N471 midterm Exam Questions and
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what makes a good leader? - ✔✔Inspires
Takes risks
Empowers others
Directs others
Involved
Goal oriented
Collaborate
Communicates well
Visionary
Determined
Details & facts
Needs data for decisions
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,Understands the team
Sees the organization as a whole
Fiscally aware
Transforms
1900-1930s: Frederick Taylor - scientific management - ✔✔Efficiency, control of time
and energy
Match employee to job
Employee motivated by money
Common goals
Roles of manager/employee separate
employee is more money driven (travel nursing)
Result = increased productivity and profit, efficiency
1920-1930s: Fayol / Gulick- management process - ✔✔Planning - what are the goals,
objectives, rules, changes - take an assessment and see what changes need to be made
Organizing - how will the changes occur, plans
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,Staffing - who will be responsible, team building
Directing - how will the work get done, motivating, conflict management, delegation,
collaboration - how will the leader get things done
Control - performance, evaluation, legal/ethical control, fiscal
1930-1970: Human Relations Era - ✔✔Managers are one WITH the employee - leaders
know what its like to be a floor nurse or a worker
Hawthorne effect - pay more attention to the worker, more productivity by the worker
Employee participation in decision making
Flexibility, see the worker, engage the worker
This sounds much like what the nursing structure is like today.
The Great Man Theory / Trait Theory - ✔✔Some are born to lead, others are born to be
led
Leadership trait questions:
What important leadership traits should nurses have?
Why is it important for nurses to be aware of their leadership traits?
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, How does emotional intelligence play a role? (Being aware of emotions, emotional
regulation, self-control)
Can you learn to be a leader? If so, how?
grow your own leadership skills and over time you will be more of a leader in your
profession
Interactional Leadership Theory & Transformational Leadership - ✔✔What is the
situation & how will the leader respond
Leader is a motivator
Performance & productivity
Use problem solving process
Has vision, able to empower & inspire staff
Manager models the behavior, encourages, shared values
Leaders & followers share same passion for work
Very goal and quality driven
Strengths-Based Leadership - ✔✔Empower the worker
Recognize uniqueness
Provide safe work environment
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what makes a good leader? - ✔✔Inspires
Takes risks
Empowers others
Directs others
Involved
Goal oriented
Collaborate
Communicates well
Visionary
Determined
Details & facts
Needs data for decisions
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,Understands the team
Sees the organization as a whole
Fiscally aware
Transforms
1900-1930s: Frederick Taylor - scientific management - ✔✔Efficiency, control of time
and energy
Match employee to job
Employee motivated by money
Common goals
Roles of manager/employee separate
employee is more money driven (travel nursing)
Result = increased productivity and profit, efficiency
1920-1930s: Fayol / Gulick- management process - ✔✔Planning - what are the goals,
objectives, rules, changes - take an assessment and see what changes need to be made
Organizing - how will the changes occur, plans
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,Staffing - who will be responsible, team building
Directing - how will the work get done, motivating, conflict management, delegation,
collaboration - how will the leader get things done
Control - performance, evaluation, legal/ethical control, fiscal
1930-1970: Human Relations Era - ✔✔Managers are one WITH the employee - leaders
know what its like to be a floor nurse or a worker
Hawthorne effect - pay more attention to the worker, more productivity by the worker
Employee participation in decision making
Flexibility, see the worker, engage the worker
This sounds much like what the nursing structure is like today.
The Great Man Theory / Trait Theory - ✔✔Some are born to lead, others are born to be
led
Leadership trait questions:
What important leadership traits should nurses have?
Why is it important for nurses to be aware of their leadership traits?
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, How does emotional intelligence play a role? (Being aware of emotions, emotional
regulation, self-control)
Can you learn to be a leader? If so, how?
grow your own leadership skills and over time you will be more of a leader in your
profession
Interactional Leadership Theory & Transformational Leadership - ✔✔What is the
situation & how will the leader respond
Leader is a motivator
Performance & productivity
Use problem solving process
Has vision, able to empower & inspire staff
Manager models the behavior, encourages, shared values
Leaders & followers share same passion for work
Very goal and quality driven
Strengths-Based Leadership - ✔✔Empower the worker
Recognize uniqueness
Provide safe work environment
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