Tips for Managing and Mitigating Conflict in Health-care Teams - RNAO

Tips on how to manage and mitigate conflict (e.g. how to be “self-aware” during conflict, five responses to conflict, steps to resolve conflict, questions to ask when conflict arises, barriers to resolution, etc.).

Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario. (2012, September). Managing and Mitigating Conflict in Health-care Teams Best Practice Guideline. Toronto, ON, Canada: Author. pp. 86-88. 

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