SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Educational levels of nursing - ✔✔Diploma, ADN, BSN, MSN, Doctorate
✔✔Personal leadership skills - ✔✔Commitment to excellence, problem-solving skills
including a clear vision and strategic focus that allow movement forward toward a
creative solution, commitment to a passion for one's work, trustworthiness and integrity,
respectfulness, accessibility, empathy and caring, responsibility to enhance the
personal growth of all staff. Self-evaluation.
✔✔Leadership Styles - ✔✔Autocratic Leadership, Democratic leadership, Laissez-
Faire, Quantum, Transactional, Tranformational
✔✔Autocratic Leadership - ✔✔Called directive leadership or authoritarian leadership,
involves the leader assuming control over the decisions and activities of the group
✔✔Democratic Leadership - ✔✔Also called participative leadership, is characterized by
a sense of equality among the leader and other participants
✔✔Laisezz-faire Leadership - ✔✔Also called nondirective leadership, the leader
relinquishes power to the group such that an outsider could not identify the leader in the
group
✔✔Quantum Leadership - ✔✔Leadership that moves beyond the traditional mode
previously experienced by all levels of workers; spawned by the impact of the
information age on work and the workers
✔✔Transactional leadership - ✔✔Style based on a task and reward orientation
✔✔Transformational leadership - ✔✔Can you create revolutionary change, often
described as charismatic, transformational leaders are unique in their ability to inspire
and motivate others. Challenge themselves and others to grow personally and
professionally and to learn
✔✔Self esteem - ✔✔The need to feel good about oneself And to believe that others
hold one in high regard
✔✔Self actualization - ✔✔The need to reach one's potential through full development of
one's unique capability
✔✔Self-concept - ✔✔The mental image or picture of self, has the power to either
encourage or thwart personal growth
, ✔✔Ideal self - ✔✔Self a person would like to be or thinks one should be; includes
aspirations, moral ideas, and values
✔✔Global self - ✔✔Term used to describe the composite of all the basic facts, qualities,
traits, images and feelings one holds about oneself
✔✔Body image - ✔✔How a person experiences one's body
✔✔False self - ✔✔A sense of self that might develop in individuals who have the
emotional need to respond to the needs and ambitions that significant people such as
parents have for them
✔✔Adaption - ✔✔Adjustment of living with other living things and environmental
conditions
✔✔Attachment - ✔✔Active, affectionate, reciprocal relationship btw two persons.
✔✔Globalization - ✔✔
✔✔Local Adaptation Syndrome (LAS) - ✔✔A localized response of the body to stress. it
involves only a specific body part such as a tissue or organ instead of the whole body.
The stress precipitating the LAS may be traumatic or pathologic. Primary homeostatic,
short term adaptive response. Two most common response that influence nursing care
are reflex pain response and the inflammatory response.
✔✔Stressor - ✔✔Anything that is perceived as challenging threatening or demanding
✔✔Physiologic Stressors - ✔✔Both a specific and general effect. Specific effect is
alternation of normal body structure and function. General effect is the stress response.
Primary physiologic stressor include chemical agents (drugs, poison), physical agents
(heat, cold, trauma), infectious agents (viruses, bacteria), nutritional imbalances,
hypoxia, and genetic or immune disorders.
✔✔Psychological Stressors - ✔✔Both real and perceived threats. Persons response are
continuous and include individualized coping mechanisms for responding to anxiety,
guilt, fear, frustration, and loss. Ex. Fear of aggression or mutilation, such as muggings,
rape, murder, and terrorism.
✔✔Legislation at the state level for nurses - ✔✔Nurse Practice Act or Medical Practice
Act. Scope of practice for RN's, LPN's, advanced practice nurses. Nursing educational
requirements. Composition and disciplinary authority of board of nursing.
✔✔Civil laws - ✔✔Same as Private Law.