Which of the following depicts the charge nurse as autocratic over the student?
a. The student is in charge of the patient as-signment while the charge nurse observes.
b. The charge nurse and the student share equal power in the patient assignment.
c. The charge nurse has absolute power over the student and the patient assignment.
d. The charge nurse passes power over the student to the attending physician.
C
When the charge nurse is autocratic, she retains absolute power over the student and the assign-ment. Autocratic leadership (also known as authoritarian leadership) is characterized by individ-ual control over all decisions and little input from nursing staff, including students. Autocratic leaders typically make choices based on their own ideas and judgments and rarely accept advice from followers. There is a benefit to charge nurses being autocratic in leadership style when working with students because their decisions regarding nurse care and nursing assignments are based on experience that a student nurse would not have.
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