Leadership and Nursing Care
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Management 6th Edition
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TEST BANK
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Diane Huber
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Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
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© Diane Huber.
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All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is
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prohibited.
, Leadership and Nursing Care Management – 6th Edition
(ISBN 9780323389662)
Diane Huber
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Leadership and Management Principles
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Chapter 2. Change and Innovation
Chapter 3. Organizational Climate and Culture
Chapter 4. Managerial Decision Making
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Chapter 5. Managing Time and Stress
Chapter 6. Legal and Ethical Issues
Chapter 7. Communication Leadership
Chapter 8. Team Building and Working With Effective Groups
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Chapter 9. Delegation in Nursing
Chapter 10. Power and Conflict
Chapter 11. Workplace Diversity
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Chapter 12. Organizational Structure
Chapter 13. Decentralization and Shared Governance
Chapter 14. Strategic Management
Chapter 15. Professional Practice Models
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Chapter 16. Case and Population Case Management
Chapter 17. Evidence-Based Practice: Strategies for Nurse Leaders
Chapter 18. Quality and Safety
Chapter 19. Measuring and Managing Outcomes
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Chapter 20. Prevention of Workplace Violence
Chapter 21. Confronting the Nursing Shortage
Chapter 22. Staffing and Scheduling
Chapter 23. Budgeting, Productivity, and Costing out Nursing
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Chapter 24. Performance Appraisal
Chapter 25. All-Hazards Disaster Preparedness
Chapter 26. Data Management and Clinical Informatics
Chapter 27. Marketing
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, Chapter 01: Leadership and Management Principles
Huber: Leadership & Nursing Care Management, 6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Leadership is best defined as:
a. an interpersonal process of participating by encouraging fellowship.
b. delegation of authority and responsibility and the coordination of activities.
c. inspiring people to accomplish goals through support and confidence building.
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d. the integration of resources through planning, organizing, and directing.
ANS: C
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring confidence
and support among followers.
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DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
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2. A medical-surgical unit reports higher rates of patient satisfaction coupled with high rates of
staff satisfaction and productivity. Which of the following is attributed to the data findings?
a. Effective leadership
b. Management involvement
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c. Mentoring
d. Rewards and recognition
ANS: A
Effective leadership is important in nursing because of the impact on nurses’ work lives, it
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being a stabilizing influence during change, and for nurses’ productivity and quality of care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
3. A staff registered nurse (RN) is leading a multidisciplinary clinical pathway team in the
development of care for patients with total knee replacement. Which of the following
statements exemplifies leadership behaviors in a clinical pathway team meeting?
a. “Nursing is responsible for pain control of the total knee replacement patient.”
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b. “Our pharmacist has provided some excellent pain control literature.”
c. “Physical therapy’s expertise is in rehabilitation, not pain control.”
d. “Total knee replacement patients require optimal pain control.”
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ANS: B
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring confidence
and support among followers. The correct answer is supportive of a team member’s work and
depicts some skill at interpersonal relationships.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
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, 4. Which of the following is true of management activities?
a. Inspiring a vision is a management function.
b. Management is focused on task accomplishment.
c. Management is more focused on human relationships.
d. Management is more important than leadership.
ANS: B
Management is focused on task accomplishment.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
5. During a staff meeting, a group of RNs has complained that medications are not arriving to
the unit in a timely manner. The nurse manager suggests that the group resolve this issue
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through the development and work of a multidisciplinary team led by one of these RNs. This
scenario demonstrates:
a. adaptation.
b. empowerment.
c. flexibility.
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d. relationship management.
ANS: B
Empowerment is the giving of authority, responsibility, and the freedom to act. In this
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situation, the manager has given authority, responsibility, and the freedom to act in the
investigation and resolution of this issue.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply N UR
(Ap SItion
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TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
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MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
6. A nurse is caring for an elderly patient who was admitted after sustaining a fall at home.
When creating a care plan for the patient, she requests that the doctor order a home health visit
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to assess for home safety and medication compliance. In addition, the nurse is concerned
about the nutrition of the patient and requests a dietitian evaluation. The nurse is
demonstrating which of the following leadership skills?
a. Care provider
b. Business principles
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c. Care coordination
d. Change management
ANS: C
Care coordination is the delivery of nursing services that involves the organization and
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coordination of complex activities. The nurse uses managerial and leadership skills to
facilitate delivery of quality care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) TOP: Nursing Process: Planning
MSC: Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk Potential
7. Interpersonal communication and the ability to apply are two critical skills every nurse
needs to enhance professional practice.
a. vision
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Management 6th Edition
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TEST BANK
IA
_A
Diane Huber
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────────────────────────────────────────────────────
RO
Comprehensive Test Bank for Instructors
and Students
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© Diane Huber.
