Leadership Exam 1 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT AND ACCURATE!

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN) - ANSWERA group of nurses, prepared at the graduate level, with defined roles and scopes who function in expanded nursing roles. Those roles are: certified registered nurse anesthetists, certified nurse midwives, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse practitioners. Many states allow them to practice independently. Clinical processes - ANSWERA defined sequence of steps needed to ensure that basic functions are fulfilled in a standardized manner, ensuring safety and quality, such as medication procurements and administration. Complexity theory - ANSWERRequires leaders to expand and respond to engaging dynamic change and focus on relationships rather than on prescribing and approaching change as a lock-step, pre-prescribed method. Traditional organizational hierarchy plays a less significant role as the "keeper of high level knowledge" and replaces it with the idea that knowledge applied to complex problems is better distributed among the human assets within an organization, without regard to hierarchy. Leaders try less to control the future and spend more time influencing, innovating, and responding to the many factors that influence health care. Emerges from the work of physical and social sciences. Emotional intelligence - ANSWERMonitoring emotions in a situation to guide actions and inform thought processes. Characterized by social skills, interpersonal competence, psychological maturity, and emotional awareness that helps people harmonize to increase their value in the workplace. Five domains: deepening self awareness and encouraging others to do the same; managing emotions in self and others; motivating self and others; being empathetic; fostering and handling relationships. Evidence-based organizational practice - ANSWERScientifically derived approaches to delivering care that optimizes professional roles, practices, and coordination of activities. Magnet Recognition Program - ANSWERThe only national designation built on and evolving through nursing research that is designed to recognize nursing excellence of healthcare organizations through a self-nominating, appraisal process.