verified answers
2. Providing good eye contact
3. Demonstrating a calm presence
4. Spending time attentively with the patient - correct answer ✔✔ The nurse therapeutically
responds to an adult patient who is anxious by: (Select all that apply.)
1. Matching the rate of speech to be the same as that of the patient
2. Providing good eye contact
3. Demonstrating a calm presence
4. Spending time attentively with the patient
5. Assuring the patient that all will be well
Offers 46 certification programs for RNs, awards hospitals who meet criteria for providing
quality of care/recruiting/retaining nurses. Established the MAGNET program. Established in
1973 by the ANA to implement tangible evidence of professional achievement of nurses. In
charge of accrediting nursing schools, certifying nursing programs and providing excellence
programs for organizations (hospitals) that are committed to providing nurses with a positive
nursing practice environment. - correct answer ✔✔ ANCC
American Nursing Credentialing Center
ANCC
(American Nursing Credentialing Center) - correct answer ✔✔ What organization established
the MAGNET program, is in charge of accrediting nursing schools and has 46 certifications for
RNs?
,Recognition by the American Nurses Credentialing Center that an organization provides quality
nursing care and fosters a positive environment for the nurse to practice. - correct answer ✔✔
MAGNET Recognition Program:
Transformational leadership
Structural empowerment
Exemplary professional practice
New knowledge, innovation, and improvements
Empirical quality results - correct answer ✔✔ magnet status components
-vision for the future
-resources to achieve the vision created by nurses
-quality of nursing leadership
-management style - correct answer ✔✔ Magnet: Transformational Leadership:
Power
Power enables the leader to influence others and by doing this, the leader can change staff
attitudes and behaviors.
(Vision=view of organization in the future)
(Influence=informal strategy of cooperation combined with formal authority of a position to
develop trust)
(Values=the importance that is attached to something that guides action) - correct answer ✔✔
Sample question: Which concept related to transformational leadership allows the nurse
manager to change staff attitudes and behaviors towards meeting an expected outcome?
a. vision
b. influence
c. values
, d. power
-structures and processes provide innovative environment
-staff are developed and empowered and practice flourishes
-includes organizational structure, personnel policies/programs, community and health
organizations,
-"image of nursing"
-professional development - correct answer ✔✔ Magnet: Structural Empowerment:
Strong professional practice established, accomplishments of the practice are demonstrated
-professional models of care
-consultation and resources
-autonomy
-nurses as teachers
-interprofessional relationships - correct answer ✔✔ Magnet: Exemplary Professional Practice
Contributions are made to the profession in the form of new models of care, use of existing
knowledge, generation of new knowledge, and contributions to the science of nursing.
-QUALITY IMPROVEMENT - correct answer ✔✔ Magnet: New Knowledge, Innovations,
Improvements
Focus is on structure and processes and demonstration of positive, clinical, workforce, patient
and organizational outcomes.
-QUALITY OF CARE - correct answer ✔✔ Magnet: Empirical Quality Results:
clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and
patient characteristics and preferences
-problem solving