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Leadership Exam Chapters 6-7, 14

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#1 mistake new nurses make?   Failure to respond/react  
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Keys to communication?   patient-centered care, teamwork & collaboration, & safety  
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The person who begins the transfer of information   Sender  
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the process the sender uses to transmit the message (verbal, nonverbal, voice inflection, & body language)   Encoding  
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The information or content   Message  
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The manner in which the message is sent (facial expression, body language)   Sensory Channel  
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The person or persons whom the sender intended to receive the message   Receiver  
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the process of interpreting the message   Decoding  
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Determines whether the message was received as intended   Feedback  
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Fatal flaw is overlooking the feedback. What should be done to avoid this mistake?   clarify the message  
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Conscious method of communication. Includes many different types: all must maintain professional & understandable language, grammar, & clarity   Verbal communication  
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Encompasses behaviors, actions, & facial expressions   Nonverbal communication  
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Good position to hear information clearly   Receiving (the info)  
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Engagement in the conversation, positive body language, facial expressions, & gestures   Attending (be present/engaged)  
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Gaining an understanding of what is being said, & what may not be said   Understanding (clarify if needed)  
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Nonjudgmental manner & being aware if anything may have upset him/her   Responding (don't assume the worst or best)  
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Recalling previous conversations with patient to establish a starting point with re-engaging   Remembering  
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Gender- different styles:   Men more assertive & more verbal, women more collaborative & nonverbal cues & metaphors  
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Personal vs texting:   Generation  
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to whom do you communicate & how? Sensitive to teaching   Culture (& religion)  
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differences to avoid miscommunication   Values & perceptions  
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parameters (be aware of how close you get)   personal space  
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A type of verbal presentation or document intended to share info & which conforms to established professional rules, standards & processes & avoids using slang terminology   Formal  
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Casual form of information sharing typically used in personal conversations w/ friends or family members   Informal  
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Flows quickly & haphazardly at all levels of the organization & becomes more & more distorted as it moves along   Grapevine  
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to convey the same message across the entire system   Organizational communication  
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Fosters patient-centered care & results in quality outcomes. Refers to workers across healthcare professionals to cooperate, collaborate, communicate, & integrate care in teams to ensure that care is continuous & reliable   Interpersonal communication  
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Enhancing communication among health-care professionals producing quality outcomes, increasing patient satisfaction, reducing error rates & improving patient safety   Intraprofessional communication  
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Inter/intra =   similar  
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Intra =   smaller unit  
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Inter =   incorporates more (respiratory, etc.)  
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Evidence-based teamwork system developed by the U.S. Department of Defense in collaboration w/ the Agency of Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ).   Team Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance & Patient Safety (Team STEPPS)  
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TeamSTEPPS aim:   to optimize patient safety outcomes by improving communication  
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Nurse to voice concern at least twice to receive acknowledgement from another team member. Standard of care not followed   Two-challenge rule  
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Simultaneously informs team members of important information & assigns tasks during a critical event or situation (rapid response: calling out meds, dose, route of medications given)   Call out  
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Use closed-looped communications & verify the information that is being received is correct   Check-back  
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C.U.S =   Concerned, Uncomfortable, Safety issue  
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SBAR =   Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation  
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These transactions in care occur when a patient is transferred from one unit to another   Handover  
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The institute for Patient-And-Family-Centered Care identified 4 concepts that apply during nurse-to-nurse (intra) handovers   Respect & dignity, information sharing, participation (being present)  
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an injury to a patient caused by medical management rather than the patient's underlying condition is called   adverse event or a patient safety event  
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a blame-free environment in which staff members feel comfortable reporting errors & near misses   A culture of safety  
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when an action is not taken or omitted, such as when a nurse does not assess a patient after surgery or does not administer a medication   Error of omission  
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a culture that is fair to those who make an error   just culture  
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the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim   Medical error  
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a potential error that was discovered before it was carried out   near miss  
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indicators that reflect elements of patient care that are directly impacted by the quality & quantity of nursing care   Nursing-sensitive quality indicators  
