A nurse manager is dealing with a series of issues related to procrastination, inability to delegate, inability to say no, management by crisis, haste, indecisiveness, interrupting telephone calls, socialization, and complaining
These issues can all be categorized as examples of which one of the following? a. Mistakes c. Time wasters
b. Errors d. New nurses
C
Marquis and Huston (2005) identified five criteria that contributed to wasting time and hindered the
outcomes being achieved: procrastination, inability to delegate, inability to say no, management by
crisis and/or haste, and indecisiveness. Sullivan and Decker (2009) added interrupting telephone calls
and socialization, and Reed and Pettigrew (2006) added complaining to this rather lengthy list.
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