Management
Process of planning, organizing, directing, and coordinating the work within an
organization
Leadership
Ability to inspire others to achieve a desired outcome
Authoritative leadership
makes decisions for the group
motivates by coercion
Good for crisis situations and bureaucratic settings
effective for employees with little or no formal education
Democratic leadership
Includes the group
motivates by supporting staff achievements
good when cooperation and collaboration are necessary
Laissez-faire
Makes very few decisions
effective with professional employees
Contemporary leadership theory
supports the belief that leaders can develop the necessary skills
Transformational leaders
empowers followers to assume responsibility for a communal vision and personal
development is a secondary outcome
Transactional leaders
focus on immediate problems, maintaining status Quo and using rewards to motivate
followers
Emotional intelligence
ability of an individual to perceive and manage the emotions of self and others
5 management functions
Planning
Organizing
staffing
directing
Controlling
clinical reasoning
mental process used when analyzing the elements of a clinical situation and using
analysis to make a decision
prioritization
Systemic before local
Acute before chronic
actual before potential
Maslows heirarchy
Self actualization
self esteem
love and belonging
, safety and security
physiological
Priority interventions
Airway
Breathing
Circulation
Disability
Exposure
Assigning
process of transferring the authority, accountability, and responsibility of a client care to
another member of the health care team
Delegating
process of transferring of authority and responsibility ti another team member to
complete a task
Supervising
process of directing, monitoring, and evaluating the performance of tasks by another
member of health care
5 rights of delegation
Right task
Right circumstance
Right person
Right direction and communication
Right supervision and evaluation
Socialization
person learns a new role and the values and culture of the group within which that role
is implemented
Novice nurse
students or newly licensed nurse with minimal clinical experience
theoretical perspective
Advance beginner
Most new nurses
practice independently
can make some clinical judgements
Competent nurse
2-3 years
increasing levels of skills and proficiency
ability to organize and plan care using abstract and analytical thinking
anticipate long term outcomes
proficient nurse
significant amount of experience
conceptualizes situations more holistically
recognize and respond to unexpected changes
Expert nurse
view situations holistically and process information efficiently
do not need to rely on rules to comprehend a situation and take action
Quality improvement