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relate to the results of nursing care & include changes in a patient's health status related to nursing care, such as pressure ulcers & patient falls. Improve when there is greater quality/quantity of nursing care   Outcome indicators  
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resembles a bar chart- Designed to look at various causes of a specific problem. A tool to help determine the small portion of causes that account for a large amount of the variance in a process   Pareto Chart  
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Promotes continuous QI (quality improvement); cycle is used to identify issues & improve care   Plan-do-study-act (PDSA) cycle  
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a formalized investigation & problem-solving approach focused on identifying & understanding the underlying causes of an event as well as potential events that were intercepted   root cause analysis (RCA)  
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a patient safety event that results in any of the following: death, permanent harm, & severe temporary harm & intervention required to sustain life; signals the need for immediate investigation & response   Sentinel event  
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a rigorous method that encompasses 5 steps: define, measure, analyze, improve, & control. Used in QI to define the # of acceptable errors produced by a process. Involves improving, designing, & monitoring processes to minimize or reduce waste   Six Sigma Model "don't mess around in clinical"  
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focuses on unsafe acts of health-care professionals & errors as the result of human behaviors, such as inattention, forgetfulness, negligence, & incompetence (you made the mistake)   Human errors: personal approach  
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acknowledges that errors happen because humans are not perfect (what went wrong?)   human errors: systems approach  
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what accounts for most preventable adverse events?   Unintentional Human Errors & System Errors  
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What should a nurse do if their patient has never taken a certain medication before?   Stop & clarify before giving it  
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Stage one of creating a culture of safety:   safety management is based on rules & regulations  
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Stage 2 of creating a culture of safety:   Good safety performance becomes an organizational goal  
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stage 3 of creating a culture of safety:   safety performance is seen as dynamic & continuously improving  
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the process of developing, agreeing on & implementing uniform criteria, methods, processes, designs, or practices that can improve patient safety & quality care   Standardization  
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Mission to make health care safer, higher quality, more accessible, equitable, & affordable   Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality  
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1994: launched an initiative to investigate the impact of health-care restructuring on the safety & quality of patient care & the nursing profession   American Nurses Association  
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A nonprofit organization established in 1999N in response to the recommendations from the Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection & Quality in the Health Care Industry   National Quality Forum (NQF)  
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member states agreed on a resolution on patient safety in 2002 & recognized patient safety as a global health-care issue in 2004   World Health Organization (WHO)  
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accredits & certifies approximately 20,000 health-care organizations in the U.S. based on established standards   The Joint Commission (TJC)  
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collaborates with the health-care improvement community to remove improvement roadblocks & launch innovations that improve patient care   Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI)  
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relate to the care environment & include staffing levels, hours of nursing care per patient day, nursing skill levels, & education of staff   Structure indicators  
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relate to how nursing care is provided & include elements falling under the nursing process (assessment, diagnosis, planning, intervention, & evaluation of nursing care) & job satisfaction   Process indicators  
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NQF identifies the following 3 goals as critical in making health care safer for Americans:   reduce preventable hospital admissions & readmissions; reduce the incidence of adverse health-care-associated conditions; reduce harm from inappropriate or unnecessary care  
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Goal is to reduce morbidity & mortality significantly in the American health-care system   1,000 Lives Campaign  
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defines patient safety as "the absence of preventable harm to a patient during the process of health care"   World Health Organizations  
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developed between 2007 & 2014 to address the following issues: medication accuracy at transitions of care; correct procedure at the correct body site   5 standard operating protocols  
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any quality management program that addresses all areas of an organization, emphasizes customer satisfaction, & uses continuous improvement methods & tools   Total Quality Management (TQM)  
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All QI programs incorporate 4 key principles:   QI works as systems & processes; there is a focus on patients; there is a focus on being part of the team; there is a focus on the use of data  
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First part of the IHI Model of Improvement:   fundamental questions  
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2nd part of the IHI Model of Improvement:   Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA)  
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the Pareto chart is a tool to help determine the "small portion of causes that amount for a large amount of the variance" in a process, according to what?   80/20 principle  
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A dynamic process that results in altering or making something different   Change  
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purposeful, calculated, & collaborative, & it includes the deliberate application of change theories   Planned change  
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occurs when the need for change is sudden & necessary to manage a crisis (ex: car breaks down --> buy a new one)   Unplanned change  
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successful leaders & managers manage unplanned change through:   effective communication, adaptability, coordination, & the ability to remain grounded  
