A home health agency has a policy requiring nurses to make routine visits at night. How might politics be used to change this policy?
1. Make visits during the day and tell the supervisor clients are not home when visited at night.
2. Obtain research material to provide reasons why routine nursing visits at night are not as effective as
during daytime.
3. Encourage others to refuse to make routine visits at night so you will not be alone.
4. Take the supervisor to lunch and invite all the staff to join to talk the supervisor into changing the policy.
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Explanation: 1. Research material provides rationales behind why a policy might need to be changed. This is
the assessment phase and provides hard facts. Lying to the supervisor is dishonest, avoiding
making visits at night is client abandonment, and taking the supervisor to lunch in order to
talk her into changing policy is unfair and coercive.
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