Test Bank for
Leading and Managing in Nursing, 6th Edition by Patricia S.
Yoder-Wise || ISBN: 9780323185776 || All Chapters 1-30
Complete, Accurate Answers with Comprehensive Explanations ||
RECENTLY UPDATED VERSION
Grade37 Stuvia
,Table of contents
PART 1: CORE CONCEPTS
Overview
1. Leading, Managing, and Following
2. Patient Safety
3. Developing the Role of Leader
4. Developing the Role of Manager
Context
5. Legal and Ethical Issues
6. Making Decisions and Solving Problems
7. Healthcare Organizations
8. Understanding and Designing Organizational Structures
9. Cultural Diversity in Health Care
10. Power, Politics, and Influence
PART 2: MANAGING RESOURCES
11. Caring, Communicating, and Managing with Technology
12. Managing Costs and Budgets
13. Care Delivery Strategies
14. Staffing and Scheduling
15. Selecting, Developing, and Evaluating Staff
PART 3: CHANGING THE STATUS QUO
16. Strategic Planning, Goal-Setting, and Marketing
17. Leading Change
18. Building Teams Through Communication and Partnerships
19. Collective Action
,20. Managing Quality and Risk
21. Translating Research into Practice
PART 4: INTERPERSONAL AND PERSONAL SKILLS
Interpersonal
22. Consumer Relationships
23. Conflict: The Cutting Edge of Change
24. Managing Personal/Personnel Problems
25. Workplace Violence and Incivility
26. Delegation: An Art of Professional Practice
Personal
27. Role Transition
28. Self-Management: Stress and Time
29. Managing Your Career
Future
30. Thriving for the Future
, Chapter 01: Leading, Managing, and Following
Yoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nurse manager of a 20-bed medical unit finds that 80% of the patients are older adults. She is
asked to assess and adapt the unit to better meet the unique needs of the older adult patient.
Using complexity principles, what would be the best approach to take in making this change?
a. Leverage the hierarchical management position to get unit staff involved in assessment and
planning.
b. Engage involved staff at all levels in the decision-making process.
c. Focus the assessment on the unit, and omit the hospital and community environment.
d. Hire a geriatric specialist to oversee and control the project.
ANS: B
Complexity theory suggests that systems interact and adapt and that decision making occurs
throughout the systems, as opposed to being held in a hierarchy. In complexity theory, every
voice counts, and therefore, all levels of staff would be involved in decision making.
REF: Page 8 TOP: AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building
2. A unit manager of a 25-bed medical/surgical area receives a phone call from a nurse who has
called in sick five times in the past month. He tells the manager that he very much wants to come
to work when scheduled but must often care for his wife, who is undergoing treatment
for breast cancer. According to Maslow’s need hierarchy theory, what would be the best approach to
satisfying the needs of this nurse, other staff, and patients?
a. Line up agency nurses who can be called in to work on short notice.
b. Place the nurse on unpaid leave for the remainder of his wife’s treatment.
c. Sympathize with the nurse’s dilemma and let the charge nurse know that this nurse may be
calling in frequently in the future.
d. Work with the nurse, staffing office, and other nurses to arrange his scheduled days off
around his wife’s treatments.
ANS: D
Placing the nurse on unpaid leave may threaten the nurse’s capacity to meet physiologic needs
and demotivate the nurse. Unsatisfactory coverage of shifts on short notice could affect
patient care and threaten the needs of staff to feel competent. Arranging the schedule around
the wife’s needs meets the needs of the staff and of patients while satisfying the nurse’s need
for affiliation.
Leading and Managing in Nursing, 6th Edition by Patricia S.
Yoder-Wise || ISBN: 9780323185776 || All Chapters 1-30
Complete, Accurate Answers with Comprehensive Explanations ||
RECENTLY UPDATED VERSION
Grade37 Stuvia
,Table of contents
PART 1: CORE CONCEPTS
Overview
1. Leading, Managing, and Following
2. Patient Safety
3. Developing the Role of Leader
4. Developing the Role of Manager
Context
5. Legal and Ethical Issues
6. Making Decisions and Solving Problems
7. Healthcare Organizations
8. Understanding and Designing Organizational Structures
9. Cultural Diversity in Health Care
10. Power, Politics, and Influence
PART 2: MANAGING RESOURCES
11. Caring, Communicating, and Managing with Technology
12. Managing Costs and Budgets
13. Care Delivery Strategies
14. Staffing and Scheduling
15. Selecting, Developing, and Evaluating Staff
PART 3: CHANGING THE STATUS QUO
16. Strategic Planning, Goal-Setting, and Marketing
17. Leading Change
18. Building Teams Through Communication and Partnerships
19. Collective Action
,20. Managing Quality and Risk
21. Translating Research into Practice
PART 4: INTERPERSONAL AND PERSONAL SKILLS
Interpersonal
22. Consumer Relationships
23. Conflict: The Cutting Edge of Change
24. Managing Personal/Personnel Problems
25. Workplace Violence and Incivility
26. Delegation: An Art of Professional Practice
Personal
27. Role Transition
28. Self-Management: Stress and Time
29. Managing Your Career
Future
30. Thriving for the Future
, Chapter 01: Leading, Managing, and Following
Yoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. A nurse manager of a 20-bed medical unit finds that 80% of the patients are older adults. She is
asked to assess and adapt the unit to better meet the unique needs of the older adult patient.
Using complexity principles, what would be the best approach to take in making this change?
a. Leverage the hierarchical management position to get unit staff involved in assessment and
planning.
b. Engage involved staff at all levels in the decision-making process.
c. Focus the assessment on the unit, and omit the hospital and community environment.
d. Hire a geriatric specialist to oversee and control the project.
ANS: B
Complexity theory suggests that systems interact and adapt and that decision making occurs
throughout the systems, as opposed to being held in a hierarchy. In complexity theory, every
voice counts, and therefore, all levels of staff would be involved in decision making.
REF: Page 8 TOP: AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building
2. A unit manager of a 25-bed medical/surgical area receives a phone call from a nurse who has
called in sick five times in the past month. He tells the manager that he very much wants to come
to work when scheduled but must often care for his wife, who is undergoing treatment
for breast cancer. According to Maslow’s need hierarchy theory, what would be the best approach to
satisfying the needs of this nurse, other staff, and patients?
a. Line up agency nurses who can be called in to work on short notice.
b. Place the nurse on unpaid leave for the remainder of his wife’s treatment.
c. Sympathize with the nurse’s dilemma and let the charge nurse know that this nurse may be
calling in frequently in the future.
d. Work with the nurse, staffing office, and other nurses to arrange his scheduled days off
around his wife’s treatments.
ANS: D
Placing the nurse on unpaid leave may threaten the nurse’s capacity to meet physiologic needs
and demotivate the nurse. Unsatisfactory coverage of shifts on short notice could affect
patient care and threaten the needs of staff to feel competent. Arranging the schedule around
the wife’s needs meets the needs of the staff and of patients while satisfying the nurse’s need
for affiliation.
