NOn Compliant Nurse Manager

Like what, for instance?

I have had concerns about that too, when people are lax.

If you have documented info re lax contact precautions, send it up the food chain. When the facility gets FINED for failing to enforce it's own standards, you want the appropriate person accountable for their LACK of action, not you.

From an ad re compliance education:

Something I had to look up the other day -

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon which refers to the discomfort felt at a discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation. It therefore occurs when there is a need to accommodate new ideas, and it may be necessary for it to develop so that we become "open" to them. Neighbour (1992) makes the generation of appropriate dissonance into a major feature of tutorial (and other) teaching: he shows how to drive this kind of intellectual wedge between learners' current beliefs and "reality".


Beyond this benign if uncomfortable aspect, however, dissonance can go "over the top", leading to two interesting side-effects for learning:

if someone is called upon to learn something which contradicts what they already think they know — particularly if they are committed to that prior knowledge — they are likely to resist the new learning. Even Carl Rogers recognised this. Accommodation is more difficult than Assimilation, in Piaget's terms.
and—counter-intuitively, perhaps—if learning something has been difficult, uncomfortable, or even humiliating enough, people are less likely to concede that the content of what has been learned is useless, pointless or valueless. To do so would be to admit that one has been "had", or "conned".

from: http://www.learningandteaching.info/...dissonance.htm


This nurse is obviously old-school ... I wonder what her infection rate is compared to other units, is this something (the stats for her unit) you could look up and provide for her as incentive?