Leadership and Teamwork Flashcards
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A nurse notices that the nursing team consistently excludes the healthcare assistants from shift briefings. What leadership principle does this practice violate?
Answer: Inclusive leadership and team cohesion
Excluding healthcare assistants from briefings undermines inclusive leadership, reducing cohesion, shared understanding, and the contribution of all team members.
Which quality improvement methodology uses repeated small tests of change to evaluate and refine a clinical intervention before full implementation?
Answer: Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles
PDSA cycles enable teams to test changes on a small scale, learn from results, and iteratively refine interventions before wider rollout.
A nurse is leading a post-incident debrief after a medication error. What is the primary purpose of a structured debrief in this context?
Answer: To review what happened, identify contributing factors, and determine system improvements to prevent recurrence
A structured debrief focuses on systems thinking and learning, identifying contributing factors rather than attributing individual blame, to drive sustainable improvements.
When setting team goals using the SMART framework, which element is most often omitted in clinical settings, reducing goal effectiveness?
Answer: Time-bound
Goals without a defined timeframe lack urgency and accountability; adding a deadline makes progress trackable and improvement sustainable.
A ward manager is aware that one nurse consistently receives negative feedback from patients about communication but has not self-identified this as a problem. Using the Johari Window model, this information sits in which quadrant for that nurse?
Answer: Blind Spot
The Blind Spot quadrant contains information known to others but not to the individual, highlighting the need for feedback to expand self-awareness.
In clinical governance terms, what does 'accountability' specifically mean for a registered nurse?
Answer: Being answerable for one's own decisions and actions, and being able to justify them
Accountability means the nurse can be called to explain and justify their professional decisions and actions to patients, employers, and the NMC.
A team is preparing for a high-acuity patient transfer. Using Crew Resource Management (CRM) principles, what pre-transfer step is most critical for team safety?
Answer: Conducting a structured briefing that clarifies roles, anticipated risks, and escalation plans
A structured pre-transfer briefing aligns the team on roles, risks, and escalation pathways, reducing error during a high-risk patient movement.