Choose the example portraying a situation in which a group is not a team
1. A group of people are working toward streamlining the admission process.
2. Seven nurses are working to get their hospital to magnet status, led by their manager.
3. A group of nurse managers are working on their unit budgets for the following fiscal year.
4. Three nurses and two unlicensed assistants are given the task of revising position descriptions.
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Explanation: 1. A group cannot be a team if the members are competing for resources such as when
completing a budget request. The other group descriptions are considered teams because they
are working together to complete a task or responsibility.
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