Leadership Basics
This involves inspiring and motivating others as a nurse.
What is being a leader as a nurse?
This leadership style involves making decisions without input.
Autocratic Leadership.
"Arranging"; "Sorting out"; "Tidying Up" (one of the 5 managerial functions)
What is Organizing?
This person proposed the three-step change theory.
Who is Kurt Lewin?
This is one area beginning nurses can develop leadership skills in.
What is Patient care coordination?
This involves organizing and directing resources as a nurse. (Logistics)
What is managing as a nurse?
This leadership style values group participation and shared decision-making.
Democratic Leadership.
This involves assigning tasks appropriately while maintaining accountability.
What is delegating?
Lewin’s three steps of change:
What are Unfreezing, Moving, Refreezing?
Treating it like a new skill; starting small and be intentional. As a nurse.
What is the mindset new nurses should have toward leadership?
Charismatic, visionary, poised, confident, critical thinking, adaptable, self accountable
What are the qualities of effective leaders?
This leadership style allows complete freedom to group members.
What is Laissez-Faire Leadership?
These tasks cannot be delegated by an RN.
What is the nursing process (ADPIE)?
The natural opposition or discomfort toward new changes.
What is “resistance to change”?
Being consistent, self-accountable, and respectful in their actions and communication.
What are the key qualities beginning nurses should practice to earn trust and influence among their peers and patients?
Self-management, self-awareness, social awareness, relationship management.
What are the four personal leadership skills?
This leadership style involves inspiring and motivating others toward shared goals.
What is the focus of transformational leadership?
1. The nursing profession determines the scope and standards of nursing practice.
2. The RN takes responsibility and accountability for the provision of nursing practice.
What are 2 of the ANA principles guiding delegation?
This type of change involves an organized, eight-step process.
What is Planned change?
This is why communication is crucial when delegating tasks.
What is ensuring mutual understanding between RNs and Assistive Personnel?
Leadership inspires people; management keeps systems running smoothly.
What is how leadership is different from management?
This leadership style focuses on exchange and reward for performance.
What is Transactional Leadership?
Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Directing, Controlling.
What are the five managerial functions?
Identifying the resistance, communicating the purpose, and involving others in the process. These are:
What are the ways to overcome resistance to change.
Showing initiative, teamwork, and commitment to patient outcomes.
What is how beginning nurses demonstrate leadership without authority?