- To be invisible.
- To be a visible and supportive presence.
- To resist the change at all costs.
- To blame others for the change.
Category: Leadership & management in Nursing
- The individual nurse at the bedside.
- The patient's family.
- The hospital management and administration.
- The janitorial staff.
- Insubordination
- Professional accountability and patient advocacy
- A communication error
- A lack of trust
- Hope for the best.
- Provide clear, concise instructions and a deadline.
- Threaten the person with disciplinary action.
- Check on the person every two minutes.
- All team members having the same personality.
- Mutual respect and effective communication.
- A strict hierarchy where only doctors can speak.
- Having team meetings only once a year.
- Showing weakness and indecisiveness.
- Wasting valuable time.
- Fostering a culture of critical thinking and preventing groupthink.
- Encouraging insubordination.
- task
- relationship
- autocratic
- laissez-faire
- Increased chaos and confusion.
- Decreased job satisfaction.
- Increased job satisfaction, ownership, and improved patient care.
- A loss of the leader's authority.
- To have a formal record for disciplinary action.
- To provide constructive feedback for professional growth and development.
- To compare one nurse against another.
- To fulfill a bureaucratic requirement.
- Be faithful to commitments.
- Be fair to all.
- Tell the truth.
- Do no harm.
- Having too many resources and staff.
- A lack of patient volume.
- Navigating bureaucratic hurdles and socio-cultural expectations.
- The simplicity of healthcare problems.
- To complete the daily documentation.
- To contain the spill and ensure the safety of all patients and staff according to protocol.
- To find out who is to blame for the spill.
- To call a press conference.
- Be consistent, fair, and demonstrate clinical competence.
- Pretend you know everything.
- Share gossip with your team.
- Make promises you cannot keep.
- Budgeting
- Quality improvement
- Promoting staff well-being and preventing burnout.
- Conflict resolution
- Transformational
- Transactional
- Democratic
- Laissez-faire
- Forgetting about the task once it is delegated.
- Taking credit for the work if it is done well.
- Providing feedback and evaluation of the completed task.
- Never delegating to that person again.
- Making a to-do list.
- Delegating all your tasks.
- Setting clear goals and identifying your priorities.
- Answering all your emails.
- A transactional leader
- A bureaucratic leader
- A transformational leader
- An autocratic leader
- A lack of clinical skills.
- A clash of personalities or communication styles.
- Having too much free time.
- The hospital being too clean.
