Leadership
Encourages others to be their best selves as they work collaboratively in pursuit of common organizational or unit goals
What is Effective Leadership?
Involves the transfer of responsibility for the performance of an activity to another person while retaining accountability for the outcome.
What is Delegation?
To plan, organize, direct, and control available human, material, and financial resources to deliver quality care to patients and families.
What is the role of Management?
A systematic way to form and shape one’s thinking.
What is Critical Thinking?
The nurse is formulating a care plan for a patient in a long-term care facility who has lost 12 lb in the last 2 months. To arrive at a patient-centered nursing judgment, what will the nurse do first ?
What is assess the patient's food intake and hydration over the last 1 to 3 days.
Designated leadership, by force of personality, have power to influence.
What is Implied Power?
They are committed to monitoring the regulation, education, and use of AP, recommends adherence to 10 broad principles guiding RN's prior to delegating care
Who is ANA?
American Nursing Association
A process to work through conflicts in a way that minimizes negative effects and promotes positive consequences.
What is Conflict Management?
Clear, precise, specific, accurate, relevant, plausible, consistent, logical, deep, broad, complete, significant, adequate and fair.
What are Standards for Critical Thinking ?
A patient who is receiving cancer chemotherapy tells the nurse, "The treatment for this cancer is worse than the disease itself. I'm stopping treatment." Which nursing action best promotes a patient-centered, therapeutic relationship?
What is Reassessing the patient and determining how to best support them ?
Also called directive leadership or authoritarian leadership involves the leader assuming control over the decisions and activities of the group
An RN on a telemetry unit is falling behind while performing assessments and administering medications. Which task can the nurse safely delegate to the AP?
What is a task that does not require professional judgment and can be delegated to AP.
What they can delegate are assistance with basic care activities (bathing, grooming, ambulation, feeding) and things like taking vital signs, measuring intake and output, weighing, simple dressing changes, transfers, and postmortem care.
Practices that give nurses more input and influences over their jobs and how the organization makes decisions that affect them
What is Shared Governance ?
The nursing philosophy in an acute care hospital includes a commitment to deliver thoughtful, person-centered care. Which description of the nursing process best supports this commitment?
What is Interpersonal ?
A new graduate nurse phones the surgeon to report their patient is having severe incisional pain. The surgeon asks about vital signs and appearance of the wound, causing the nurse to return to the bedside for additional assessments. Upon reflection with the preceptor, which characteristic of the nursing process should the nurse have remembered ?
What is Systemic ?
A philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better organizations, and ultimately creates a more caring world
What is Servant Leadership?
A nurse manager on a med surg unit is assigning care responsibilities for the oncoming shift. A client is awaiting transfer back to the unit from the PACU following throacic surgery. To which staff member should the nurse assign this client?
Who is an RN?
Must be able to juggle multiple priorities, communicate effectively, and work well with various stakeholders.
What are Nurse Managers ?
An oncology nurse is analyzing a patient's strengths and finds the patient is well educated, learns quickly, and is resilient. In which phase of the nursing process will the nurse use this information ?
What is Diagnosing ?
Assisting patients to select meals based on their cultural observances, Providing nursing care based on patients' needs and preferences, and Listening to a patient's concern for their ill significant
other.
What are actions that Demonstrate Patient Centered Care?
A charge nurse on the step-down unit will likely use which leadership style during resuscitation efforts for a cardiac arrest?
What is Autocratic Leadership?
5 Rights of Delegation
What are the right Task, Circumstance, Person, Direction/ Communication, Supervision
After observing conflicts between nurses about scheduling, a nurse manager compliments the nurses for achieving the monthly goal of no patient falls. What strategy for conflict resolution did the manager display?
What is smoothing ?
The nursing assessment of a patient with a diagnosis of anorexia nervosa reveals the patient consumes a vegan diet of 700 calories daily and has lost 30 1b in 4 months. The nurse's recommendation to meet with a nutritionist is the outcome of which process?
What is Clinical Judgment ?
The development of clinical judgment requires intentional focus and a willingness to grow and change both personally and professionally. How can a nursing student best foster the development of clinical judgment?
What is Developing a model for learning that integrates feedback and reflection ?