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Week 1: Chapter 9
What is the definition of time management and what is included in someone who optimizes their time management?
What are the major symptoms related to poor time management?
What are the three basic evaluation steps into planning so that reprioritization can occur?
Identify 5 relevant interventions that can be taken to mitigate internal/external time-wasting activities?
Identify daily planning actions that can be taken to maximize time management?
Describe the priority setting in clinical settings where decisions need to be made for patient care (As in ATI)
Name three ways nurses establish priorities in nursing practice (as in ATI)
Define and describe Time Management as a cyclic process
Week 1: Chapter 20
Identify specific strategies for successful delegation
What does the NPA (Nurse practice act) contain as the essential elements regarding delegation (as in ATI)
Describe the 5 rights of delegation—name them and define them
Provide an example of each of the 5 rights of delegation
Describe the criteria for delegation to an unlicensed assisted personnel (UAP)
Name 5 tasks that are generally considered appropriate for delegation to UAPs
Describe the reasons nurses will underdelegate tasks.
Describe the situations in which nurses will overdelegate tasks
Draw the decision tree created by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) that is used to determine appropriate tasks for UAPs—(apply the example of obtaining a blood sugar value to this model to determine if that would be an appropriate task to delegate)
Name the key differences between what roles and responsibilities exist for RNs and contrast that with those of LPNs
Week 2: What you should know # 3Chapter 1
Define decision making and problem-solving
Define the qualities that define someone who is a good decision-maker
Define clinical reasoning and critical thinking—compare and contrast
Define the characteristics of critical thinking
Identify a poor decision you made because of faulty data gathering?
What are the frequent errors that are made in decision making?
Evidence-based practice for nurses. What are the strategies for this to be successful?
Define the process for successful decision-making progress
Nursing process for problem-solving—define the steps
Chapter 2
Define the components of the management process and provide an example of each
Identify the similarities and differences between leadership and management. Why do we make these distinctions?
Define: Autocratic style of leadership—when is this style useful in nursing?
Define: Democratic style of leadership—when is this style best used in nursing?
Define: Laissez-faire style of leadership—when is this style best utilized in nursing?
Name 5 characteristics of leaders—why are these important to best functioning of nursing units?
Define and differentiate between these different types of leaders: transformational, transactional, and authentic leadership
Week 2: What you should know # 4Chapter 3
Name factors that affect healthcare trends, calling on our leaders to be more savvy in their development.
What is the purpose of Jim Collins’ (Good to Great) Level 5 leadership distinctions? What type of leaders do the best organizations possess?
What is servant leadership? Why would this be a good model to have in a healthcare setting?
Define the qualities of servant leadership
Define human capital and social capital and relate its importance to healthcare leaders
Define emotional intelligence and relate its importance to nurse development/nursing care
What are the five components of emotional intelligence?
Define emotional literacy and give an example of a workplace situation where this would be useful.
Define authentic leadership and discuss how it is different from transformational leadership
How does one assess the trustworthiness of an authentic leader?
Define quantum leadership and how it builds upon transformational leadership.
