The Merging of Departments for Cost Containment This assignment will help you explore how the nursing leader can maintain human and ethical decision making while implementing a departmental merger. As the chief nursing officer (CNO), you have been asked to merge three departments— social work, discharge planning, and utilization review—with overlapping functions and different managers. […]
As the chief nursing officer (CNO), you have been asked to merge three departments— social work, discharge planning, and utilization review—with overlapping functions and different managers. You have been told at this point that