At a unit staff meeting, nurses are complaining about having too many tasks to do and increasing number of patients admitted. What is the most effective strategy a nurse manager might use to address this problem?

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1. Providing more support staff during busy times may reduce need for nurses to do some tasks.
2. Shorter shifts would only impact a few nurses and also would not change the need to get tasks done.
3. Offering refreshments is always nice but can be viewed as a weak strategy that does not really address the problem but may deflect complaints for short time.
4. It is unlikely the nurse manager can change schedule in radiology and there is no indication that this would solve the problem of too many tasks.

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