Your unit has just introduced a new system for electronic health records (EHR). Each of the staff members must be taught how to use the system. A strategy for change that focuses on teaching workers new technology is which of the following?
a. Providing information c. Power coercive
b. Training d. Normative reeducative
B
Training focuses on teaching workers new technology. Providing information focuses on what the
change will mean to the individual. The power-coercive strategy uses authority and threat of job loss to
gain compliance with change. The normative-reeducative strategy uses social orientation and the need
to have satisfactory relationships in the workplace.
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1. Dehydration. 2. Complaints of increasing headaches. 3. Decreased reproductive hormone levels. 4. Lack of protein excretion in client's urine.
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A) All family members should wear skid-proof footwear. B) If someone becomes hypothermic, keep the clothing on, cover the person with damp blankets, and have the person drink a cool liquid. C) All family members should light rain jackets. D) If someone becomes hypothermic, remove any wet clothing, wrap the person in blankets, and have the person drink a warm liquid.
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1. "I can only have one more baby." 2. "The next time I have a baby, I can try to deliver vaginally." 3. "Every time I have a baby, I will have to have a cesarean delivery." 4. "The risk of rupturing my uterus is too high for me to have any more babies."