NURS 3325 LEADING AND MANAGING IN
NURSING LATEST EXAM WITH 200+
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Nurses on Unit 4 are unhappy and frustrated with their nurse manager. They complain that "nothing is ever good enough for him." These statements suggest
that the nurse manager's goals may be:
- Measurable.
- Unrealistic.
- Attainable.
- Too low. - ANSWER-B
As a nurse manager, you embrace the usefulness of resources such as Smart Bed.
This behavior is important to:
- Budget development.
- A manager's role.
- Succession planning.
- Encouragement of staff utilization of technology. - ANSWER-D
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A manager who is concerned with ensuring that patients on her surgical unit have
the necessary information to make informed choices is:
- Practicing legal nursing care.
- Demonstrating respect for patient rights.
- Avoiding risks.
- Likely experiencing issues with informed consent. - ANSWER-B
Budgeting and protection of revenues is a function of:
- Leadership.
- Management.
- Team leadership.
- Followers. - ANSWER-B
During staff meetings, you make it a regular practice to encourage shared problem solving and to recognize those who go beyond basic roles and responsibilities to contribute to a positive team environment and to quality patient care. This practice
exemplifies:
- Values-based management.
- Shaping of workplace behavior.
- Cooperation and collaboration.
- Recognition of institutional priorities. - ANSWER-A
In developing an orientation program, the hospital educator breaks essential organizational information down into chunks, which she develops as online modules. This is an application of which of Drucker's functions of management?
- Establishment of goals and objectives
- Motivation and communication 2 / 4
- Analysis and interpretation of performance
- Organization of activities into manageable tasks - ANSWER-D
Nancy is a staff nurse who works on a rehabilitation unit. Nancy tells you that the assistants are experiencing difficulty with the new lift and wonders what your thoughts on organizing an in-service would be. Nancy is exhibiting which trait of a follower?
- Provides a vision for safety that is communicated
- Thrives on taking risks in identifying the problem with safety
- Coordinates the development of knowledge and skills necessary to use the lift
- Assumes responsibility for identifying a safety concern and concedes authority
for solution to you - ANSWER-D
A nurse manager has worked rapidly to bring the staff to accept changes in the unit's mission, so that downsizing can be avoided. This nurse manager is using
quantum leadership by:
- Focusing on past concerns related to the mission.
- Teaching staff members how to self-manage themselves.
- Determining accurately the direction of change in the institution.
- Requiring all staff members to review and reinforce their technological skills. -
ANSWER-C
The chief nursing officer and the dean of the School of Nursing believe that by establishing rules and regulations and controlling the environment, this partnership
will:
- Promote professional medical authority, autonomy, and responsibility.
- Need a degree of flexibility to engender success.
- Be essential for self-governance.
- Provide for the establishment of medical committees. - ANSWER-B 3 / 4
With revenue reductions and cost saving measures, the number of managers has been reduced, which has increased the number of team leaders supervised by
managers by as many as three. This change may result in:
- Decreased patient satisfaction.
- Increased efficiency in costs.
- A more positive perception of managers.
- Little change to manager-staff relationships. - ANSWER-A
The hospital administration gives approval to the chief nursing officer to hire clinical nurse specialists in staff positions rather than in administrative positions. A clinical specialist who has staff authority but no line authority typically is able to:
- Function through influence.
- Take complete responsibility for the care of clients.
- Interview and hire staff nurses for designated nursing units.
- Be granted functional authority to determine standards of nursing care and
enforce them. - ANSWER-A
A new director of nursing in a small rural hospital wants to make changes from the traditional model of governance to a shared-governance model. Select the characteristic below that best describes the traditional organizational structure in which a staff nurse is assigned to carry out nursing tasks for clients but is not given the chance to provide input into forming the policies and procedures by which care
is delivered or the standards by which care is evaluated:
- Bureaucratic
- Decentralized
- Delegated authority and responsibility
- Delegated responsibility but no authority - ANSWER-D
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