Chapter Six: Decision Making and Delegating
Chapter Seven: Nurse as Supervisor and Evaluator
Chapter Eight: Nurse as Change Agent and Advocate
Chapter Nine: Negotiator and Mediator
Chapter Ten: Career Advancement
100
Establish the standard of care for each diagnosis and the outcome that should be anticipated.
What are clinical pathways.
100
An individual who directs the activities of others as related to a particular endeavor.
What is supervisor.
100
Factors encouraging change that originate outside the person or organization.
What is external forces.
100
The dissenesion that occurs when two or more individuals with different values, interests, goals, or needs view things from dissimilar perspectives.
What is conflict.
100
A profession or occupation for which one trains and which one pursues as a life work.
What is career.
200
A general agreement that the members of the group will support a specific strategy even if it was not their most preferred strategy.
What is consensus.
200
To instruct or train; to devlop potential.
What is coach.
200
Helping clients to be autonomous and informed decision makers and to accomplish their own goals and objectives.
What is advocacy.
200
Refers to the process of intervention between conflicting parties to promote reconciliation, settlement, or compromise.
What is mediation.
200
A process by which you develop a master plan for career advancement.
What is career mapping.
300
Transferring to a competent individual the authority to perform a selected nursing task in a selected situation. The nurse retains accountability.
What is delegation.
300
An individual who serves as a role model, guide, and support to a novice.
What is mentor.
300
Occurs part way to the goal of the change when individuals begin feeling overwhelmed by the expectations and begin to lose their enthusiasm for the change.
What is change fatigue.
300
Occurs when there is a lack of clarity regarding the duties responsibilities, and authority associated with a particular position.
What is role ambiguity.
300
The activity of seekings out or attracting applicants for existing or anticipated positions.
What is recruitment.
400
Used to describe the entire set of tasks and responsibilities given to an individual.
What is assignment.
400
Written statements that describe the duties and functions of the various jobs within the organization.
What is job description.
400
The restricting of an individual's liberty by making decisions for the person, in the manner of a father making decisions for his children.
What is paternalism.
400
Occurs when the individual involved in conflict chooses not to address the issue at hand.
What is avoiding or withdrawing.
400
A brief overview of your qualifications for a position.
What is a resume.
500
A type of decision making in which a group of people gather and sugest all possible alternatives that they can envision to a problem.
What is brainstorming.
500
Expected behaviors of the registered nurse that can be used as a basis for measuring performance.
What are standards of nursing practice.
500
Factors that tend to restrict an individual from successfully acting as an advocate.
What is constraints on advocacy.
500
The process of reaching an agreement through conferring, bargaining, or discussing the issues in which both parties give something and both parties gain.
What is negotiation.
500
A style of nursing where individuals who choose to go into business for themselves.
What is entrepreneurial.