Leadership Styles
This leadership style involves inspiring and motivating team members to achieve a shared vision and goals.
What is transformational leadership?
This communication technique involves restating what someone has said to ensure understanding and is crucial for effective nurse leadership.
What is active listening
This routine task involving measuring and recording a patient's temperature, blood pressure, pulse, and respiration can typically be delegated to a nursing assistant
What are vital signs
A nurse has interviewed with the nurse manager for a position and is very interested in obtaining it. After the interview, what would be an appropriate action to take?
Send a post-interview thank-you letter the following day.
This leadership style focuses on strict rules, clear expectations, and top-down decision-making, often used in high-risk environments like the military.
What is authoritarian (or autocratic) leadership?
This type of communication includes facial expressions, body language, and gestures, often more powerful than words in patient interactions.
This critical nursing responsibility involving determining a patient's health status and needs cannot be delegated to unlicensed assistive personnel.
What is patient assessment
This is a common question asked during nursing interviews to evaluate a candidate's approach to patient care and teamwork.
What is "Can you tell me about a time when you had to handle a difficult patient or coworker".
This leadership style encourages team collaboration, values input from all members, and fosters a sense of shared decision-making.
What is democratic leadership?
This standardized communication tool helps nurses relay patient information clearly and efficiently to healthcare providers.
What is SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation)?
This principle ensures that a nurse assigns tasks appropriately based on a team member's training, skills, and legal scope of practice.
What are the Five rights of delegation
This common opening question asks candidates to summarize their background, experiences, and why they want to pursue nursing.
Tell me a little bit about yourself
A leader using this hands-off approach gives employees freedom to make decisions with minimal supervision.
What is laissez-faire leadership?
Nurses use this open-ended statement technique to encourage patients to share more about their feelings or concerns.
What is "Tell me more about that?"
The Five Rights of Delegation include "The Right Task, The Right Circumstance, The Right ____________ The Right Instructions and The Right ______________
What are Person and Supervision
Employers often ask this question to gauge how well a candidate's professional values align with the hospital or healthcare facility.
"Why do you want to work here?"
A nurse is teaching a class on leadership. The nurse should include which types of leaders use rewards to meet goals.
Transactional Leader
Noise, language differences, and emotional distress are examples of these obstacles that can hinder effective nurse-patient communication.
What are communication barriers?
The nurse on a med-surg floor has 8 patients:
at 10:00am the following tasks need to be completed
Vital Signs, Bed baths, Fingerstick and trach care
Which of these task cannot be delegated to the CNA
What is Trach Care
These hospitals are known for their high standards in patient care, nursing leadership, staff satisfaction, and innovation. They prioritize evidence-based practice, professional development, and a positive work environment that attracts and retains top nursing talent.
Magnet Designation status is a symbol of quality and is associated with better patient outcomes and higher nurse job satisfaction