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In the forming stage the day shift staff meet in the staffroom at 7am

In the forming stage the day shift staff meet in the staffroom at 7am and the nurse in charge of the night shift Nurse 1 comes in to handover the patients The deputy nurse in charge of the day shift arranges which nurses will oversee each of the bays In the beginning there are no interactions as the nurse in charge starts to discuss the patients and the events that occurred overnight Members of staff start to make assumptions on the nurse in charge Forsyth 2014 states that at this stage the members of the group are uncertain of their role and what they should be doing to help the group reach its goal The nurses do not yet know what tasks need to be performed that day and so the handover is useful to inform them of anything that has recently been done to the patient and what needs to be done This is where there is an exchange of information to help the staff perform their activities Mild tension may start to rise in the storming stage as the nurse states that some things have not been done referrals for the social worker and TTOs To Take Out medication for patients have not been requested etc 



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