D
All rights reserved. Reproduction or distribution without permission is
?
prohibited.
, Leadership and Nursing Care Management – 6th Edition
(ISBN 9780323389662)
Diane Huber
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Leadership and Management Principles
ST
Chapter 2. Change and Innovation
Chapter 3. Organizational Climate and Culture
Chapter 4. Managerial Decision Making
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Chapter 5. Managing Time and Stress
Chapter 6. Legal and Ethical Issues
Chapter 7. Communication Leadership
Chapter 8. Team Building and Working With Effective Groups
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Chapter 9. Delegation in Nursing
Chapter 10. Power and Conflict
Chapter 11. Workplace Diversity
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Chapter 12. Organizational Structure
Chapter 13. Decentralization and Shared Governance
Chapter 14. Strategic Management
Chapter 15. Professional Practice Models
PP
Chapter 16. Case and Population Case Management
Chapter 17. Evidence-Based Practice: Strategies for Nurse Leaders
Chapter 18. Quality and Safety
Chapter 19. Measuring and Managing Outcomes
RO
Chapter 20. Prevention of Workplace Violence
Chapter 21. Confronting the Nursing Shortage
Chapter 22. Staffing and Scheduling
Chapter 23. Budgeting, Productivity, and Costing out Nursing
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Chapter 24. Performance Appraisal
Chapter 25. All-Hazards Disaster Preparedness
Chapter 26. Data Management and Clinical Informatics
Chapter 27. Marketing
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, Chapter 01: Leadership and Management Principles
Huber: Leadership & Nursing Care Management, 6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Leadership is best defined as:
a. an interpersonal process of participating by encouraging fellowship.
b. delegation of authority and responsibility and the coordination of activities.
c. inspiring people to accomplish goals through support and confidence building.
ST
d. the integration of resources through planning, organizing, and directing.
ANS: C
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring confidence
and support among followers.
UV
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
IA
2. A medical-surgical unit reports higher rates of patient satisfaction coupled with high rates of
staff satisfaction and productivity. Which of the following is attributed to the data findings?
a. Effective leadership
b. Management involvement
_A
c. Mentoring
d. Rewards and recognition
ANS: A
Effective leadership is important in nursing because of the impact on nurses’ work lives, it
PP
being a stabilizing influence during change, and for nurses’ productivity and quality of care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
RO
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
3. A staff registered nurse (RN) is leading a multidisciplinary clinical pathway team in the
development of care for patients with total knee replacement. Which of the following
statements exemplifies leadership behaviors in a clinical pathway team meeting?
a. “Nursing is responsible for pain control of the total knee replacement patient.”
VE
b. “Our pharmacist has provided some excellent pain control literature.”
c. “Physical therapy’s expertise is in rehabilitation, not pain control.”
d. “Total knee replacement patients require optimal pain control.”
D?
ANS: B
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring confidence
and support among followers. The correct answer is supportive of a team member’s work and
depicts some skill at interpersonal relationships.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
Med C
, 4. Which of the following is true of management activities?
a. Inspiring a vision is a management function.
b. Management is focused on task accomplishment.
c. Management is more focused on human relationships.
d. Management is more important than leadership.
ANS: B
Management is focused on task accomplishment.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
ST
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
5. During a staff meeting, a group of RNs has complained that medications are not arriving to
the unit in a timely manner. The nurse manager suggests that the group resolve this issue
UV
through the development and work of a multidisciplinary team led by one of these RNs. This
scenario demonstrates:
a. adaptation.
b. empowerment.
c. flexibility.
IA
d. relationship management.
ANS: B
Empowerment is the giving of authority, responsibility, and the freedom to act. In this
_A
situation, the manager has given authority, responsibility, and the freedom to act in the
investigation and resolution of this issue.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply N UR
(Ap SItion
plica NG) T
TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
PP
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
6. A nurse is caring for an elderly patient who was admitted after sustaining a fall at home.
When creating a care plan for the patient, she requests that the doctor order a home health visit
RO
to assess for home safety and medication compliance. In addition, the nurse is concerned
about the nutrition of the patient and requests a dietitian evaluation. The nurse is
demonstrating which of the following leadership skills?
a. Care provider
b. Business principles
VE
c. Care coordination
d. Change management
ANS: C
Care coordination is the delivery of nursing services that involves the organization and
D?
coordination of complex activities. The nurse uses managerial and leadership skills to
facilitate delivery of quality care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) TOP: Nursing Process: Planning
MSC: Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk Potential
7. Interpersonal communication and the ability to apply are two critical skills every nurse
needs to enhance professional practice.
a. vision
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