ANSWERS SEMESTER 1 2025 DUE APRIL
2026 ORIGINAL TEST BANK
,Table of Contents
Unit I: Decision Making, Leadership, and Management
Foundations
1. Decision Making, Problem Solving, and Critical Thinking:
Requisites for Successful Leadership and Management
2. Classical Views of Leadership and Management
3. Twenty-First-Century Thinking About Leadership and
Management
Unit II: Ethics, Law, and Advocacy
4. Ethical Issues
5. Legal and Legislative Issues
6. Patient, Subordinate, and Professional Advocacy
Unit III: Roles and Functions in Planning
7. Strategic and Operational Planning
8. Planned Change
9. Time Management
,10. Fiscal Planning
11. Career Development: From New Graduate to Retirement
Unit IV: Roles and Functions in Organizing
12. Organizational Structure
13. Organizational, Political, and Personal Power
14. Organizing Patient Care
Unit V: Roles and Functions in Staffing
15. Employee Recruitment, Selection, Placement, and Indoctrination
16. Socializing and Educating Staff for Team Building in a Learning
Organization
17. Staffing Needs and Scheduling Policies
Unit VI: Roles and Functions in Directing
18. Creating a Motivating Climate
19. Organizational, Interpersonal, and Group Communication
20. Delegation
21. Managing Conflict
22. Collective Bargaining, Unionization, and Employment Laws
, Unit VII: Roles and Functions in Controlling
23. Quality Control
24. Performance Appraisal
25. Problem Employees: Rule Breakers, Marginal Employees, and the
Chemically or Psychologically Impaired
CHAPTER 1: DECISION MAKING, PROBLEM SOLVING,
AND CRITICAL THINKING: REQUISITES FOR
SUCCESSFUL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
1. A nurse manager is faced with a decision to allocate limited
resources. Which step should the nurse manager take first in the
decision-making process?
A. Evaluate the potential outcomes
B. Define the problem
C. Make a decision based on experience
D. Implement the decision immediately
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: The first step in the decision-making process is to