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36 Cards in this Set
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Planning
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deciding in advance what to do; who is to do it; and how, when, and where it is to be done.
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Reactive Planning
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occurs after a problem exists. Problems are dealt with separately without integration with the whole organization. (Hasty decisions are made).
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Inactivism
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seek the status quo and they spend their energy preventing change and maintaining conformity. Change occurs slowly.
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Preactivism
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utilize technology to accelerate change and are future oriented.(unsatisfied with past and present).
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Interactive or Proactive planning
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planners who consider the past, present and future and attempt to plan the future of their organization rather than react to it.
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Forecasting
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involves trying to estimate how a condition will be in the future.
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Long range or strategic plans
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organization plans that involve a long period usually 3-10 years.
sidenote: on a unit 6 months or longer is considered long range. |
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SWOT analysis
aka TOWS analysis |
a tool that assists in strategic planning- identifies Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, & Threats.
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Marketing Teacher
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provides simple rules that must be followed for SWOT analysis pg. 144 display 7.3
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Balanced scorecard
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a tool that is highly assistive in strategic planning-translates an org.'s strategic vision into clear and realistic objectives.
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Harvard Business Review
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A resource to learn about business and leadership.
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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)
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pretty straight forward ha! :)
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Electronic Health Records
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having complete, accurate, and timely info. that moves with the pt.
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Health Care Info. exchange and Interoperability
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a longitudinal medical record with full info. about each pt.
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Nursebots
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the use of prototype nurse robots that will serve as an adjunct to scarce human resources in the provision of health care.
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Biometrics
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the science of identifying people through physical characteristics such as fingerprints, handprints, retinal scans, voice recognition.
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Expert Patient
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The pt. has access to health care information due to technology (Dr.- pt. relationship will change)
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Vision statements
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used to describe future goals or aims of an organization. (the blueprint).
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Mission statements
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a brief statement identifying the reason that an org. exists.
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Philosophy
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the purpose or mission statement and delineates the set of values and beliefs that guide all a cations of the org.
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Organizational philosophy
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the basis for developing nursing philosophies at the unit level for nursing service as a whole.
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Nursing service philosophy
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should address fundamental beliefs about nursing and nursing care, the quality, quantity, scope of nursing services, and how nurses will specifically meet org. goals.
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Unit Philosophy
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specifies how nursing care provided on the unit will correspond with nursing service and org. goals.
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Values
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beliefs that guide behavior.
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True Value
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It must be freely chosen from among alternatives only after due reflection, must be prized and cherished, consciously and consistently repeated, and positively affirmed and enacted.
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Value Indicator
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If a value doesn't meet all 4 criteria (for a true value) it is considered this. It doesn't require action like a true value does.
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Goal
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the desired result toward which effort is directed; it is the aim of the philosophy.
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Objectives
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more specific and measurable then goals b/c they identify how and when the goal is to be accomplished.
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Process objectives
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written in terms of the method to be used.
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Result-focused objectives
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specify the desired outcome. (not the process).
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Policies
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plans reduced to statements or instructions that direct org. in their decision making.
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Implied policies
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neither written or expressed verbally, usually developed over time and follow a precedent. (ex. on pg 159).
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Expressed policies
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delineated verbally or in writing. (written policies).
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nursing policy & procedure committees
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centralized with one person, or small group managing the policy and procedure process within an institution.
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Procedures
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plans that establish customary or acceptable ways of accomplishing a specific task and delineate a sequence of steps of required action.
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Rules
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describe situations that allow only one choice or action.
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