The nurse executive of a healthcare organization wishes to prepare and develop nurse managers for several new units that the organization will open next year. What should be the primary goal for this work?
1. Focus on rewarding current staff for doing a good job with their assigned tasks by selecting them for promotion.
2. Prepare these managers so that they will focus on maintaining standards of care.
3. Prepare these managers to oversee the entire healthcare organization.
4. Prepare these managers to interact with hospital administration.
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Explanation: 1. This is an illustration of the "Peter Principle," which is promoting people to management positions just because they are doing a good job in their current position. Management level employees should be selected based upon the potential ability to manage and their desire to do so.
2. Nurse managers are directly responsible for maintaining standards of care, and managing fiscal resources and development of staff.
3. This is not the responsibility of most nurse managers. In this question, it is clear that managers of nursing units are being prepared and developed.
4. Interacting with hospital administration is a rare requirement for a unit nurse manager and, if it is required, it is not as important as maintaining standards of care.
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