Exam #1 Flashcards
What is Emotional Intelligence (EQ)?
Self-mastery or the ability to understand and control what we feel (our emotions) and the way we act (our response to these emotions)
- -The “It” factor, affects how we manage behavior, negotiate complex social situations, and make decisions.
- -most important leadership competency
What are the 4 components of EQ?
Emotional intelligence
Self Awareness
Self Management
Social Awareness
Relationship Management
What is social Awareness?
Social Awareness is our ability to recognize our own emotions and how they affect our:
- -thoughts/behaviors
- -Strengths/weaknesses
- -Self Confidence
What is Self Management?
Self Management is our ability to:
- -control impulsive feelings and behaviors
- -manage our emotions
- -take initiative
- -follow through on commitments
- -adapt to change
What is Social Awareness?
Social Awareness is understanding:
- -emotions, needs, and concerns of others
- -pick up emotional cues
- -feel comfortable socially
- -recognize the power dynamics in an organization
What is relationship Management?
Relationship Management is knowing how to:
- -develop and maintain good relationships
- -communicate clearly
- -inspire and influence others
- -work well in a team
- -manage conflicts
What are the consequences of a lack in emotional intelligence (EQ)?
A lack of emotional intelligence can result in:
- -higher staff turnover
- -reduced engagement
- -poor work relationships
- -unhealthy work environment
What are the 6 suggestions to developing emotional intelligence?
- Seek feedback on your behavior
- evaluate all negative feedback and reactions
- Self-reflect on how you have managed your emotions in highly charged situations
- Assess how you manage your stress level and whether it interferes with relationships
- determine your EQ strengths and weakness and develop a personal action plan
- Do cognitive rehearsals– assess how you respond if you are loosing control of a situation
requires intentionality—stepping back and asking yourself what you would do differently in future situations
What is motivation?
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it
–intrinsic quality
What are the 3 key elements needed to promote motivation?
Autonomy-urge to direct own life, feeling involved and valued
Mastery-getting better and better at something that matters
Purpose-yearning to connect to something larger than ourselves.
What were the 4 suggestions for managers to promote autonomy to staff?
- lead with questions not answers
- engage in dialogue and debate
- conduct autopsies without blame
- make it easier for staff to talk about problems they see and solutions they recommend
What are the 9 things that make good employees quit?
People don’t leave jobs, they leave managers
- They overwork people
- They don’t recognize contributions and reward good work
- They don’t care about their employees
- They don’t honor their commitments
- They hire and promote the wrong people
- They don’t let people pursue their passions
- They fail to develop people’s skills
- They fail to engage their creativity
- They fail to challenge people intellectually
Florence Nightingale (1859)
“Putting the client in the best possible condition of nature to act upon him”
Crimean War- brought about basic concepts on nursing
–nurturing, nutrition, environmental cleanliness, and charting
Infection control, assessment, self care, therapeutic communication, spirituality, recording
Virginia Henderson (1966)
“The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recover that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will, or knowledge.”
**20th century Nightingale; utilized textbook on Nursing Fundamentals
emphasized independence so that recovery would be successful, categorized nursing to pt needs in 14 components similar to Maslow’s, relationship between all needs.
Martha Rogers (1988)
“the process by which this body of knowledge, nursing science, is used for the purpose of assisting human being to achieve maximum health within the potential of each person”
Lillian Wald
development of the Henry Street Settlement: a role model for contemporary community health; bringing healthcare to people
Margret Sanger
Political activist: brought birth control to those who needed/wanted it; leader in child labor laws
Mary Mahoney
1st black women as a nurse in the US.
Mildred Montag
Developed the 1st associate degree program; proposed 2 levels of nursing
Adelaide Nutting
1st graduate of John Hopkins School of Nursing
- superintendent of nursing
- developed the 3 yr, 8 HR/day that became the diploma nursing
- created Dept of Nursing at Columbia University; believed hospitals should not take ownership in education of nurses
Jean Watson
- The theory of caring in nursing
- Caring complements curing
- An environment of caring allows for an individual to decide on how to care for themselves
- caring has no sociocultural borders
Patricia Benner
Novice to expert
Excellence and power in nursing
Levels of learning
Civility
(Nursing eats their young!)
Hildegard Peplau
Mother of Psychiatric nursing
Interpersonal relationship theory
Nurse-client relationship
Listening as a key to care
Ida Jean Orlando
theory of nursing process
Meeting immediate needs
Recognizing subtle clues as a cry for help
How people perceive a situation as it relates to health
Nola Pender
- Health promotion model
- each person has a unique personal experience that influences subsequent actions
- nurse’s influence people
- self initiation is essential to change behavior
Madeleine Leninger
Culture Care theory
Provides culturally congruent nursing care
Culturalogical assessments (demographics, socioeconomic, foods, gender considerations)
Cultural Competency is the outcome of the nurse
Margret Newman
Health as an expanding consciousness
Health of the individuals in the presence of illness or not
People are looking for the meaning of life and we need to assist them
Dorothy Johnson
Behavioral System model
A steady stet is maintained through adjusting and adapting to internal and external forces
Health is stability and balance, nursing is needed when they do not exist
Imogene King
Open system theory
Human beings are open systems that constantly interact with the environment
Everyone brings different values, ideals, and attitudes to every situation
Nurse’s work with individuals to set individual goals
Myra Levine
Conservation model
Wholeness exists when the interaction or constant adaptations to the environment permits the assurance of integrity
Each individual brings a number of adaptions
Betty Neuman
Each individual is a complete system with interrelated parts
Our focus should be on stress and stress reduction
We should maintain a balance between internal and external environments in order to reach harmony
Dorothea Orem
Self care model
Self care comprises those activities performed independently by an individual to promote a d maintain persons’ well being
The nurse then meets the self care needs by acting or doing for; guiding, teaching, supporting, or providing the environment to promote patient’s ability
Sister Callista Roy
Adaptation model
The person is an open adaptive system with input who adapts by processes or control mechanisms
The output can be either adaptive responses or ineffective responses
Nursing activities direct adaptation
Leadership
The ability to influence the behavior of others
Leadership competencies
Diagnose: ability to understand the situation you want to influence
Adapt: Make changes that will close the gap between current and where you want to be
Communicate: if you do not communicate effectively, you will not met your goal
That theories:
Attention: communicate a sense of goal direction
Meaning: create and communicate meaning and purpose
Trust: demonstrate reliability and consistency
Self: know themselves and work within their strengths and weaknesses
Autocratic leadership
Authoritarian- does not recognize others or their creativity
high degree of control
Leader assumes responsibility
Very efficient
Democratic Leadership
Participative: flexible but not efficient, gives people the ability to think and increases motivation
Moderate degree of control
Shared responsibility
Less efficient that authoritarian