Questions With Complete Solutions
4 actions for leadership from Kouzes and Posner's
Transformational Leadership Survey Correct Answer - model
the way
- inspire a shared vision
- challenge the process
- encourage the heart
4 generations work side by side Correct Answer - traditionals
- baby boomers
- generation X
- millenials (generation Y)
Accreditation Correct Answer - received by meeting
standards made by the Joint Commission
- traditionally focused its standard on quality concerns in order
to improve the quality of care provided to the public
American Nurse Credentialing Center Correct Answer -
exams in 37 specialized and advanced practice fields
- enables all qualified RNs to become certified in 5 specialty
areas
American Organization for Nurse Executives (AONE) Core
Competencies Correct Answer Leadership:
,- communication and relationship management
- professionalism
- business skills and principles
- knowledge of health care environment
Authentic Leaders Correct Answer - connect to pressures of
front-line staff
- are passionate about creating quality work environment
- generate energy to do the impossible
Authoritarian Correct Answer - autocratic - made decisions
alone
- directive controlling
- concerned with the task rather than the people
Behaviors of an Effective Leader Correct Answer
Interpersonal: networking, conflict negotiation and resolution,
employee development, and rewards and punishments
Case Method Correct Answer - earliest
- nurses assigned to give total care to each client and reported to
the head nurse
- disadv - not all personnel were qualified to deliver all care and
too many people reporting to head nurse
Certification Correct Answer - an example of a structure
standard
- reflects certain qualifications of an *individual* rather than of
an agency
, - credential to enhance one's professional status
- voluntary for some specialities, but required for nurse
practitioners
- requirements usually include three stipulations: written
examination in a specific area of competence, active practice in
the specialty, and re-certification at specified periods
Clinical Practice Guidelines Correct Answer - assist
practitioners in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and
management of clinical conditions
- provide the patterns of practice for a particular condition
- used for evaluating quality of care, implementing improvement
strategies, and reducing cost of care
Common Leader Personality Traits Correct Answer -
intelligence
- social sensitivity
- social participation
- communication skills - KEY
Common Traits Correct Answer honesty, trustworthiness,
integrity, fair, skilled communicator, goal-oriented, dedicated,
committed, hard working
Conditions that Must be Met to claim injury due to negligence
Correct Answer - proof that the nurse owed a duty to the
patient
- proof that failure to act properly would cause harm to the
patient
- proof that the prevailing standard was not met
- proof that the injury directly resulted form the nurse's actions