A preceptor is orienting a new graduate nurse to the intensive care unit. She and other nurses exhibit caring respectful behaviors toward all families and clients and toward each other. Peers do not tolerate negative attitudes
The intensive care unit nurses also question physician orders when necessary and provide ongoing teaching to clients and families. This scenario depicts the importance of the group's ____. a. Attitudes
b. Behaviors
c. Culture
d. Feelings
C
Culture is reflected in "the way things are done" in an organization (Stetler, 2003). Schein (1992) has defined the culture of a group as "a pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid and, therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems."
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