The clinical nurse leader needs to identify the staff who must go ...

[crazycityslicker]

The clinical nurse leader needs to identify the staff who must go home due to low census. Which answer below describes a democratic style of decision making?
 
  a. The clinical nurse leader identifies the staff person with the most vacation and asks them to go home.
  b. The clinical nurse leader tells the last person to show up for their shift to go home.
  c. The clinical nurse leader decides not to send anyone home because it is too difficult to decide who should lose hours.
  d. The clinical nurse leader asks the group if any of them would like the opportunity to go home and selects staff who volunteer.

Question 2

The hospital must reduce the number of readmissions from 11 to 8 in the next year. Which of the following best represents the transformational leadership style in accomplishing this goal?
 
  a. The director communicates the goal of reducing readmissions to the hospital operations team and tells them to submit their action plan by the end of the week.
  b. The organization charters three work teams to identify solutions for the top three causes for readmissions. These teams are given full authority to implement their solution.
  c. The director of quality develops a vision statement and action plan to achieve the goal. The director works directly with the involved departments to implement the action plan.
  d. The CEO communicates the goal to the organizational directors and managers and states that they are entrusted to solve the problem.

[randomguy133]

Answer to Question 1

ANS: D
Democratic leaders use a participatory style of decision making. In the other choices, the clinical nurse leader makes the decision independent of the staff.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
Transformational leaders communicate a vision and motivate employees to accomplish the goal. The director who communicates the goal of reducing readmissions to the hospital operations team and tells them to submit their action plan by the end of the week leaves the solution to achieve the goal to the followers to develop without motivating them. The solution that is left to the work teams to resolve is not an example of transformational leadership. The CEO entrusts the managers and directors to solve the problem without giving them a vision or engaging in the solution with them.

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