Teamwork in Leadership
Name 3 departments or people a nurse should contact before planning to discharge a patient.
What is social work, physician, transport, case management, family?
This leadership trait involves telling the truth even when it is uncomfortable.
What is honesty?
A nurse who ensures a patient fully understands their care plan and interventions before proceeding is enforcing this principle.
What is informed consent?
True or False: Only management needs to be present in a hospital in order to function.
False - both management and leadership need to be present for a hospital to function properly
Someone that meets organizational goals and objectives, uses reward and punishment effectively to achieve organizational goals and follows rules?
What is a good manager?
A patient needs a Foley catheter and accidentally contaminated the catheter what should they do next?
What is remain with the patient and call for a second nurse to retrieve a new sterile catheter.
A leader practices this when they admit mistakes instead of blaming others.
What is accountability?
Respecting a patient’s right to make their own decisions reflects this principle.
What is autonomy?
Responsibilities of a nurse leader.
What is communicate and motivate staff and recognize recognize successes.
Someone that uses trade-offs to meet goals, focuses on management tasks, and uses contingency reward.
What is a transactional leader?
A charge nurse assigns tasks based on staff skill level. This demonstrates what leadership skill.
What is delegation?
Being transparent about decisions and expectations helps build this within a team.
What is trust?
Speaking up about unsafe practices, even when challenged by other healthcare professionals demonstrates this ethical leadership action.
What is advocacy?
Roles of a nurse manager.
What is listen to staff, support, guide, scheduling
Someone that looks outward towards the larger organization is politically astute, and thinks in terms of change and renewal.
What is an integrated leader?
A nurse repeats a verbal order to confirm accuracy. This reflects what leadership principle.
What is effective communication?
This ethical behavior requires leaders to align their actions with their values.
What is integrity?
When questioned, nurse admits to their manager they didn’t document a vital sign appropriately and corrects the record immediately.
What is accountability?
A leadership style that prioritizes being of service to others.
What is servant leadership?
Someone that focuses on the development or empowerment of worker’s strengths. Recognizes that person and environment are integral, and that nurses function best in environments that focus on their strengths.
What is strength-based leadership?
The charge nurse encourages input from all team members. This demonstrates which leadership principle.
What is collaboration?
Listening without interrupting and acknowledging different viewpoints is an example of this respectful behavior.
What is active listening?
A nurse encounters a cultural practice that conflicts with first-line interventions. The nurse seeks a compromise to respect the cultural values of the patient, while continuing to uphold safe and effective clinical practices. This nurse demonstrated what principle in regard to culture?
What is cultural competence/sensitivity?
A leadership style that inspires followers to achieve great outcomes.
What is transformational leadership?
Someone that enjoys leading, leaders must be true to themselves and their values and act accordingly.
What is authentic leadership?