Nurses who must manage unplanned and regular responsibilities simultaneously may experience:
A) complexity compression.
B) resilience.
C) moral distress.
D) empowerment.

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When unexpected conditions are added to regular responsibilities, nurses may experience what experts call complexity compression, which has been linked to burnout, turnover, and other types of work-related stress (Krichbaum et al., 2007). Nurses experience this when they must manage unplanned (complexity) and regular responsibilities simultaneously (compression).

Nurses Who Must Manage Unplanned and Regular Responsibilities Simultaneously May