What is it
and what causes it?
Key Points
Recognition
Resolution Strategies
100

How many definitions are there for conflict? 

Several or many.

100

____ team members are responsible for promoting resolution and implementing shared problem solving 

What is all?

100

Who will encourage negotiations and a level of compromise?

A good leader

100

Who has biases? 

Everyone

200

Who is legally accountable for providing safe competent care and is ethically bound to
the non-maleficence principle to ‘do no harm’,  to prevent or resolve conflict, and promote
the health and well-being of patients?

The nurse

200

Conflict is _____ within healthcare teams.

What is inevitable? 

200

What must be first identified to manage conflict?

The source, including type and how it has arisen.

200

When feeling ignored or steamrolled, what is something that might happen as a result?

A threat might be made. 

300

Poor delivery of patient care threatens what?

The integrity of the nurse, the profession, and the health service

300

Nurse managers need what to foster beneficial conflict resolution?

What are reputable leadership qualities? 

300

What does transformational leadership do according to Doody and doody? 

Shows good leadership qualities, and will inspire and motivate other team members, thus enhancing morale and team function.

300

What does it mean to look beneath the surface?

Take time to explore each other’s deeper concerns. Listen closely to one another’s grievances and try to come up with creative ways to address them.

400

Top 3 Common causes of workplace conflict.

Warring egos, workplace stress, heavy workload

400

Poorly managed conflict impacts what? 

What are staff and patient care? 

400

Managing conflict positively and acknowledging it is a responsibility of who? 

Nurse managers

400

Which strategy requires group members to work to understand the other's views and see the other's positions?

Overcome and "us vs them" mentality 

500

Name 4 types of causes of conflict.

  • Poor management 

  • Unclear job roles

  • Poor communication

  • Competition between professionals

  • Capacity to function as a team 

  • Previous experiences

  • Personality clashes 

  • nursing burnout
500

Are change and conflict bad in health care?

No, they should be used as a driving force for positive change and are to be expected.

500

How does organizational conflict affect the nursing team?

it negatively impact the team functioning, weakening stability, and disrupting the status quo
500

Name 3 out of the 5 types of conflict resolution we discussed. 

1. Recognize that all of us have biased fairness perceptions 

2. avoid escalating tensions with threats and provocative moves 

3. Overcome and "us vs them" mentality

4. Look beneath the surface to identify deeper issues 

5. Separate sacred from pseudo-sacred issues