Nursing Management 2 Flashcards
individuals who take risks, attempt to achieve shared goals, and inspire others to action
Leaders
impact depends on the ability to influence people, not the ability to command, coerce, or manipulate
Leadership
involved in the process of leading and directing all parts of an organization, through the deployment and manipulation of resources
Managers
is the act, manner, or practice of managing, handling, supervision, or control
Managing
Patient Care Modalities: Also known as Total Patient Care Approach, it corresponds to a situation where a single nurse assumes full responsibility for delivering care to a group of patients during a shift
Case Method
Patient Care Modalities: also known as relationship-based practice, and this model focuses on keeping the nurse at bedside, actively involved in patient care.
Primary Nursing
Patient Care Modalities: In this model, one primary nurse is responsible for managing the client’s care while in the hospital, from admission to discharge
Primary Nursing
Patient Care Modalities: involves pairing nurses who work as a team to deliver patient care
Team Nursing
Patient Care Modalities: This model utilizes the diversity of skills, education, and qualification level of the entire staff, and team members work collaboratively and share responsibility.
Team Nursing
Patient Care Modalities: also known as task nursing, focuses on the distribution of work based on the performance of tasks and procedures, where the target of the action is not the patient but rather the task
Functional Nursing
Patient Care Modalities: “Care through others.”
Functional Nursing
Patient Care Modalities: In this model a patient care unit is divided into geographic modules with an RN as team leader. The same team of caregivers is regularly assigned to the modules.
Modular Nursing
Patient Care Modalities: The team will include RNs and will also include LPNs and nursing assistants.
Modular Nursing
Patient Care Modalities: focuses on the administrative issues of health care, rather than the actual
delivery of health care
Nursing Case Management
Patient Care Modalities: Uses critical pathways and multidisciplinary action plans (MAPS) to plan patient care (combined critical pathways and nursing care plan)
Nursing Case Management
Patient Care Modalities: Requires extensive knowledge and experience and should be reserved for the advanced practice nurse or RN with advanced training
Nursing Case Management
Patient Care Modalities: Innovation in nursing ranges from impromptu solutions for immediate problems to long-term studies and sophisticated technology designed to improve healthcare delivery and patient
outcomes
Innovative/Contemporary Method
Patient Care Modalities: Newest approaches to organizing patient care to foster patient safety and quality outcomes
Innovative Contemporary Method
The process of establishing formal authority and
involves setting up the organizational structure
through identification of groupings, roles and
relationships, determining the staff needed by
developing and maintaining staffing patterns and
distributing them in the various areas as needed
Organizing
Includes developing job descriptions by defining
the qualifications and functions of personne
Organizing
Organizational Structure: Managerial authority, responsibility and accountability is clearly defined.
Formal Structure
Organizational Structure: Roles and functions are outlines, people have specific task to perform, and rank and hierarchy are apparent
Formal Structure
Organizational Structure: The channel that fills in the gaps with connections and relationships that illustrate how employees network with one another to get the work done (Education Portal, 2003-2013).
Informal Structure
Organizational Structure: Typically centered on camaraderie and often produce direct response from individuals, saving people’s time and effort.
Infromal Structure
Organizational Structure: Useful when the formal structure becomes non-effective.
Informal Structure
