NUR 101 Chap 9
- What is the definition of leadership?
Answer Process of influencing people to accom- plish goals
- What is the focus of leadership?
Answer People
- What is true of a manager?
Answer Has an assigned position in the formal organization.
- What are the characteristics of successful leadership?
Answer Empowerment, Self-Understanding, Intuition
- Which of the statements is most accurate?
Answer Managers have formal leadership titles in the organization; leaders are often informal leaders.
- How does the term vision relate to being a leader?
Answer leaders imagine a different and better situation and identify ways to achieve it.
- The nurse manager tends to make most unit decisions without consulting the nursing staff.
Which word best describes this style of leadership?
Answer Author- itarian 1 / 2
- The chair of a hospital committee acts as a facilitator and provides construc- tive criticism,
information, and suggestions. Which style of leadership does this represent?
Answer Democratic
- The manager of an E.R. tries to involve staff in department decisions. However, when a
mass casualty situation arises, the nurse becomes very directive. What style of leadership is described?
Answer Situational
- The staff members of a unit are inspired by their nurse-managers leader- ship and enjoy
working to create a positive nursing environment of the units patients. What style of leadership does this describe?
Answer Transformational
- Which option characterizes the Laissez-faire style of leadership?
Answer The group leader is passive, allowing the group to work on goals independently.
- Which option characterizes the charismatic style of leadership?
Answer The man- ager has a close relatoinship with the nurses on the unit and is an inspiration for them to provide quality care.
- Which option characterizes the situational style of leadership?
Answer The leader provides dirrection and suppor according to the level of the maturity of the group members.
- The nurse has been hired by the organization to direct the work of other nurses. What is the
- / 2
term best used to describe the type of power the nurse will hold?