What are the impacts, and how might policy address these competing needs? Be specific and provide examples.How do effective leaders find a balance between the needs of the organization and the needs of ensuring quality, effective, and safe patient care?
Quite often, nurse leaders are faced with ethical dilemmas, such as those associated with choices between competing needs and limited resources. Resources are finite, and competition for those resources occurs daily in all organizations. For example, the use of 12-hour shifts has been a strategy to retain nurses. However, evidence suggests that as nurses work […]