Nursing labor management partnerships:
a. Engage nurses at all levels in problem solving for better patient care.
b. Require unions and management to negotiate in good faith regarding hours of work and wages.
c. Have been shown to have negligible effects on nurse turnover and patient outcomes.
d. Have typically resulted in increased polarization of nurses and management, leading to formation of collective bargaining units.
ANS: A
The development of a nursing labor management partnership is an approach that can be used in most professional nursing environments. This process recognizes nurses as leaders on all levels and provides formal and informal mechanisms for professional nurses to work together to achieve shared goals through collaboration and shared decision making or decentralized decision making. A study of a nursing labor management partnership suggested that nurse satisfaction was higher, turnover was lower, and more time was available for patient care.
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