Using the Leadership and Management Competency Checklist, the nurse preceptor can assist the orienting nurse to obtain skills in leadership and management and to professionally develop their role.
Some of the areas involved on this checklist include:
A. Electrocardiogram (ECG), laboratory spe-cimen collection, and physical assessment
B. Specimen collection, nasogastric tube in-sertion, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and telemetry
C. Team building, communicating, profes-sional role development, and unit man-agement
D. Code cart, IV management, PYXIS classi-fications, and physical assessment
Question 2
Which of the following characteristics are reflective of a transformational leader?
A. Honest, charismatic, passionate, and op-timistic
B. Sympathetic, commanding, pessimistic, and controlling
C. Honest, competitive, goal-directed for self-achievement, and controlling
D. Unilateral decision maker, solely inter-ested in the bottom line, and pessimistic
Nurse bees tending to brood in cells both open and capped with beeswax.
The nurse is using Standard Precautions to draw blood.
The surgical nurse assists the client into the correct position
The nurse applies a pulse oximeter sensor on the client’s finger.
Example of a patient’s ledger in practice management software.
A Critical Thinking Guide and Checklist