General Flashcards
Autonomy
Right to choose and freedom to make decision for oneself, accomplished by providing information and supporting patients choices
Veracity
Telling the truth completely
Nonmaleficence
Do no harm
Beneficence
Action promotes good
Coercive power
Derives from fear and the ability to punish. A leader uses power to influence staff in order to achieve goals
Reward power
Ability to provide favors, promise money or other benefits. Managers reward staff with promotions
Expert power
Derives from the knowledge and skills that one has developed; a nurse instructing a client about how to manage diabetes
Referent power
The desire of a follower to be like the leader
Normative-reeducative strategies
Include the empirical-rational idea that people are intelligent and rational; but add to this the importance of attitudes and values; in addition to giving info, attention is paid to attitudes, values, skills and relationships; considerable focus is on individuals as the basic unit of the social organization
Empirical-rational strategies
Idea that people are rational and will act in ways that they intellectually understand will be in their own best interest
Power-coercive strategies
Use of power to cause change, most often in the direction of having less powerful people conform to plans and directives of the more powerful. It may also go in the opposite direction such as when employees strike and thereby exert their own power to coerce change.
Gatekeeper
Group maintenance role (vs task role) keeps comm channels open and thus regulating comm within the group
Primary nursing
One RN is responsible for a patients total care throughout the hospitalization. Develops plan of care and manages associate RNs and other staff who provide care to the pt.
Functional nursing
Staff members perform a specific task for a large group of patients. I.e. Med nurse and tx nurse. Functional model is efficient and economical but care is fragmented.
Team nursing
RN leader is responsible for coordinating a group of licensed and unlicensed personnel to provide pt care. Team- RN, LVN, NA
