LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
This leadership skill helps nurses coordinate care, build trust, and resolve conflicts among team members.
What is effective communication?
Two nurses share responsibility for a client incident when one asks the other to watch clients during a break, and the client falls. Both are subject to this.
What is review of both nurses' actions?
A child with suspicious perineal burns requires the nurse to take this mandatory action.
What is report suspected abuse?
A client with asthma becomes more short of breath immediately after using this medication, requiring priority assessment.
What is a bronchodilator?
Community data on health facilities and welfare recipients is best obtained from this agency.
What is the county health department?
A leader who avoids giving direction and lets the staff manage themselves is demonstrating this leadership style.
What is laissez-faire leadership?
When an assistive personnel refuses a task that is within their scope, the nurse should do this first.
What is discuss the concerns about the assignment?
Ethical decision-making is best described as using these personal factors to guide choices.
What are personal values and beliefs?
A child with acute epiglottitis, drooling, and no spontaneous cough is highest priority due to risk to this.
What is airway patency?
To improve vaccine uptake, the nurse offers free clinics at schools and churches. This improves this factor.
What is access/convenience?
A leader who invites staff to participate in decision-making and goal-setting uses this style.
What is democratic leadership?
A floated RN with limited experience should be assigned the most stable client, such as one needing this type of simple intervention.
What is teaching incentive spirometry?
A duplicate medication error is discovered. After notifying the provider and charge nurse, the next required action is this.
What is completing an incident/variance report?
A client with a new cast reporting numbness in the fingers requires rapid evaluation for damage to this
What is neurovascular function?
To assess a community’s health status, this type of report provides the most standardized population-level data.
What is a community health assessment report?
This leadership approach involves giving orders without input from the team.
What is autocratic leadership?
A client who has fallen twice and gets dizzy upon standing is at high fall risk due to this combination.
What are a history of falls and postural hypotension?
A competent client refusing care and stating, “I understand I may die without treatment,” demonstrates this ethical right.
What is informed refusal?
A burn client with extensive burns to the face and chest should be assessed first for this life-threatening complication.
What is airway obstruction?
Before recommending practice changes from a research study, the nurse’s first step should be to do this.
What is critically appraise validity and reliability?
Nurses are reminded that behavior outside the hospital can still affect licensure because nurses may be disciplined for this.
What are unprofessional actions?
On a team with one RN, the RN should care for the client who is dying and requires this type of medication administration.
What is IV pain medication?
A nurse may face licensure discipline for inserting a central line without authorization, falsifying data, or having this kind of criminal history.
What is a felony drug conviction?
A critical lab result showing this blood sugar value requires immediate action.
What is < 60 mg/dL?
A systematic review suggests a new intervention may reduce hospital-acquired infections. The nurse’s best action is to do this with the team.
What is collaboratively evaluate and consider implementing the intervention?