Module Post Test 16—Building and Keeping New Social Networks

Objectives:

1.      To recognize enabling people and environments at work
2.      To establish healthy boundaries between work and personal life
3.      To identify ways to protect oneself from an unhealthy prevailing climate

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* 1. Contact Information

First Name *

Last Name

License Type and #(No Spaces) *

State/Province *

Email Address *

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* 2. Every workplace has a prevailing climate that is defined by behavior, relationships, attitudes, policies and:

friendships

expectations

conflicts

problems

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* 3. The adjectives supportive, hostile, friendly and exciting are descriptors of workplace:

employers

coworkers

climates

supervisors

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* 4. Boundaries between needs met at work and needs met outside of work are always:

well established

difficult to define

well balanced

a little fluid

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* 5. Defining differences one wants between professional collegial relationships and personal/social relationships helps to:

develop healthy friendships at work

identify those needs that are met mostly at work and those that are met mostly at home or community

establish a strong support system outside of work

establish a support group at work

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* 6. Work settings that are fast-paced, stressful, demanding or exhausting often have a corresponding culture that develops and promotes:

fast living, substance abusing after work social activities

fast-living and recovery oriented after work social activities

healthy and balanced after work social activities

balanced lifestyles for recovering nurses

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* 7. Fast living after work social activities often become ritualistic activities, that extend the work climate and:

promote ongoing friendships at work

support healthy boundaries at work

take time away from strengthening other relationships and interests

promote workplace cohesion

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* 8. Participating in a social culture of after work activities that enables and glorifies substance use:

is necessary to gain acceptance by colleagues

is too high a price to pay

works well in later stages of recovery

solidifies collegial relationships

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* 9. Anticipating how to make significant changes in relationships without losing true friends is important when returning to a job held prior to treatment. Making these relationship changes is important:

to protect yourself in recovery

to protect your role at the workplace

to allow you to make new friends

to gain acceptance from your colleagues

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* 10. When beginning a new job:

it is important to avoid social activities with colleagues

it is important to join colleagues for all afterwork social activities

it is important to anticipate all enabling situations at the workplace

it is important to anticipate and protect yourself from enabling social pressures

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* 11. An example of planning how to establish healthy expectations and boundaries in a new job, includes role-playing a situation in which you are invited to join a group of coworkers who are going to a bar after work “to unwind”. This is best done with:

a supervisor at the workplace

at 12 step meetings

a trusted friend or in a support group

coworkers at the workplace