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30 complete questions with verified A+ solutions
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Chapter 01: Leading, Managing, and Following
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• A nurse manager of a 20-
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bed medical unit finds that 80% of the patients are older adults. Sheis asked to assess an
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d adapt the unit to better meet the unique needs of the older adult patient.Using comple
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xity principles, what would be the best approach to take for implementation of this cha
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a. Leverage the hierarchical management position to get unit staff in
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b. Engage involved staff at all levels in the decision-making process.
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c. Focus the assessment on the unit and omit the hospital and co
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d. Hire a geriatric specialist to oversee and control the project.
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Complexity theory suggests that systems interact and adapt and that decision m
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aking occursthroughout the systems, as opposed to being held in a hierarchy. In
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complexity theory, everyvoice counts, and therefore, all levels of staff would be
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TOP: AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building
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• A unit manager of a 25-
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bed medical/surgical area receives a phone call from a nurse who hascalled in sick five
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times in the past month. He tells the manager that he very much wants to come to work
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when scheduled but must often care for his wife, who is undergoing treatment
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for breast cancer. According toUMaSslow
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approach to satisfying the needs of this nurse, other staff, and patients?
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a. Line up agency nurses who can be called in to work on short notice.
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b. Place the nurse on unpaid leave for the remainder of his wife’s treatment.
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c. Sympathize with the nurse’s dilemma and let the charge nurse know that this nur jf jf jf jf jf jf jf jf jf jf jf jf jf
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may be calling in frequently in the future.
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d. Work with the nurse, staffing office, and other nurses to arrange his scheduled
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days off around his wife’s treatments.
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Placing the nurse on unpaid leave may threaten the nurse’s capacity to meet physi
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ologic needsand demotivate the nurse. Unsatisfactory coverage of shifts on short
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notice could affect patient care and threaten the needs of staff to feel competent.
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the wife’s needs meets the needs of the staff and of patients while satisfying the nur
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TOP: AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building
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• The charge nurse walks into Mr. Smith’s room and finds him yelling at the LPN. He i
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s obviously very upset. The charge nurse determines that he has not slept for three ni
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ghts because of unrelieved pain levels. The LPN is very upset and calls Mr. Smith an
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man.” The charge nurse acknowledges the LPN’s feelings and concerns and then
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suggests thatMr. Smith’s behavior was aggressive but was related to lack of sleep
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f and to pain. The charge nurse asks, “Can you, together with Mr. Smith, determin
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e triggers for the pain and effective approaches to controlling his pain?” This situ
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ation is an example of what?
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The situation between Mr. Smith and Miss Jones is a complex situation involvin
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g unrelievedpatient symptoms and aggressiveness toward a staff member. Provi
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ding engaged, collaborative guidance and decision making in a complex situatio
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n where there is no standardized solution reflects leadership.
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TOP: AONE competency: Leadership
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• After assessing an older adult patient in long-
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term care who has been slowly deteriorating forweeks, the nurse manager calls the fam
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ily and asks them to come in, as the patient is dying. What is the most likely basis for th
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e nurse manager’s request?
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a. An established clinical pathway
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The nurse manager is employing knowledge and experience in determining that
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the patient isdying, because the course of dying is not standardized and cannot b
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e determined by clinical pathways.
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TOP: AONE competency: Knowledge of the Health Care Environment
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• Chart audits have revealed significant omissions of data that could have legal and finan
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cial guideline ramifications. The unit manager meets with the staff to discuss audit findi
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ngs and tofind approaches that will address the gaps in charting and achieve desired goa
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ls. What is the manager demonstrating?
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a. Leadership
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The process of guiding others to meet established goals, outcomes, and procedu
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res is management. This can require collaborative decision making to determine
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TOP: AONE competency: Knowledge of the Health Care Environment
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• A family is keeping vigil at a critically ill patient’s bedside. Distant family members c
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all theunit continuously asking for updates and expressing concern. The nurse speaks
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with the distant family members and states she is referring them to the hospital social
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worker, whoserole is to work with family in this situation. What role is the nurse assu
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ming through this action?
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a. Manager
b. Leader
c. Follower
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As a manager, you are concerned with managing and coordinating resource
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s to achieveoutcomes in accordance with established clinical processes. Re
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ferral to a social workeralleviates demand on staff time and is consistent wi
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