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Leadership & Management
21-page illustrated PNLE cram sheet
What it covers
- Leadership and management compared
- Great Man, trait, behavioral, contingency, transactional and transformational theories
- Autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire styles
- Servant, situational, charismatic and authentic leadership
- Emotional intelligence
- Power and authority
- Taylor, Weber, Fayol, Gulick, Mayo, McGregor, Ouchi
- The management process
- Fayol's 14 principles
- Vision, mission, philosophy, goals, objectives, policies
- SWOT
- Budgets and NCH/PPD
- Time management and meetings
- The organization chart
- Chain of command, unity of command, span of control
- Centralized and decentralized structures
- Shared governance and Magnet
- Accreditation and hospital levels
- Care-delivery models
- Staffing, acuity and scheduling
- DOH ratios, RA 5901, RA 7305, RA 9173 Sec. 29
- Preceptor, mentor, staff development
- Motivation theories
- Communication
- Delegation recap
- Conflict and negotiation
- Lewin, change strategies, adopters
- Controlling and Donabedian
- TQM, CQI, PDSA, Six Sigma, Lean
- Sentinel events, near misses, incident reports, just culture
- Performance appraisal
- Progressive discipline
- Read the stem, name the answer
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