How can a leader create unified commitment on a team?
What will be an ideal response?
Using characteristics of team effectiveness (i.e., enabling structure, expert coaching, clear direction); creating a "collaborative climate"; and getting members to invest in the "clear, elevating goal". The text also suggests that "team spirit can be developed by involving members in all aspects of the process."
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He is alert, and oriented to time, person, and place. His responses seem appropriate. The nurse determines the cognitive changes that the client describes are A) early symptoms of dementia. B) indicators of depression in the elderly. C) normal signs of aging. D) memory impairment that may be related to cerebral ischemia.
A long-term care resident has limited use of the right side of his body, but is coherent at intervals. If this patient develops decubiti, which factor might the facility plead to prevent liability?
1. The resident must be confined to bed for prolonged periods of time because of his condition. 2. The resident is unable to obtain proper nutrition because of his refusal to eat. 3. Understaffing prevents the nurses from performing necessary passive range of motion exercises to the patient's affected side. 4. Nursing notes reveal that the patient is repositioned frequently, but somehow manages to return to the back-lying position.
When planning care for a client with passive-aggressive personality disorder, the nurse will need to include interventions for which of the following behaviors?
A) Avoidance of anxiety-provoking situations B) Compulsive needs for perfection and praise C) Dependence on others for decisions D) Procrastination and intentional inefficiency
A nurse is preparing a client for discharge. He has had diabetes for several years with widely fluctuating blood sugars. During his hospitalization, his right foot was amputated
As the nurse anticipates the client's and family's needs once he is home, she may ask which of the following questions? A) How are you going to manage? B) What help do you have at home? C) Will you and the family be able to provide all the care needed? D) How will you change your diabetic care now that your foot is amputated?