NUR 310 - Leadership, Management, Power and Stress in
Nursing Practice Questions With Complete Solutions
Excellence in Clinical Practice Requires: leadership,
empowerment, power
Advocacy Correct Answer *Support or defends someone or
something and recommends or pleads in another's behalf...and
works to change the power structure so that a situation will be
improved.
Advocacy Correct Answer Nurses may need to cut through
bureaucracy! Know when it is safe and appropriate to bend the
rules! Policies can be stretched or broken
Advocacy Correct Answer Why? Healthcare rules and
efficiency may infringe upon pt's safety and rights
1. Unsafe pt load
2. Pt's discharged too early
3. Changes to a tx plan
4. Pts wishes not being followed
5. Restricted visiting hours
Advocacy Power Correct Answer *Removes obstacles or
stands alongside and enables.
*Emphasizes strengths
As Seen on TV: Discuss Shows Portrayal of Nurses Correct
Answer *Red Band Society - (Fox TV series)
*Octavia Spencer as Dena Jackson, Pediatric Head Nurse
*Dr. Ken (ABC sitcom)
, *Nurse Jackie (Showtime series)
*ER
*Scrubs - TV Series (2001-2010)
*"HawthoRNe" (Jada Pinkett Smith)
*MASH - Military nurses
*Julia (Diahann Carroll) - 1968-1971
Caring for the Profession
Image of Nursing Correct Answer Image is defined:
*The idea that people have about
someone or something
*Nurses are at the top of the 2020 Gallup
#1 Most Honest and Ethical Profession 2020
Code of Ethics Provision 5: Personal Health, Safety and
Wellbeing Correct Answer Nurses must take care of
themselves first. By doing so, they will be better able to
continue to deal w/ the stress of the work environment and
advocate for the needs of their cts
Nurses Must Employ Self-Care in Practice
*Can't care for others if you don't care for your self!
*Assessment: Take the Holmes-Rahe Life Stress Inventory
Compassion Fatigue Correct Answer *Loss of the caring
attitude from putting others needs, spouses, children, pts
families above our own "competing demands"
*Feelings of apathy, loss of energy, indifference, disinterest,
negative feelings, prone to accidents, poor judgement
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