Deck 12: Understanding the Executive Roles of Health Leadership

Question 1

List three motivations of physicians in a health organization.
a. _________________________________________
b. _________________________________________
c. _________________________________________

Answer 1

No Answer.

Question 2

How could a health leader build relationships with payers, employers, physicians, and nurses and stay consistent in their leadership and management of resources of the health organization?

Answer 2

No Answer.

Question 3

Constructs of the Iron Triangle Model are:

A) payers, providers, employers.
B) cost, employers, providers.
C) cost, payers, providers.
D) cost, quality, employers
E) None of these is correct.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Trust, _________, and honesty form the foundation of a professional relationship in health organizations.

A) contracts
B) life scripts
C) resources
D) respect
E) contracts and life scripts

Question 5

Normally, increases in cost result in decreases in _____________ in the Iron Triangle Model.

A) quality
B) providers
C) access
D) payers
E) None of these is correct.

Question 6

Health leaders should visit and know the physician leaders and allow those physician leaders to liaison with the other physicians.

Question 7

Nurses are not needed to staff hospital beds; only physicians are required.

Question 8

Most nurses will respect the courage and intent to build a good relationship with them.

Question 9

From the strategic plan, strategies, goals, and objectives are developed.

Question 10

Compromising weakens relationships.

Question 11

Stakeholder dynamics are only important for senior leaders of health organizations to be aware of.

Question 12

While the numbers of stakeholders in health organizations can be numerous, there are four main types of stakeholders to consider in any healthcare decision making.

Question 13

In health care, priorities seldom change due to environmental demands.

Question 14

Health leaders need to create a symbiotic, trusting, and integrity-based relationship with physicians.

Question 15

Nurse leaders are important to the health organization in that they provide care for your patients on an ongoing basis, provide patient education, and perform a variety of tasks that require clinical expertise.

Question 16

An average patient count per nurse is 4-6 per shift with average acuity.

Question 17

Building a solid relationship with nurse leaders is like building a relationship with anyone where trust, respect, and honesty form the foundation for interaction.

Question 18

As a health leader it is your responsibility to determine where your responsibilities intersect with other leaders' responsibilities.

Question 19

In building professional relationships, seek guidance from mentors in relationship building.

Question 20

Stakeholders are groups, individuals, and associations that influence an organization.

Question 21

Collectively, stakeholders in the Managed Care Quaternion affect all aspects of health organizational life.

Question 22

The parity of healthcare is a modern version of the Sword of Damocles.