1. Leading, Managing, and Following
2. Developing the Role of Leader
3. The Multidimensional Role of the Nurse Manager: Developing for Success
4. Nursing Leadership in Indigenous Health
5. Nursing Students as Leaders
6. Ethical Concerns and Challenges
7. Legal Concerns in Nursing Leadership and Management
8. Making Decisions and Solving Problems
9. The Canadian Health Care System
10. Understanding and Designing Organizational Structures
11. Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Decolonization: Responsive Leading and Managing in
Health Care
12. Power, Politics, and Influence
PART 2 Managing Resources
13. Caring and Communicating in Nursing With Technology
14. Managing Costs and Budgets
15. Care Delivery Strategies
16. Staffing and Scheduling
17. Selecting, Developing, and Evaluating Staff
PART 3 Changing the Status Quo
18. Strategic Planning and Goal Setting
19. Nurses Leading Change: A Relational Emancipatory Framework for Health and Social Actio n
20. Building Teams Through Communication and Partnership
21. Collective Nursing Advocacy
22. Understanding Safety, Quality, and Risk
23. Translating Research Into Practice
PART 4 Interpersonal and Personal Skills
24. Understanding and Resolving Conflict
,25. Managing Personnel Challenges
26. Workplace Violence and Incivility
27. Interprofessional and Intraprofessional Practice and Leading in Professional Practice Setting s
28. Role Transition
29. Self-Management: Stress and Time
30. Leading and Managing Your Career
, Yoder-Wise's Leading and Managing in Canadian Nursing 3rd Edition Yoder-Wise Test Bank
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1. A nurse manager of a 20-
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bed medical unit finds that 80% of the patients are older adults. She is asked to assess and adapt t
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he unit to better meet the unique needs of older adult patients. According to complexity principl
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es, what would be the best approach to take in making this change?
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a. Leverage the hierarchical management position to get unit staff involved in as rf rf rf rf rf rf rf rf rf rf rf
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c. Focus the assessment on the unit, and omit the hospital and community en
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d. Hire a geriatric specialist to oversee and control the project.
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ughout the systems, as opposed to being held in a hierarchy. In complexity theory, everybody’s
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opinion counts; therefore, all levels of staff would be involved in decision making.
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called in sick five times in the past month. He tells the manager that he very much wants to com
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e to work when scheduled, but must often care for his wife, who is undergoing treatment for brea
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st cancer. In the practice of a strengths-
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based nursing leader, what would be the best approach to satisfying the needs of this nurse, othe
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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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y 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 da
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ys off around his wife’s treatments.
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Placing the nurse on unpaid leave may threaten physiologic needs and demotivate the nurse. Uns
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atisfactory coverage of shifts on short notice could affect patient care and threaten staff member
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s’ sense of competence. Strengths-
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based nurse leaders honour the uniqueness of individuals, teams, systems, and organizations; th
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erefore arranging the schedule around the wife’s needs would result in a win-
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win situation, also creating a work environment that promotes the health of all the nurses and fa
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