Organizations are required to follow specific behaviors and ...

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Organizations are required to follow specific behaviors and actions that provide nurses with the resources they need in order to efficiently delegate. Some of these are listed below. Which is not necessarily correct?
 
  a. Maintain adequate staffing.
  b. Provide standards for ongoing supervision and periodic licensure/ competency verification and evaluation of all staff.
  c. Facilitate regular evidence-based reviews of critical standards, policies, procedures, nurses, and nursing diagnosis.
  d. Consider the need to develop a shared governance model of nursing practice encouraging active participation of all nurses in decision-making and delegation standards.

Question 2

A nursing instructor is evaluating whether the nursing students understand the three fundamental qualities that leaders share. According to Bennis and Nanus, the fundamental qualities of effective leaders are:
 
  a. guided vision, passion, and integrity.
  b. knowledge of self, honesty, and maturity.
  c. intelligence, self-confidence, and determination.
  d. honesty, self-awareness, and sociability.

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Answer to Question 1

C
A number of organizational elements are required to assist nurses with effective delegation. Organizations which take an active role in supporting nurses by providing resource materials and support enhance the RN's potential to delegate nursing tasks and actions correctly and efficiently. Some of these organizational elements include: 1) maintain adequate staffing; 2) provide standards for ongoing supervision and periodic licensure/competency verification and evaluation of all staff; 3) facilitate regular evidence-based reviews of critical standards, policies, procedures (nursing evaluation is done by individual nurse supervisors not necessarily the organization as a whole; nursing diagnosis is part of the nursing process performed by individual nurses); 4) consider the need to develop a shared governance model of nursing practice encouraging active participation of all nurses in decision-making and delegation standards; and 5) develop intrahospital and intraagency safety transfer policies.

Answer to Question 2

A
Bennis and Nanus list guided vision, passion, and integrity as fundamental qualities of effective
leaders. Knowledge of self, honesty and maturity; intelligence, self-confidence and determination;
self-awareness and sociability are all desirable traits in leaders as well as in others.