Fundamentals ch 22

A nurse leader is planning to change the scheduling process in order to improve staffing on the unit. Which of the following would be the next step in implementing a change?

Explore the pros and cons of potential scheduling models.

A nurse is caring for a client with pneumonia. Which task is most appropriate for the nurse to delegate to an experienced unlicensed assistive personnel (UAP)?

obtaining vital signs every 4 hours

A nurse manager tells her staff that they need to increase response time to client requests by five minutes, beginning tomorrow. The time to begin this activity has been established by the manager and her staff. This action involves goal setting. What leadership style is noted with the implementation of goal setting?

Participative leadership

Two new graduate nurses are requesting the same preceptor for unit orientation. Both new graduates have been very vocal about being unhappy if they do not receive their choice of preceptors. Which illustrates the nurses using a COMPROMISE approach to conflict resolution?

The nurses decide to share the preceptor. The preceptor will precept one nurse at the beginning of the orientation and precept the other nurse at the end of the orientation. Compromise involves both parties willing to relinquish something of equal value

The nurse manager notices a trend in nurses routinely arriving to work late. How can the nurse use the TRANSACTIONAL leadership style to get nurses to arrive to work on time?

Monitor time clock reports on a monthly basis and enter all nurses who have not been tardy into a raffle for a paid day vacation. Transactional leadership style involves creating a reward system to get the desired outcome. Entering the nurses who have not been tardy is the only option that provides a reward