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Philosophy

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  • Though process or belief system
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Canadian Healthcare Philosophy

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  • Everyone receives equal care free of charge
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Nursing Philosophy Components

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  • Type of care provided
  • Ethics/morals
  • Interaction with patients
  • Individual values
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Nursing Philosophy Purpose

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  • Collective statement of shared beliefs
  • Congruent with practice setting
  • Meaning & direction to practice
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Importance of Personal Philosophy

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  • Influence over decisions
  • Care choices
  • Personal beliefs
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Intersection of Professional & Personal Values

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  • Individual priorities of care
  • Advocacy in healthcare system (changes)
  • CNO, CNA practice standards
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CNO Standards of Practice

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  • Accountability
  • Continuing competence
  • Ethics
  • Knowledge
  • Knowledge application
  • Leadership
  • Relationships
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Philosophy Components

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  • Critical thinking path
  • Guide actions & decisions
  • Deepens understandings
  • Explore values & beliefs
  • Synthesize knowledge
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Philosophy Use of Metaparadigm

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  • Identify relation of personal values to profession
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Metaparadigm Components

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  • Health
  • Person
  • Environment
  • Nursing
  • Social justice
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Safety Definition

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  • Reduction & mitigation of unsafe acts
  • Use of best practice
  • Lead to optimal patient outcomes
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Types of Safety Incidents

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  • Adverse event
  • Harm
  • Error
  • Near miss
  • Patient safety incident
  • Critical incident
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Causes of Safety Incidents

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  • Human error
  • Busy environments
  • Miss communication
  • High patient count per nurse
  • Attention to detail
  • Systems error
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Blaming

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  • Explanations
  • Make sense of event
  • Attributions
  • Severity of outcome
  • Personal mental biases
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Bias Leading to Blame

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  • Self- serving biases
  • Fundamental attribution error
  • Learned intuition
  • Hindsight bias
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Response to Harm

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  • Shame, blame, retrain
  • Interventions
  • Improve individual performance
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Enhancing Safety

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  • Patient safety culture
  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Safety, risk, and quality improvement
  • Optimize human & system factors
  • Recognize, respond, disclose
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Culture of Safety

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  • Commitment to applying knowledge, skills, attitudes
  • Organizational culture supporting safety
  • Competence, behaviors, attitudes of individuals
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Teamwork

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  • Interprofessional teams
  • Collaborative patient-centred care
  • Shared objectives
  • Clear roles & responsibilities
  • Interdependent decision-making
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Communication

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  • Preventing adverse events
  • Responding to adverse events
  • Legible handwriting
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Quality Improvement

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  • Anticipate, recognize, manage
  • Situations placing patients at risk
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Human & System Factors

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  • Relationship between individual & environment
  • Characteristics to optimize safety
  • Concerns related to human performance/environmental factors
  • Ongoing interaction between human & environment
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Recognize, Respond, Disclose Safety Incidents

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  • Recognize occurrence of adverse event/close call
  • Responding effectively
  • Mitigate harm
  • Ensure disclosure & prevent recurrence
  • Honest, time effective communication
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Adverse Events Response

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  • Document & report all events
  • Including near misses
  • Communicate with healthcare team & management
  • Communicate with patient & family
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Nursing Qualities
- Strength of mindset - Strengths of knowledge & knowing - Strengths of relationships - Strengths of advocacy
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Mindset Strengths
- Mindfulness - Humility - Open-mindedness - Non-judgemental attitude
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Mindfulness
- Being present & aware - Decreases distractions - Increases noticing - Separate personal needs from client needs
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Humility
- Understanding one's strengths & limitations - Learn from others - Share knowledge & expertise - Fosters collaborative partnerships
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Open-Mindedness
- Open to different ideas & opinions - Accepting of differences - Prevents immediate judgement/drawing conclusions
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Non-Judgemental Attitude
- Tolerance for another's beliefs, values, behaviours, perspectives - Respectful of others - Promote trust in relationship
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Knowledge & Knowing Strengths
- Curiosity - Self-reflection
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Curiosity
- Desire for experience & knowledge - Greater discoveries & understanding of client
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Self-Reflection
- Examine personal thoughts, emotions, actions - Increases self-awareness of limitations & biases - Make adjustments to care - Unique care for each situation - Recognize feelings that may interfere with nurse-client relationship
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Strengths of Relationships
- Respect & trust - Empathy - Compassion & kindness
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Respect & Trust
- Promotes autonomy - Increases likelihood for client sharing
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Empathy
- Fills gap between nurse & patient - Gain insight of clients strengths/weakness - Client satisfaction - Decreased stress & anxiety
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Compassion & Kindness
- Fundamental behaviour - Recognize client as human being not disease - Soften impact of negative effects
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Advocacy Strengths
- Courage - Self-efficacy
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Courage
- Standing up for beliefs & fighting for what is right - Empowerment & taking charge
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Self-Efficacy
- Potential to attain desired goal - Empowers achievement of goals & change the future - Can do attitude
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Advocacy Types
- Proactive - Reactive
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Advocacy Threats
- Macrosocial - Microsocial
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Macrosocial Threats
- Health disparity - Hospital environment
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Microsocial Threats
- Patient vulnerability
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Formal Leadership
- Assigned leader position
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Informal Leadership
- Outside scope of formal role - Accepted by others - Perceived to have influence
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Leadership
- Engaging & influencing others - Use of personal traits to influence - Collective efforts to achieve outcomes
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Management
- Ensuring job is completed - Provide resources - Activities to control human & material resources - Achieve outcomes with organizations mission
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Leader Process
- Sets a direction - Develops a vision - Communicates direction & vision to staff
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Manager Duties
- Addresses complex issues - Planning, budgeting - Setting target goals
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Leadership Styles
- Autocratic - Democratic - Laissez-faire
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Autocratic Leadership
- Centralized decision-making - Leader makes decisions & holds power of control - Transactional
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Democratic Leadership
- Participatory - Delegation of authority - Close personal, influential relationships - Use of expert power & power base
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Lassiez-Faire Leadership
- Passive & permissive - Leader defers decision-making
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Transformational Leadership Theory
- Relationship between leader & follower - Inspires & empowers individual - Commitment to organization
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Situational Leadership
- Adapt leadership style to manage specific situation - Flexibility - Identify performance, competence of others - Experience & willingness to take responsibilities
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Authentic Leadership
- Positive, ethical style - High levels of self-awareness - Transparency between actions & values - Growth & improvement focus
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Followership
- Gain experience - Move between roles - First step to competent leadership - Contribute to team - Reflect on expectations in each situations

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