If nurse administrators fail to attend to the communication needs of their employees, then a larger vacuum of information is created.

Dealing with the Grapevine
If nurse administrators fail to attend to the communication needs of their employees, then a larger vacuum of information is created. Instead of effective communication at the work place and informal avenue of rumor develops and frequent puts a destructive slant on the activities of the workplace when employees are tentative. Most people in the nursing profession have revealed that about 80 percent of information that gets to employees travel through grapevine. Information that is as a result of grapevine travels very fast than formal communication channels. However, numerous ways have been developed to manage grapevine particularly in the nursing profession.

A key thing to remember when dealing with grapevine in the nursing profession is that grapevine exists. Reading the American Nurses Association (2010), nurse administrators are well reminded that grapevine exists, it has always existed and will always exist and there is no way it can be stopped. For this reason, nurse administrators should first accept this fact and make a decision on how to use grapevine for the benefit of the organization and the nursing profession at large. Managing grapevine for positivity should involve revealing to the management those issues that are problematic to nurses from the grassroots. This enabled managers to deal with issues immediately without waiting for the information to turn into rumor (Roussel 2013). An appropriate nurse administrator can ensure that preventive measures are taken to prevent rumors. Such preventive measures include keeping nurses honestly, fully and daily informed of the changes and plans within the organization through formal communication channels such as face to face meetings and emails at every level of operation. Plans can also be developed to actively reduce and prevent rumors from occurring. Such a plan fully revolves around maintain fair communication flow using numerous alternative sources to convey a particular message.