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Nursing
Undergraduate 1
02/14/2012

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Term

 

 

Eustress

Definition

 

 

 

The normal motivational stress humans undergo

Term

 

 

Enstress

Definition

 

 

Positive Stress

Term

 

 

Low Skill Recognition

Definition

 

 

not recognizing his or her own abilities as contributors to their own success

Term

 

 

Necessitating

Definition

 

 

The belief that a certain task must be done by a specifice person is a choice of limiting

Term

 

 

Role Ambiguity

Definition

 

The frustrations that result from unclear expectations for one's performance

Term

 

Good recruitment strategy

Definition

 

 

cross-training

Term

 

 

competency-based interviewing

(synonym)

Definition

 

 

Behavior interviewing

Term

 

 

Agreement between 2 interviews by same interviewer

Definition

 

 

Intrarater reliability

Term

 

 

Agreement between 2 interviews of same measure by different interviewers

Definition

 

 

Interrater reliability

Term

 

 

Ability to predict job performance

Definition

 

 

Validity

Term

 

Act that took effect in 1990 re:

 

handicapped?

Definition

 

 

Americans with Disability

Term

 

Quality Management

Definition

 

 

A preventative approach designed to address problems efficiently and quickly

Term

 

Evidence-based practice

Definition

 

 

applying best scientific evidence to a pts unique diagnosis, condition, and situation to make clinical decisions

Term

 

Line authority

Definition

 

 

Linear hierarchy through wich activity is directed

Term

 

 

benchmarking

Definition

 

 

A method of comparing performance using identified quality indicators across institutions or disciplines

Term

 

 

Contingency Theory

Definition

 

 

Managers adapt their leadership styles in relationship to changing situations.

 

Matching organization to it's environment

Term

 

 

Staff authority

Definition

 

advisory relationship in which responsibility for actual work is assigned to others

Term

 

 

Work redesign

Definition

 

 

Examining distribution of duties, role overlap, and waste

Term

 

 

Functional Nursing

Definition

 

 

Needs of a patient are broken down in Tasks and assigned to caregivers

Example: One med nurse, on IV nurse, one wound nurse etc...

Term

 

 

One  RN, one LPN, or UAP or both, care for a group of patients together

Definition

 

 

Team Nursing

Term

 

 

RN gives all care to same pt or pts for entire shift

Definition

 

 

Total pt care

(Case Method)

Term

 

 

Responsibility and authority for nursing care allocated to staff nurses a the Bedside

Definition

 

 

Primary Nursing

Term

 

 

Case Management

Definition

 

 

Focuses on attaining predetermined pt outcomes within specific time frames and resources

Term

 

 

Critical Pathways

Definition

 

 

Care Maps=expected outcomes/collaborative/interdiciplinary/measurable

Term

Leadership style

 

Motivated by external forces: power, authority, need for approval

Definition

 

 

Autocratic

Term

Leader

 

makes all decisions alone, uses coercion and punishment, concerned with tasks, not relationships,

Lacks group support, Useful in crisis

Definition

 

 

Autocratic

Term

Leader

 

Believes individuals are motivated by internal drives and impulses, provides no direction, assumes workers need to be left alone, not very useful

Definition

 

 

Laissez-faire

Term

Leader

 

Believes employees are motivated by external forces, tust nether followers nor self to decide, depend on policies and rules, apply fixed-inflexible rules, impersonal with staff, avoids decision making without guidance by standards and policy of buisness

Definition

 

 

Bureaucratic

Term

Leader

 

Believes individuals are motivated by internal drives and impulses, want active participation in decision making, leader uses participation and majority rule, concerned with human relations and teamwork, staff satisfaction

Definition

 

 

Democratic

Term

 

 

Functional Structure

Definition

 

 

departments by specialty, with similiar tasks being performed by the same group, similiar groups  operating out of the same department, and similiar departments reporting to the same manager. (Coordination across function is poor)

Term

 

 

Service-Line Structure

Definition

 

 

product-line or service-integrated structures(potential for rapid change in an unstable environment(client satisfaction is high)

Term

 

 

Hybrid Structure

Definition

 

 

both self contained units and functional units (conflict between top administration and managers)

Term

 

 

Matrix Structure

Definition

 

 

integrates both product and functional structure into one overlapping structure, different managers are responsible for function and product (weakness is dual authority)

Term

 

 

Parallel Structure

Definition

 

 

Medical staff is separate and autonomous from organization, so two lines of authority (becoming less successful)

Term

 

 

Goal of Staff Development:

Definition

 

 

To enhance staff performance

Term

 

What are the steps to Staff Development?

Definition

 

1.Needs Assessment(for educational program)

2.Planning(establishing objectives,evaluating trends, formulating a means, and coverting to action.

2.  Implementation(bringing together educators, learner, material)

Term

 

 

Staff development methods include:

Definition

 

internal(on the unit)

external(off the unit)

sources

On the Job most widely used

Term

 

 

What is Lewin's theory of Change?

Definition

 

Unfreezing

Moving

Refreezing

Term

 

 

What are the steps in the change process?

Definition

 

Assessment(identify the problem, collect and analyze data)

Planning

Implementation(Methods to change individuals and groups)

Evaluation(evaluate effectiveness and stabilize change)

Term

 

 

What are the six reponses to change as identified by Rodgers?

Definition

knowledge

persuasion

decision

implementation

confirmation

Term

 

What are the nurses roles in initiating change?

Definition

 

combine ideas, energize others, skill in human relations, integrative thinking, sufficient flexibility to modify ideas, confidence, realistic thinking, trust worthinesss, to articulate a vision through insights, to handle resistance

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