Leadership Theories
This theory focuses on the characteristics of a leader
What is Trait Theory?
The ability to monitor feelings and emotions and self and others, and to discern among this information to guide one's thinking and actions.
What is emotional intelligence?
This involves determining long-term objectives of the organization and setting priorities.
What is strategic planning?
a variety of settings, such as urgent care centers, long-term care, public health, and rehabilitation centers, in which nursing practice extends beyond the hospital setting.
What are alternative care settings?
the entry into or the use of healthcare services.
What is access to care?
The Fielder's model, Hersey and Blanchard's situational leadership model, and Vroom and Yetton's expectancy model are all examples of this leadership theory.
What is the Contingency Theory
This type of management focuses on efficiencies created through establishment of standards, time-motion studies, task analysis, job simplification, and productivity incentives.
What is scientific management?
A condition that is a deliberate move away from secrecy and opaqueness.
What is organizational transparency?
These types of relationships allow for entities to come together in such a way that both organizational autonomy and coalition of power are maintained.
What are network relationships?
A subspecialty within the healthcare industry that focuses on creating physical environments that promote health and wellbeing for patients and staff.
What is healthcare design?
These two types of leaders believe that behavior change is internally inspired.
What are democratic and laissez-faire?
This man is known as the father of modern quality control, and brought together disciplines of statistics, engineering, and economics to develop the control chart.
This type of planning involves the day-to-day operations, including business in the moment and the proactive determination of what is to be done during unexpected occurrences.
What is Contingency Planning?
While this type of culture is not preferred because of its use of coercion, threats of punishment, and clear direction of actions to gain compliance, it may be the best approach in some crisis situations.
What is an autocratic culture?
The study of the prevalence of a disease or health condition and the factors that determine its prevalence.
What is epidemiology?
This form of leadership is derived from the principles of social-exchange theory, which implies that there are reciprocal social, political, and psychological benefits for the manager and the employee that should be equal to maintain balance
What is Transactional Leadership
A challenging type of communication that occurs across the organization between departments.
What is lateral/diagonal communication?
The organization's reputation, improved communication among stakeholder, and involvement of current and future members are all representative of this.
What are the Values of Transparency?
A system of shares actions, values, and beliefs that develop within an organization and guides the behavior of its members.
What is corporate culture
This agency is a federal agency concerned with codes that pertain to reducing risk for harm in healthcare environments.
What is Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
This form of leadership, like shared governance, if a key principle in ANCC's Magnet Recognition Program, as it encourages an atmosphere of supportive trust and self-actualization.
What is Transformational Leadership
The four key concepts (nurse, person, environment, and health) that are incorporated into all nursing theories.
This requires clarity and consensus about what constitutes success, open access to information, and confidence in the competence of all involved.
What is cultural trust?
A system in which the focus is on keeping patients healthy as a way to use resources most efficiently and decrease the need for hospitalization.
What is an integrated healthcare system?
Healthcare industry issues such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices, litigation, increased demand, excessive administrative expense, waste, and fraud.
What are the driving forces for healthcare costs?