. "Collective bargaining is always an ad-versarial process in the workplace.".
B
Collective bargaining is used by nurses to control their practice by redistributing power within the health care organization. It is not used by managers to control nurses. It is used in the workplace. Traditional collective bargaining has been considered an adversarial process. Nontraditional collective bargaining or interest-based bargaining (IBB) attempts to problem-solve issues between staff and management in a shared governance approach.
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