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the process of creating something new after thoughtful analysis of a phenomenon (ex: studying)   Innovation  
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most widely used 3 step model:   Lewin's force-field model (1951)  
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according to Lewin, change results from what 2 fields or environmental forces?   driving forces (helping) that attempt to facilitate the change & move it forward; restraining forces (hindering) that attempt to impede change & maintain the status quo (ex: self doubt, stress)  
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Lewin's force-field model (1951) involves what 3 stages?   Unfreezing stage, Moving stage, & Refreezing stage  
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stage that determines change is needed:   Unfreezing stage  
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stage that begins initiation of the desired change:   Moving stage  
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stage that involves stabilizing the change & achieving equilibrium:   Refreezing stage  
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cyclical rather than linear & require organizations to react with speed & flexibility   Emerging theories  
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The newer emerging change theories proved another perspective from which to view change & innovation based on what?   complexity science  
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recognizes that the world is a continual motion & that a change in one area can result in numerous changes in other areas   complexity science  
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nonlinear & unpredictable, & it explains why a small change in one area can have a large affect across an organization. Known as the "butterfly effect"; ex: shortage of nurses leads to increased errors & burnout   Chaos theory  
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Senge (1990): to excel, future organization will need to "discover how to tap people's commitment & capacity to learn at all levels in an organization"   Learning Organization Theory  
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organization where people continually expand their capacity to create results they truly desire, where new & expansive patterns of thinking r nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, & where people are continually learning how to learn together   Learning Organization  
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4 competencies for facilitating change:   personal knowledge of & accountability; understanding the essence of change; the ability to collaborate & fully engage team members; competence in embracing vulnerability & risk taking  
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One who leads & manages the change process, including management of group dynamics, resistance to change, continuous communication, & the momentum toward the desired outcome. "cheerleader"   change agent  
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how threatened a person feels by change   resistance  
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forces on the relationship needs of staff members, uses peer pressure, & relies on staff members' desires to have satisfactory work relationships   Normative-reeducative strategy  
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assumes that staff members are essentially self-interested & providing info & education will assist staff in changing behavior & adopting the change or innovation   empirical-rational strategy  
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based on power & authority & assumes that staff will respond to authority & threats of job loss. This strategy is used when resistance is expected. Results in rapid change & is often perceived by staff as they must accept the change or find new work   power-coercive strategy  
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change initiative typically fail due to:   poor coordination, ineffective communication, lack of staff cooperation  
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a state of disharmony among people & occurs when people have differing views   conflict  
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a little conflict can result in what?   organizational growth  
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internal conflict, or a conflict coming from within a person   Intrapersonal conflict  
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a disagreement between or among 2 or more people   interpersonal conflict  
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occurs between groups of people (ER staff vs ICU staff)   intergroup conflict  
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disagreement between staff & organizational policies & procedures, standards, or changes being made (worker bee against management)   organizational conflict  
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withdrawing or hiding from conflict. Postpones conflict. Not resolved.   Avoiding  
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sacrificing one's own needs or goals & trying to satisfy another's desires, needs, or goals. Does not resolve conflict.   accommodating  
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pursue own needs, desires, or goals at the expense of others. Power driven & can result in aggression.   competing  
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effecting conflict resolution. Everyone gives something up & everyone gets something they want in return. Must be on an even playing field.   Compromising  
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best strategy. Shared goals, commitment to working together. Time consuming, best chance for resolution   collaborating  
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remind respect & focus on the issue & not the other person   mutual respect  
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differentiate between what they need & what they want   needs vs wants  
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understanding each other & hearing the other person's position   compassion & empathy  
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remind those involved to focus on "I" statements & avoiding using "you" statements & avoid blaming   staying in the "I"  
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which term describes the sound, timely, smooth, unfragmented, & seamless transmission...   continuity of care  
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which action most likely to promote continuity of care?   referring client to home health visits...  
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which is not a breach in patient health info confidentiality?   charge nurse discusses patient's condition during shift report  
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Celebrity is patient, what actions by other nurse violates patient's privacy? (SATA)   Takes photo when walking past patient's room, using photo taken & client's name to enhance hospital image, unassigned nurse goes through patient's chart  
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which of the following is a primary task to have an effective control system?   identify the values of the department, improving safety precautions within the workplace  
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