Study Guide 4 Flashcards
What is an informal leader and give an example?
A competent staff nurse.
What is the function of a nurse manager?
Determines employees schedules
What does the use of “I” message by a nurse mean they have developed.
Be assertive
What will happen if a nurse gets in a power struggle with an autocratic leader?
Your individual needs will be met
What often is the end result of a laissez-faire leader?
High level of dissatisfaction due to lack of guidance, caring and instructions. Usually out of synchronizing with the rest of the organization.
Which historical change has had the most impact on increasing the managers role of LPN’s?
Clinton administration healthcare reform
Which type of leadership style do most people prefer initially?
Multicratic or participative
What type of leadership do most people try to avoid?
Laissez-Faire
What is the primary origin of personal scripts that guide a nurses action?
Lifetime of learning
What is the difference between a formal and informal nursing leader.
Formal has been hired into a position of power
What type of leadership style would be most effective for the nurse to assume during CPR.
Autocratic
Staff nurses consider their manager effective when they have which skills?
Interpersonal relationship skills, understanding of the organization and how it works, ability to establish goals and objectives.
What type of leadership positions can an LVN potentially obtain?
Director of nursing for long term facilities
Charge nurse of long term care units and staff educator at the long term care facility
Who historically are viewed as nursing leaders and managers?
Florence Nightingale
Lillian D. Wald
Mary Brewster
How would you best describe honest conversation?
Non verbal communication
What type of communication is often hard for nurses?
Assertive Communication
What type of skills is it necessary to develop in nursing?
Assertiveness
What do passive communication result in?
Failure to move up in the Maslow’s Hierarchy
How is passive aggressive behavior demonstrated?
Gossips about other people, constantly complains during shift report, complains to everyone except the right person.
What action is critical to communication?
Listening carefully to your staff member as he or she shares a problem
What are some forms of communication that are used by the LVN?
Charting on the nurses notes, reading the patients charts, taking notes during a staff meeting.
What is one of the strongest forms of communication a student can have in any setting?
Listening to
When does communication occur?
Both sender and the receiver have understood the meaning of communication?
What is necessary when the LVN student communicates with a patient and thier family in the clinical setting?
Quite and Gentle
