Nurse leaders and managers are responsible for the unit’s ethical and legal decisions.
Consider the examples provided below and describe how you would handle the experiences.
• A manager is not granting pay to someone who worked overtime.
• A nurse manager tolerating verbal abuse of another nurse.
• Constantly short staffing the unit when there is high census.
• A nurse not providing all of the patients information during shift report.
• Favoring one staff over others.
• Making a hiring or firing decision based on friendship.
