Leadership and Management
Manager responsible for supervising nonmanagerial personnel and day-to-day activities of a specifice work unit.
What is a first-level manager?
Willingness to invest in decision making and expres ownership in decisions.
What is accountability?
A process that aims to influcence public policy decisions and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions.
What is advocacy?
A scheduling system where there is a single, dedicated scheduler (or scheduling system) responsible all scheduling in the organization.
What is centralized scheduling?
Process by which patient information is shared by nurses who have taken care of the paitient on the previous shift and are reporting to the oncoming staff.
What is change of shift report?
The act of planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling day to day functions.
What is management?
This type of council deals withpatient care practices and isses at the point of patient care.
While nurses represent of the largest workforces in the nation with over 3 million, only 5% belong to this professional organization.
What is the American Nurses' Association?
The level of patient care that is required based on the severity of a patient's illness or condition.
What is patient acuity?
A template for communication among professionals that includes information about the situation, background, assessment, and recommendation.
What is SBAR?
The use of individual traits and personal power to influence guide strategy development.
What is leadership?
Shared decision making based on the principles of partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership at the point of service.
What is shared governance?
The workplace, the government, professional organizations, and the community.
What are the four areas for political action in nursing?
The first state to implement minimum nurse-to-patient staffing reqirements in acute care hosptials.
What is California?
When using this type of communication, avoid irony, sarcasm and emotional tones.
What is e-mail?
A type of leadership style that focuses on the exchange of skills, knowledge, ressources, or effort between leaders and their subordinates.
What is transactional leadership?
The concept that no single role is more important that any other role.
What is equity?
Defined at the choices that a society or organization make regarding its priorities and the ways it allocates resources.
What is policy?
Lack of potential educators, high turnover, and inequitable workforce distribution.
What are causes related to the nursing shortage?
Coaching, mentoring, delegating and directing.
What are the 4 communication styles of leadership?
A leadership style that inspires employees to strive beyond required expectations to work toward a shared vision.
What is transformational leadership?
Unit-based councils, specialty nursing councils, coordination councils, and leadership councils.
What are examples of a shared governance in nursing?
Reducing gun violence, nursing shortage, appropriate staffing, workplace health and safety, enviornmental issues, and opiod crisis.
What are the major arenas of politcal action impacting nursing?
Nurses experience burnout, dissatisfaction, and the patients experienced higher mortality.
What are results of the nursing shortage?
Examples of this can be stated as active listening, giving and taking feedback, empathy, and respectfulness, responsiveness, having clarity in messages, understanding non-verbal data, building friendliness and confidence, adapting your communication style to the audience.
What is an example of effective communication?