Advocacy
This states that registered nurses must practice ethically.
What is Standard VII of the ANA Scope and Standard Practice?
This type of planning considers the past, present, and future and attempts to plan the future of their organization rather than react.
What is proactive planning?
This is when a change agent identifies, plans, and implements appropriate strategies, ensuing the driving forces exceed restraining forces.
What is the movement phase of Lewin's Change Theory?
Intentional career planning is a critical and deliberate life process.
What is career development?
This is when you make an educated budget estimate by using historical data.
What is forecasting?
This suggests that the nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights health, and safety of the patient.
What is Provision 3 of the Code of Ethics for Nurses?
Organizations can use this to help with strategic planning to identify the issues that may impact them in the future and will help develop a plan.
What is a SWOT analysis?
This is a natural and expected response to change. Leaders need to identify and implement strategize to minimize and manage this in relation to change.
What is resistance?
A structured sequence of job positions through which a person can progress in an organization.
What are career ladders?
This means producing good results for the money spent.
What is cost-effective?
The approach to the planning, delivery, and evaluation of healthcare that emphasizes partnerships between clinicians and individuals where the values, needs, and preferences of the individual are honored.
What is patient-centered care?
The number of people directly reporting to anyone manager.
What is the span of control?
This stage in change is where individuals have no intention to change their own behavior in the foreseeable future.
What is precontemplation?
Helping others to identify professional goals and career options and then designing a career plan to achieve these goals.
What is career coaching?
The number you get when you divide nursing hours worked in 24 hours by the patient census.
What are nursing care hours per patient day?
This is when the nurse manager assures the work environment is both safe and conducive to professional and personal growth for subordinates.
What is workplace advocacy?
The total of an organization's values, language, traditions, customs, and sacred cows (those few things present in and institutions that are not open for discussion or change).
What is organizational culture?
This suggests that the relationship between elements and agents within any system is nonlinear and these elements are constantly in play to change the environment or outcome.
What is complex adaptive systems change theory?
This helps demonstrate a nurse's achievement of competencies.
What is a professional specialty certification?
The largest budget expenditure.
What is the workforce or personnel budget?
These people are often looked at with distrust and are often considered disloyal and experience negative repercussions for their actions.
Who are whistleblowers?
This is an organizational design that empowers staff nurses by making them an integral part of patient care decision making and providing accountability and responsibility in nursing practices.
What is shared governance?
These are small changes in conditions that make long term behavior in a system in the chaos theory.
What is the butterfly effect?
This is when an employee is promoted beyond their level of capability.
What is the Peter Principle?
This covers people over 65 years old and people with catastrophic or chronic illness.
What is Medicare?