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Vocabulary
Important Facts
Advocacy
Leadership
100
Ability to influence or lead
Leadership
100
What are the 3 goals HOSA hopes to achieve?
1. Promote career opportunities in the health care industry 2. Enhance and promote the delivery of quality health care to all people 3. Encourage all health occupations students and instructors to be actively involved in current health care issues
100
What is advocating on a patients behalf?
Advocating on behalf of a patient is to come to his or her aid or to give voice to his or her concerns.
100
Assist, Encourage, Monitor, and Evaluate are all common goals of which person in a team?
ThE LeAdEr
200
A quality of importance; tasks of high value are more urgent than items of low value
Priority
200
Give 3 Leadership skills that are learned through membership in a professional organization
•Professional Ethics •Communication and Interpersonal Skills •Leadership skills •Ability to recognize and initiate change •How to organize activities and people •Time Management •Establishing Priorities •Budgeting •Fund Raising •Current Health Issues
200
True or False? As an advocate, one can be the patient, and can sometimes speak for their thoughts.
FALSE
200
Which of the following are NOT leaders? Cop Cheerleader Enthusiast Referee Coach Naysayer Facilitator
3 - Cop - Referee - Naysayer
300
An amount of money allocated for a particular purpose
Budget
300
Give 3 benefits of belonging to a professional organization
•Updates on new technology •Communication with other geographical areas •Shared resources •Resources for employment opportunities •Current legislative issues •Interaction with other health professionals •Pooled money to accomplish changes for the good of the occupation/profession •Power as a united group to encourage positive change •Development of new ideas that support growth
300
A patient with breast cancer wants to only use homeopathy and diet to combat cancer. Her oncologist recommends a lumpectomy, radiation treatments, and oral chemotherapy. What should the nurse advocate do for the patient? A) Without any thought, let the patient have her choice B) Discuss Pro's and Cons with patient for both choices, and educate the patient, and then leave it to the patient to decide. C) Secretly let the oncologist perform her treatments D) Kick her out of the country
B) Discuss Pro's and Cons with patient for both choices, and educate the patient, and then leave it to the patient to decide.
300
Which of these IS NOT an important steps to take, in order to become a leader: •Developing a superior skill level •Becoming a decision maker •Being a good communicator •Developing a balanced focus on tasks and people
TRICK QUESTION! They are all important steps :P
400
The student organization for health occupation students at the secondary, postsecondary, adult, and college level
HOSA
400
Give 3 ways to find a professional organization
•Asking Fellow Employees •Reading the Bulletin Boards at work •Reading professional journals •Reading brochures •Attending occupationally related in-service programs •Checking the Occupational Outlook Handbook
400
When a patient gets discharged, he/she might not have transportation. In this situation, what is the role of an Advocate?
The role of the advocate is to ask the patient what they would like, and arrange the appropriate type of transportation as requested.
400
Give 3 leadership skills/job that a leader is expected to have
•Evaluates the individual members of the group and their goals •Provides guidance necessary to the individual members of the group that best facilitates each member functioning at their highest level of performance •Promotes an environment that facilitates excellence in the individual and the group •Respects the rights, dignity, opinions, and abilities of others •Understands his or her own strengths and weaknesses •Displays self-confidence and willingness to take a stand •Communicates effectively and states ideas clearly •Shows self-initiative and a willingness to work •Completes tasks •Shows optimism •Is open-minded and can compromise •Praises others and gives credit to others
500
Spoken at the spur of the moment without preparation or notes
Extemporaneous
500
What is a "Champion of the cause?"
An advocate
500
In the process of being an advocate, A)the goal is to make the patient an advocate also, in the near future. B) the main goal of an advocate is to work with the patient and speak for their desires, C) An advocate must represent them. D) ONLY A and B
D) ONLY A and B An advocate must never represent a patient
500
The boss conducts a meeting, stating the goals he wants to achieve and commands his workers to perform them, without any questions or concerns. What type of leadership is this?
Autocratic