The nurse is in a position to provide input into the creation of a healing organization. This nurse should advocate for which position?
1. Clear, honest, and open apologies from administration regarding prior barriers to staff job satisfaction.
2. Patient care environments that allow staff to complete their tasks efficiently.
3. Systems of admission and care that provide easy access to services, attention, and staff.
4. Patient care and staff work areas that are free from microbes, including those that might be brought in by visitors.
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Explanation: 1. The healing organization avoids projections of guilt and blame.
2. Task efficiency remains important, but is not ranked as highly.
3. The healing organization emphasizes personal, family-oriented contact and responses to patient needs and requests.
4. Infection control is important, but not ranked as highly as family-oriented contact and response to patient needs.
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