What can the nurse do to overcome extrinsic barriers to caring?
1. Employ active listening skills with individuals and families.
2. Ask the family to identify their most important goal for well-being.
3. Sign up for the hospital committee on obtaining Magnet status.
4. Maintain a journal on personal insights about family interactions.
ANS: 3
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1 Active listening skills can be used to overcome intrinsic barriers to caring.
2 Setting family goals is one way a nurse cares for patients and families.
3 Working on a hospital committee to create change in the workplace could help overcome extrinsic barriers to caring.
4 Maintaining a journal would be one way a nurse might work to overcome intrinsic barriers to caring.
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