What is the best example of downward communication by a nurse-manager? The manager reviews the results of a nurse’s performance appraisal with the nurse.

What characteristic of primary nursing care should the manager describe to decision makers? Many nurses find it stimulating and challenging. Which statement demonstrates an intervention focused on the primary disadvantage of team nursing?

When applying the principles of quantum leadership, the nurse-manager should prioritize: 1….

• 1.It is simple approach to decision making.
• 2.It is narrower in scope than decision making.
• 3.It requires reasoning and creative analysis.
• 4.It is a synonym for the problem-solving process.

Which principle should guide the nurse-manager’s use of non-verbal communication? It is generally consistent across cultures, unlike verbal communication.

What principle should guide the nurse-manager’s understanding of gender differences in communication? Answers: A. Men and women communicate and use language differently.

What is the most important criterion for success for health-care providers collaborate on patient care? Feedback: In collaboration, problem solving is a joint effort with no superior/subordinate relationships. Mutual respect is required for its success.

While the focus historically for case management has been the individual patient, the case manager employed in a disease management program plans the care for populations or groups of patients with the same chronic illness.

What task will best allow a health-care organization to benchmark its performance? Comparing the organization’s performance with that of the best performing institutions.

Nurses may act as advocates by either helping others make informed decisions, by acting as intermediary in the environment, or by directly intervening on behalf of others. Advocates do not make decisions or provide consent but rather educate patients so they can be informed.

Common areas requiring nurseñpatient advocacy include inadequate patient consents; medical errors; access to health care; and respect for patient dignity and cultural values.

Nurse advocates liaise between patients and the physicians who treat them. They help patients gain a greater understanding of their medical condition as diagnosed by their doctors and help them to make the right decisions for their future health.

Investigate health policy agendas that local legislators have established for their terms in office. Volunteer to participate in policy meetings or related activities. Join your professional nursing organization. Join a coalition.

Here’s a primer on where ANA stands on these issues and current legislation that you can support.

• Safe staffing. According to ANA’s 2013-2016 Health Risk Appraisal, more than half of nurses regularly work shifts longer than 10 hours.
• Education funding for nurses.
• Workplace violence.
• Public health issues.

There are three types of advocacy – self-advocacy, individual advocacy and systems advocacy.

Types of advocacy

• Self-advocacy.
• Group advocacy.
• Non-instructed advocacy.
• Peer advocacy.
• Citizen advocacy.
• Professional advocacy.

Advocacy is defined as any action that speaks in favor of, recommends, argues for a cause, supports or defends, or pleads on behalf of others.

Skills such as communication, collaboration, presentation, and maintaining a professional relationship are important skills needed by anyone who is an advocate.