NUR 216 EXAM 1 - 5 EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
VERIFIED ANSWERS 2026
Exam 1
Integrity Definition - Answers - Adherance to a strict moral code
What type of commitment?
Identification with and involvement in profession - Answers - Affective
What type of commitment?
Feeling of obligation to continue in profession - Answers - Normative
What type of commitment?
Awareness of costs associated with leaving profession - Answers - Continuance
What type of commitment?
Not inclined to promote profession - Answers - Continuance
What type of commitment?
Satisfying experience; strong desire to continue in the profession; involved - Answers -
Affective
What type of commitment?
develops as a result of a positive experience or having benefits - