- Assault
- Battery
- Malpractice
- Libel
Category: Leadership & management in Nursing
- Treating everyone exactly the same.
- Assuming all younger nurses are lazy.
- Understanding and respecting the different values and communication styles of each generation.
- Firing all the older nurses.
- A clear agenda and a defined purpose.
- At least 15 people in attendance.
- A duration of no less than two hours.
- No time limit.
- Planning the daily patient assignments.
- Creating a long-term vision and goals for the organization (e.g., over 3-5 years).
- Planning the staff holiday roster.
- Planning how to handle a specific patient complaint.
- Report the colleague to the police.
- Post about it on social media.
- Intervene immediately if possible to ensure patient safety, then report it through the proper channels.
- Ignore it to protect the colleague.
- Introduce a major, disruptive change to keep them on their toes.
- Acknowledge their success and continue to provide support and resources.
- Take all the credit for the team's success.
- Disband the team.
- Being faithful to one's commitments and responsibilities.
- Telling the truth.
- Treating all patients fairly.
- Respecting the patient's choices.
- Transformational
- Democratic
- Autocratic
- Laissez-faire
- Quit her job immediately.
- Keep her feelings to herself and pretend everything is fine.
- Seek support from her charge nurse, a mentor, or a trusted colleague.
- Call in sick for the next week.
- Reduce costs for the hospital.
- Improve patient outcomes and safety.
- Increase the amount of documentation.
- Win hospital awards.
- Legitimate power
- Coercive power
- Reward power
- Referent power
- Hiding the shortage from the staff to prevent panic.
- Rationing the available PPE based on risk, ensuring staff are trained on its proper use, and advocating to administration for more supplies.
- Telling staff to reuse single-use masks indefinitely.
- Sending staff to care for infectious patients without any PPE.
- Expert power
- Referent power
- Legitimate power
- Coercive power
- Makes scheduling more complicated.
- Can lead to better understanding of and care for a diverse patient population.
- Is a legal requirement with no other benefits.
- Leads to more conflict within the team.
- Vague, personal, and critical.
- Specific, behavioral, and timely.
- Always positive, even if performance is poor.
- Delivered only once a year during a formal review.
- Working at the same hospital for her entire career.
- Continuous learning and professional development.
- Doing only the tasks she enjoys.
- Following the doctor's orders without question.
- The ability to remain invisible.
- Clear, credible, and consistent communication.
- The ability to blame other departments.
- The ability to work from home.
- The number of tasks each nurse can perform.
- The combination of different levels of nursing staff (e.g., RNs, LPNs, assistants) on a unit.
- The friendliness of the nursing staff.
- The mix of male and female nurses.
