Nursing Management

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This paper serves to identify conflict issues that currently exist within the labor and delivery unit. These issues include a division of the nursing staff, an inability of the staff to cooperate with one another, and tension in the workplace. The paper focuses on the writer's personal response to these concerns. The response is examined in the writer's inability to fully function with increased tension ever present in the workplace, and insistence on altering schedule in order to avoid the tensions. Organizational impact is identified through the resignations and transfers of nurses within the unit. The impact is also evident in a weakness of the organizational culture that no longer is receptive to outside information and practices. The writer notes that this is a significant change from the open organizational culture that once existed in the unit. Finally, recommendations are derived from the discussion of leadership, organizational change and management practices.

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"The labor and delivery unit where the writer is employed is comprised of experienced nurses with five or more years of service in the medical profession, and new nurses that are just beginning their nursing careers. When the new nurses first began to arrive into the unit the majority of them possessed advanced degrees in nursing, while the experienced nurses had not been required to have extensive education credentials."

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