Week 3 Assignment

For this assignment:

· Identify a recurring conflict with the potential to negatively impact patient care.

· This should be from your practice setting or prelicensure experiences.

· Provide details of what happened, including who was involved, what was said, where it occurred, and what was the outcome that led you to decide the conflict was unresolved.

· Review and discuss the four stages of conflict as found in Finkelman.

· Identify and explain how the stages of conflict relate to the example in your workplace.

· Describe, in detail, the best strategy for conflict resolution

· Your rationale should be from the textbook and two scholarly articles. 

· Describe how you would collaborate with a nurse leader to reach consensus on the best strategy to deal with the conflict. 

· Provide a summary or conclusion about this experience or assignment and how you may deal with conflict more effectively in the future.