Exam 31: Thriving for the Future

As a team,you and the staff have determined that there is a need to reduce medication errors on your unit.Together,you developed the questions that you would like addressed and searched the literature for relevant research studies.Based on the evidence,you suggested a change to your practices and now are involved in implementation of these changes.Today,there was a major study released that would significantly change what you have decided to do.What are you and your staff experiencing?

Which of the following actions is most representative of how health care of the future might be delivered? As a nurse leader,you:

As a nurse manager,it is important to become a "future thinker." Which is an example of a "future thinker"?

The chief nursing officer has been developing her portfolio for years.What is the chief nursing officer modeling?

A business condition that may assist forecasting but add to the complexity of change is:

Your organization is in the middle of re-designing patient care units,with decisions based on best practices and various other sources of evidence.In the middle of the transition,there is a temporary halt called to the transition because of a re-design of the health care system and greater emphasis on primary care.As a manager in this situation,your staff experience a gap between what they expected (the original re-design of the units)and what is actually happening (a need to integrate primary care in some way).According to Selye,the nurses on your nursing team are likely experiencing what?

Nursing professionals in the twenty-first century will accomplish most of their work:

Your organization is in the middle of re-designing patient care units,with decisions based on best practices and various other sources of evidence.In the middle of the transition,there is a temporary halt called to the transition because of a re-design of the health care system and greater emphasis on primary care.What would be a healthy response to this situation?

Your unit has several patients who have undergone limb amputation.In working with the clients,you begin to think beyond therapies such as pharmacotherapeutics and surgery and you explore biomechanics,robotics,mind-body approaches,and cognitive behavioral therapies as possibilities in working with these clients.You begin to amass information in several areas with which you previously had little familiarity.According to the Wise Forecast Model©,you are:

A stroke unit experiences numerous changes related to implementation of new technology,a changed nursing care delivery model,and staff turnover within a period of 6 months.Staff members begin to show signs of reluctance to implement any more changes.This exemplifies:

Which of the following strategies is most important in developing a strong vision?

In developing curricula that will address needs based on forecasts for the future,nursing educators need to contemplate:

Which of the following will require greater attention in the future?

A stroke unit experiences numerous changes related to implementation of new technology,a changed nursing care delivery model,and staff turnover within a period of 6 months.Staff members begin to show signs of reluctance to implement any more changes.The phenomenon experienced by the staff is termed:

Nursing research has indicated that the foundation for becoming a nursing leader is the ability to:

Nathan tells you that he has selected nursing as a career because many jobs are available and he will have job security.Your best response to Nathan is:

Which aspect of our tradition and history in nursing may impede our movement toward future-oriented thinking?

Based on studies of workplace environments for nurses and future projections,the workplace of the future will be:

To move beyond stereotypical thinking and toward thinking about the future,which of the following would be most consistent with thinking wildly in the Wise Forecast Model©?

A necessary leadership strength for nurses of the future is: