Nursing Leadership, Management, and Professional Advocacy

A set of practice flashcards covering leadership styles, delegation, nurse advocacy, union history, and workplace safety based on the provided lecture notes.

Democratic leader

A leader who involves team members in the decision-making process and encourages the sharing of ideas to promote collaboration, empowerment, flexibility, and productivity.

Laissez-faire

A hands-off leadership style that gives employees freedom to complete work with minimal supervision, avoids micromanagement, and provides support only when needed.

Autocratic leadership

A leadership style appropriate for emergencies or environments with inexperienced or low-skilled workers where directive control is necessary.

Effective Leadership Qualities

Attributes including strong communication, critical thinking, empathy, emotional intelligence, mentorship, collaboration, delegation, and adaptability.

Effective followership

The behavior of active, engaged, and responsible individuals who demonstrate critical thinking, loyalty, competence, self-discipline, and accountability to support their leaders.

Right task

The first of the 5 rights of delegation, ensuring the activity is appropriate for delegation.

Right circumstances

The second of the 5 rights of delegation, considering the setting and available resources.

Right person

The third of the 5 rights of delegation, ensuring the right person is delegating the right task to the right person to be performed on the right patient.

Right direction/communication

The fourth of the 5 rights of delegation, providing a clear and concise description of the task, including its objective, limits, and expectations.

Right supervision

The fifth of the 5 rights of delegation, involving appropriate monitoring, evaluation, intervention as needed, and feedback.

Victims

Individuals responding to change who feel helpless, overwhelmed, powerless, or panicky, and often resort to blaming others or feeling bitter.

Survivors

Individuals who are skeptical and resistant to change, often sitting on the fence or waiting for others to act while clinging to what they already have.

Navigators

Proactive and hopeful individuals who seek to influence change, maintain a positive outlook, and believe they can control the change process.

Nursing organizations

Entities that advance the profession through advocacy, professional development, setting standards, providing research, and offering financial assistance to nurses.

Union Membership Advantages

Benefits including higher wages, improved working conditions, job security, legal representation, consistent standards, and safer nurse-to-patient ratios.

Union Membership Disadvantages

Drawbacks such as membership dues, the potential for strikes, seniority rules, the protection of underperforming nurses, and limited flexibility.

Work-related Challenges for Nurses

Issues including physical strain from lifting pt, exposure to hazards/illness, long and demanding shifts (24/7), witnessing pt suffering/loss, and staff shortages.

Effects of Bullying and Incivility

Factors leading to stress, anxiety, sleep issues, CV disease, low job satisfaction, and high turnover rates among nursing staff.

Aggression and threats

A behavioral change indicating potential employee violence, characterized by verbal/physical hostility, rage, slamming doors, or persistent complaining.

Sudden and dramatic changes in behavior

A red flag for potential violence including deteriorating job performance, drop in productivity, mood swings, substance use, and social withdrawal.

Fascination with weapons or violence

A behavioral indicator of potential violence where an individual talks about violent topics, carries a concealed weapon, or expresses a desire for something bad to happen.

American Nurses Association (ANA) 19416

The year the ANA officially endorsed collective bargaining to improve economic welfare, securing the 40 hour work week and health insurance.

Taft-Hartley Act

A 1950s law that caused the nurse unionization movement to stall due to early ANA no-strike policies.

1974 Healthcare Amendments to the NLRA

Legislation that revoked the Taft-Hartley law and brought nurses in private, non-profit practice under federal labor law.

United American Nurses (UAN)

An organization created in the 1990s to provide a stronger voice for union nurses.

National Nurses United (2009)

Formed by the merger of UAN with other states, it is the largest RN union in the US.

Conditions favoring unionization

Factors such as unsafe staffing levels, mandatory OT, excessive workload, inadequate wages, and feeling powerless or dismissed by management.