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Concepts Unit 2
leadership
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Nursing
Undergraduate 2
09/20/2013

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Term
Transformational Leader
Definition
  • change agent
  • courageous
  • belief in people
  • value driven
  • lifelong learner
  • ability to with complexity, ambiguity, uncertainty
  • visionary
  • can be demonstrated by anyone not just leaders
  • can motivate higher levels of motivation
  • uses vision to create changes
  • used to measure leadership behavior among nurse exectutives and managers
Term
Obstacles to Delegation
Definition
  • fear of being disliked
  • fear of making a mistake
  • inability to decide of what to delegate and to whom
  • inadequate knowledge of delegation process
  • poor communication skills
  • lack of confidence
  • lack of administrative support
  • tending to isolate oneself and complete tasks alone
  • difficulty to delgate to those who were once peers
  • think they are the only one that can do the job correctly
  • inability to prioritze Maslows Heirarchy of needs
  • inability to develop relationships with the staff
  • lack knowledge of staff capabilities
Term
Transactional Leadership
Definition
  • traditional leader that is concerned with the day to day operations
Term
Charismatic Leadership
Definition
  • has an inspirational quality promotoing emotional connection in followers
  • display slef confidence
  • display strength in convictions
  • communicate high expectations and confidence in others
  • described as emerging during a crisis
  • communicte vision
  • use personal power
  • use unconventional strategies
  • belief that these leaders are so strong they seem to take no a supernatural sense and are worshipped as if superhuman
  • examples are: Florence Nightingale, Martin Luther King Jr.
  • they seem to have a special quality that others do not
Term
Transformational Leadership
Definition
  • committed to a vision that empowers others
  • motivate others by behaving in accordance with values
  • provde a vision that reflects mutual values
  • empower others to contribute
  • a leader who "commits people to action, who converts followers to leaders, and leaders into agents of change"
  • identify themselves as change agents,
  • courageous
  • believe in people
  • value driven
  • lifelong learners
  • ability to deal with comlexity, ambuguity, and uncertainty
  • both inspiration and empowerment the lead to commitment beyond self interest, vision and action to create a change
  • basis for nurse administration, executives and managers
Term
Total Patient Care
Definition
  • nurse is responsible for the total care of the patient's assigned during the shift
  • RN may delegate care to LPN or aid
  • allows nurse to form a relationship of trust with their patient
  • best used for more critical patient's
  • less beneficial for a high level of nursing hours to be delivered to patient's with lower acuity
Term
Functional Nursing
Definition
  • divides the nursing work into functional duties
  • dities assigned to team members
  • each care provider is responsible to specific duties and tasks
  • best used when care needs to be delivered to a large amount of patient's
  • works best with a large number of lower skilled nursing staff and less RN's
Term
Team Nursing
Definition
  • assigns staff to teams
  • teams are responsible for a group of patient's
  • a unit may be divided into 2 teams
  • teams are led by an RN
  • team leader supervises all care provided by those on their team
  • care is divided into the simplest components and assigned to appropriate care provider
  • this type of care requires the RN to have very good delegation and supervision skills

 

Term
Modular nursing
Definition
  • a type of team nursing that divides geographic space into modules of patient's
  • with each patient module the team is led by an RN
  • teams are often made up of one RN one LPN and one nursing assistant
  • requires RN to have very good delegation and supervision skills
Term
Primary Nursing
Definition
  • a delivery model that clearly describes the respinsibility and accountability of the RN
  • designates the RN as the primary provider of care to patients
  • patients arenassigned a primary nurse who is resonsible for developing patient's plan of care
  • plan of care is then carried our by other nurses that are caring for the patient
  • nurses and patient's are matched according to needs and abilities
  • several associate nurses are assigned to the patient to care for them when the nurse to pateint ratios are high enough to enusre there is enough nursing time available to meet the patient needs
  • may work wellin smaller hospital that doesn't take mant patients
Term
Patient Centered Care
Definition
  • designed to focus on the patient needs rather than staff needs
  • highest evolution of this model is when all patient needs are brought to the patient area including radiology and pharmacy services
  • staffing based on patient needs
  • an effort to have the right person doing the right thing
  • care teams are established for a group of patients
  • staff kept close to patient's in a centralized work station
  • would work best in a hospital where patient care is specified to a specific are such as a rehab unit
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