The Art, Science, & Evidence-Based
Communicating & Functioning Effectively
Understanding Healthcare and Organizations
Supervisors, Supervision, & Collaboration
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100

These two types of leadership are not contradictory styles but instead are complementary and can be used together. 

Transactional & Transformational Leadership

100

These are seven factors to consider when involved in business writing and effective communication.

Seven C's

100

This term refers to efforts to improve population health, improve health care, and reduce costs.

Triple Aim

100

Determining that the OTA or another OT staff member performs tasks in the same way that you do as an OT and achieves the same outcome would best be called

Service Competency

100

______work collaboratively, whereas ______are typically self-focused.

teams; groups

200

The behaviors of inspirational motivation, individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation, and idealized influence are most closely associated with this theory of leadership.

Transformational Leadership Theory

200

The ability of an individual to understand and manage their health is the definition of:

Health Literacy

200

This term reflects the involvement of both government and private industry in the healthcare system. 

Dualism

200

Determining the costs for staff salaries and benefits, equipment, and other operational expenses, as well as the amount of revenue anticipated, would best be described as which of the following functions of a manager?

Planning

200

Students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes is called what?

Interprofessional education

300

This theory of leadership consists primarily of two sets of strategies—managing by exception and providing contingent rewards. 

Transactional Leadership Theory

300

This theory of communication holds that the worth of a relationship is judged by its outcome.

Social Exchange Theory

300

Influencing factors from the legislative arena, the technology arena, and the sociocultural arena are most accurately described as factors from what environment? 

External Environment

300

This theory of motivation considers the importance placed upon a specific reward by an employee, recognizing that not all employees equally value the same rewards and experiences.

Vroom's Expectancy Theory

300

A team that engages in teaching and learning across disciplinary boundaries and entrusts, prepares, and supervises the sharing of disciplinary functions while retaining ultimate responsibility for services provided in their place by other team members.

Transdisciplinary Team

400

This leadership style/theory will depend on the readiness of the person being led (i.e. the follower).

Situational Leadership Theory 

400

This is considered as nonverbal aspects of communication.

Paralinguistics 

400

This type of systems perspective views organizations as different from other types of social groups, benefiting from specific goals, highly formalized, and functions through implementation of rules.

Rational Systems Perspective

400

Which of the following is NOT a condition recommended by the AOTA to be present when a client-related task is assigned to an occupational therapy aide: the anticipated outcome of the intervention is predictable; the situation will not require judgment or adaptation by the aide; the situation will be formally documented in the medical record as completed by an aide; OR the client has demonstrated some competency to complete the task before and the task process is routine. 

The situation will be formally documented in the medical record as completed by an aide.

400

Explicit measures, indicators, or statements that define specific areas of knowledge, skills, and abilities related to essential functions and assigned duties within a job or role are best called

Competencies

500

This is NOT one of the six steps of the evidence-based management process? Assess the evidence for accuracy; Present the evidence to those who act on it; Characterize the evidence as quantitative or qualitative; Frame a question related to a decision

Characterize the evidence as quantitative or qualitative

500

This process of measuring performance includes three phases: 1) establishing standards, 2) measuring performance, and 3) correcting deviations.

The Process of Controlling or Controlling

500

In these types of organizations, excess revenues are distributed to investors as dividends. 

For-profit organizations

500

In this model of supervision, the same assumptions are made about the nature of what constitutes an effective supervisor-trainee relationship as what constitutes an effective therapist-client relationship.

Psychotherapy-based model

500

Which of the following best names a team composed of persons with specific expertise and knowledge from different functional areas who work together to achieve an assigned goal or fulfill a specific purpose for the organization, where each member brings his or her expertise and contributes in a unique way to the team’s functioning and outcomes?

Cross-Functional Work Team

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