Kent State Nursing Leadership Exam 1 Questions and Answers
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Kent State Nursing Leadership Exam 1 Questions and Answers
who specifies what can be delegated - Answer-nurse practice act, regulatory agency guidelines, and institutional policies
what aspects of nursing cannot be delegated - Answer-- assessments
- nursing diagnosis
- developing and updatin...
Kent State Nursing Leadership Exam
1 Questions and Answers
who specifies what can be delegated - Answer-nurse practice act, regulatory agency
guidelines, and institutional policies
what aspects of nursing cannot be delegated - Answer-- assessments
- nursing diagnosis
- developing and updating plan of care
- evaluating patients progress
-communication with health care providers
-orders
-patient or family teaching
-patient status and triage
who can an RN delegate to - Answer-other RN's, LPN's, and UAP
who can LPN's delegate to - Answer-other LPNs and UAPs
what is an LPN - Answer-- can perform all UAP tasks as well as monitor patients health
status, updating initial assessments performed by RN, and reinforce teaching
What is a UAP - Answer-- tech or CNA
- not licensed and doesn't use nursing judgement
what are the five rights of delegation - Answer-1. Right Task
2. Right Circumstances
3. Right Person
4. Right Direction/Communication
5. Right Supervision/Evaluation
what is the delegation process - Answer-assessment and planning
communication
surveillance and supervision
evaluation and feedback
overdelegation - Answer-when the workload is more than the delegate can accomplish
in the allotted time frame
underdelegation - Answer-occurs when there is failure to transfer authority for a task or
to provide clear direction to the delegate because the RN fears losing control or
authority, feels insecure, believes he or she can accomplish the task quicker, or is
inexperienced
, what are delegation barriers - Answer-- lack of willingness to do a task
-lack of skill or comfort with skill required
-felling overworked or perception of an unfair assignment
- feeling physically unable to do the work
what is communication - Answer-- a two way process
-the exchange of information
-an interactive process
what is the communication process - Answer-sender, encoding, message, channel,
receiver, decoding, feedback
what is verbal communication - Answer-conscious method, face to face, emails,
memos, essential for leaders
what is nonverbal communication - Answer-behaviors, actions, conscious or
subconscious, congruency
what factors influence communication - Answer-gender, generation, culture, values,
personal space, environment, role and relationships
what is the a formal channel of communication - Answer-- planned with intent with
communication
- ex: interviewing, evaluating, disciplining
what is informal channel of communication - Answer-- casual and used to connect with
others
-ex: personal conversations
what is grapevine channel of communication - Answer-- moves quickly in all levels of
organization
- not preferred and unreliable
-ignores formal avenues of exchanges
Health care organizational communication - Answer-•Downward- hierarchical structure
•Supervisor to subordinate
•Example: CEO to manger
•Upward - information up the chain of command
•Example: staff nurse sharing ideas with manager
•Diagonal - communicating with different levels
•Example: different levels of organization working on the same project together
•Lateral -communicating within similar levels
•Example: nurse to nurse sharing
how can communication be ineffective - Answer-- leads to errors
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