Transition To The Registered Nurse Professional Role - Leadership

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Situational

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Considers the leader's style, the work group's maturity, and the situation at hand to form a comprehensive approach to management style. Basis of leadership is response of leaders to the situation.

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Transformational

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Leadership style which can create revolutionary change by inspiring and motivating others.

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Transactional

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Examines leadership in terms of striking a bargain in which there is a mutual exchange between leaders and followers of benefits for work. Leader diagnoses problems and facilitates worker's motivation and performance.

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Democratic

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Participative leadership style where decisions and activities are shared. Decision making input is encouraged.

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Autocratic

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Directive leadership involves the leader taking complete control over the decisions and actions of the group.

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Laissez-Faire

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Nondirective leadership where the leader relinquishes power to the group, encouraging independent activity by group members. Least amount of structure.

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Quantum

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Leadership that moves beyond the traditional modes. It was spawned by the impact of the information age on work and the worker.

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1. Unfreezing - the need for change is recognized, 2. Moving - change is initiated after careful planning, 3. Refreezing - change becomes operational

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What are the three stages in Lewin's Theory of Change?

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Case Method

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A model of care in which one nurse provides total care for a patient during an entire work period.

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Primary Nursing

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A nurse is accountable for planning, evaluating, and directing care of a patient 24 hours a day throughout the patient's stay. A method of providing comprehensive, individualized and consistent, but expensive care.

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Team Nursing

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RN and other caregivers provide care to a designated group of patients on a given shift. Modified the depersonalized approach of functional nursing and focused on individual care.

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Functional Nursing

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Nurses and other staff are assigned to specific tasks for a group of patients. Specialization increases efficiency but results in impersonal care. Assembly line.

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Case Management

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One nurse is responsible for overseeing the quality and financial outcomes of patient care. The nurse works collegially with physicians, caregivers, and payers to manage patients along an agreed-upon clinical pathway.

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Partnership Model

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Patient care is provided to a group of patients by an RN and either an LPN or UAP. RN / LPN - patient care is shared and RN is responsible for planning and directing care. RN / UAP - UAP does non-nursing tasks only.

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Differentiated Practice

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A model of nursing care that recognizes the difference in the level of education and competency of each RN. Differentiation is based on education, position, and clinical expertise.