Leadership Theories
Organization & Structure
Planning Continuum & The Importance of Transparency
Healthcare & Institutional Environments
External & Physical Environments
100

This theory focuses on the characteristics of a leader

What is Trait Theory?

100

The ability to monitor feelings and emotions and self and others, and to discern among this information to guide one's thinking and actions.

What is emotional intelligence?

100

This involves determining long-term objectives of the organization and setting priorities.

What is strategic planning?

100

a variety of settings, such as urgent care centers, long-term care, public health, and rehabilitation centers, in which nursing practice extends beyond the hospital setting.

What are alternative care settings?

100

the entry into or the use of healthcare services.

What is access to care?

200

The Fielder's model, Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership model, and Vroom and Yetton's expectancy model are all examples of this leadership theory.

What is the Contingency Theory

200

This type of management focuses on efficiencies created through establishment of standards, time-motion studies, task analysis, job simplification, and productivity incentives. 

What is scientific management?

200

A condition that is a deliberate move away from secrecy and opaqueness.

What is organizational transparency?

200

These types of relationships allow for entities to come together in such a way that both organizational autonomy and coalition of power are maintained.

What are network relationships?

200

A subspecialty within the healthcare industry that focuses on creating physical environments that promote health and wellbeing for patients and staff.

What is healthcare design?

300

These two types of leaders believe that behavior change is internally inspired.

What are democratic and laissez-faire?

300

This man is known as the father of modern quality control, and brought together disciplines of statistics, engineering, and economics to develop the control chart.

Who is Walter Shewart?
300

This type of planning involves the day-to-day operations, including business in the moment and the proactive determination of what is to be done during unexpected occurrences.

What is Contingency Planning?

300

While this type of culture is not preferred because of its use of coercion, threats of punishment, and clear direction of actions to gain compliance, it may be the best approach in some crisis situations.

What is an autocratic culture?

300

The study of the prevalence of a disease or health condition and the factors that determine its prevalence. 

What is epidemiology?

400

This form of leadership is derived from the principles of social-exchange theory, which implies that there are reciprocal social, political, and psychological benefits for the manager and the employee that should be equal to maintain balance

What is Transactional Leadership

400

A challenging type of communication that occurs across the organization between departments.

What is lateral/diagonal communication?

400

The organization's reputation, improved communication among stakeholder, and involvement of current and future members are all representative of this.

What are the Values of Transparency?

400

A system of shares actions, values, and beliefs that develop within an organization and guides the behavior of its members.

What is corporate culture

400

This agency is a federal agency concerned with codes that pertain to reducing risk for harm in healthcare environments.

What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?

500

This form of leadership, like shared governance, if a key principle in ANCC's Magnet Recognition Program, as it encourages an atmosphere of supportive trust and self-actualization.

What is Transformational Leadership

500

The four key concepts (nurse, person, environment, and health) that are incorporated into all nursing theories.

What is the metaparadigm for nursing theory?
500

This requires clarity and consensus about what constitutes success, open access to information, and confidence in the competence of all involved.

What is cultural trust?

500

A system in which the focus is on keeping patients healthy as a way to use resources most efficiently and decrease the need for hospitalization.

What is an integrated healthcare system?

500

Healthcare industry issues such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, litigation, increased demand, excessive administrative expense, waste, and fraud.

What are the driving forces for healthcare costs?

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