The most important responsibility of a nurse manager is to: 1. Foster

The most important responsibility of a nurse manager is to:

1. Foster an environment that enables staff to provide quality nursing care
2. Provide leadership and role modeling for nursing and ancillary staff
3. Evaluate the delivery of nursing care in regard to its effect on client outcomes
4. Create a unit attitude of cooperative engagement directed toward positive client outcomes

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Perhaps the most important responsibility of the nurse executive is to establish a vision for nurs-ing that enables managers and staff to provide quality nursing care. The remaining options are means by which the manager can affect the proper environment.