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Leadership N222
Leadership and Management (Karcher)
Term | Definition |
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Transactional | traditional boss image. Understands there is a superior that makes decisions with little or no input from other. |
Transformational | seeks input from others, collaborates, consensus seeking, works on interpersonal skills |
Formal | Person who has the title and office. Based on official position in organization. |
Informal | person without office and title. Has followers'. Has respect of individuals. Derive power from their unique characteristics. |
Core Traits of Leaders | Passion, integrity, curiosity, intelligence, interpersonal skills. |
Styles of Leadership | Autocratic, laissez-faire, democratic |
Autocratic | authoritative, dictation, strong control over group |
Autocratic | works well in code or disaster situation |
Laissez-faire | permissive little or no control over the group |
Laissez-faire | no direction, but you know end product |
Democratic | less control, decision making involves others |
Management Functions | planning, staffing, organizing, directing, controlling |
Planning | philosophy, goals, objectives, managing planned change |
Staffing | recruiting, interviewing, hiring, and staffing development |
Organization | determine patient care delivery, working within within the structure of the organization |
Directing | human resources management, motivating, conflict management, delegating. |
Controlling | performance appraisals & quality control |
Nurse Practice Act | law in each state protecting you. Board of nursing enforces this and it defines scope of practice- legal |
Nurse Practice Act | LPN, RN, APN |
Nurse Practice Act | in charge of examination and education guidelines. They also design the scope of the practice |
ANA | Code of ethic & Standards of practice. Not legal |
Communication Skills | Aggressive & Passive |
Aggressive | communication is direct and in a hostile manner that does infringe on a person's right |
Passive | occurs when a person suffers in silence although they feel very strongly about an issue |
aggressive | "I'm gonna humiliate you & prove you did wrong." |
passive | these people avoid conflict |
Emotional Intelligence | capacity to get optimal results from relationships with others |
Accountability | individual agrees to be morally responsible for the consequence of their actions |
leadership | key to organizational success |
communication skills | the exchange of thoughts, messages, or information by speech, signals, writing or behavior |
assertive communication | allows one to express themselves in a direct honest approach that does not infringe on another person's right |
time management | making optimal use of available time |
time management | time to be set aside for planning; completion of highest priority task and completion of one task before starting another; reprioritization of new task based on new information |
change theory | dynamic process leading to alteration in behavior |
change agent | good leadership skills are needed to take you through the change process |
Strategies of Change: Traditional | normative;rational;power |
normative | reeducative |
rational | empirical |
power | coercion |
normative | social/group norms, influenced by peers to change |
rational | if you give them evidence and information, they will change |
power | threatening with authoritative model |
lewin's model of change | planned change occurs in a 3 step process: unfreezing, moving and refreezing |
unfreezing | assessing and planning |
moving | implementation |
refreezing | evaluation |
conflict | internal or external discord that results from differences in values, ideas or feelings between two or more people |
intergroup conflict | between two or more groups of people, departments, or organizations |
interpersonal conflict | "horizontal violence" or "bulling" happens between two or more people with differing values, goals and beliefs. |
workplace violence | various antisocial behaviors and incidents that lead a person to believe that he or she has been harmed by the experience |
compromising | each party gives up something it wants |
competing | one party pursues what it wants at the expense of others |
coooperating/accomodating | one party sacrifices his or her beliefs and allows the other to win |
smoothing | one person smoothes others involved in the conflict to reduce the emotional component of the conflict |
avoiding | both parties aware but choose not to acknowledge it or resolve it |
collaborating | an assertive and cooperative means of resolution that results in a win-win situation |
organizational structure | centralization and decentralization |
centralization | no input from people below; limited number of people at the top making decisions |
decentralization | everyone has input |
chain of command | formal path of communication |
Nursing Care Delivery | transitional: total care, functional, team nursing, primary nursing, modular nursing |
Nursing Care Delivery | contemporary: case management, patient centered care, differentiated practice |
total care | referred to as the case method |
total care | total responsibility for the planning and delivery care to a patient |
total care | high autonomy |
total care | RN delivers everything- making all of the decisions |
total care | you dont have to delegate to anyone |
total care | still working under HCP orders |
functional nursing | also known as task nursing |
functional nursing | assembly line |
functional nursing | used by ancillary services |
functional nursing | fragmented care |
functional nursing | decreased staff satisfaction and patient satisfaction |
team nursing | group dynamics |
team nursing | has a leader who is not a the bedside, but makes the assignments |
team nursing | team conference |
team nursing | job satisfaction |
primary nursing | relationship based nursing |
primary nursing | model of organizing- bring back RN to the bedside |
primary nursing | autonomy, authority, accountability |
primary nursing | from admission to discharge |
primary nursing | 24 hour responsibility |
modular nursing | team concepts in small groups that remain constant |
modular nursing | are defined in a geographical area |
case management | quality care while streamlining cost |
case management | critical pathways |
case management | expected outcomes with timeframes |
case management | standardized care for diagnosis |
length of stay | used to measure the duration of a single episode of hospitalization |
nurse role in LOS | as soon as patient is admitted the nurse must have a discharge plan in place |