Profession
Sometimes referred to as reflective thinking.
What is critical thinking?
Describes the nursing profession's contract with society.
What is the Code of Ethics?
Protect the public health, safety, and welfare by regulating the licensure of nurses, the practice of nurses, and the education.
What is the mission of the Maine Board of Nursing?
Nursing, person, health, environment
What is the metaparadigm of nursing?
Inspires change, vision, imagination, and risk taking.
What is leadership?
Gender, values, life experience, individual preferences, and brain hemisphere dominance or thinking style.
What contributes to individual variations in decision making?
Truth telling
What is veracity?
Right task
Right circumstances
Right person
Right directions and communication
Right supervision and evaluation
Principles of delegation (NCSBC and ANA)
Assists in making a prediction.
What is a theory?
Lack of clear vision and direction
What is a fatal leadership flaw?
Gather data carefully.
Take the time necessary.
Generate many alternatives.
Think logically.
What are critical elements in problem solving and decision making?
Nurses are accountable and responsible for the assignment or delegation of nursing activities.
What is Provision 4.4 in the Nursing Code of Ethics?
Nurses should achieve higher levels of education and training through an improved education system that promotes seamless academic progression.
What is one finding of the Future of Nursing report?
Produces variables that can be tested.
What is situation specific theory?
One is assigned a position by an organization while the other obtains power through influence.
What is a difference between a leader and manager?
Emphasizes that safety and quality problems exist largely because of system problems.
What is Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century.
Nurses, in all roles, must create a culture of excellence and maintain practice environments that support nurses and others in the fulfillment of their ethical obligations.
What is Provision 6.2 in the Nursing Code of Ethics.
Responsible for implementing and enforcing the Nurse Practice Act.
What is the Board of Nursing.
Addresses the challenges of preparing future nurses with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to continuously improve the quality and safety of the healthcare systems within which they work.
Permissive, provides little or no direction, does not criticize, places emphasis on the group.
What is a laissez-faire leader?
Provide patient-centered care
Work in interdisciplinary teams
Apply quality improvement
Utilize informatics
Employ evidence-based practice
What are the Institute of Medicine core health care competencies?
What is Provision 6.3 in the Code of Ethics?
Responsible for the creating the Nurse Practice Act.
What is the legislature?
In addition to the IOM competencies, communication, geriatrics, safety, professionalism, leadership, system-based practice.
What are the Maine nurse core competencies?
A manager who is committed, has a vision, and is able to empower others with this vision.
What is a transformational leader?