A nurse manager is experiencing conflicts between herself and staff members. She had tried to develop a team by using a shared leadership model to empower the staff. Staff members are functioning:
a. As a team.
b. Independently.
c. Interdependently.
d. As a group.
D
A group is a collection of interconnected individuals working together, with a high degree of in-terdependence, for the same purpose. A team is a unified group that is committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach, for which they hold themselves mutually accountable. The conflict indicates that the staff may not be united in a common purpose.
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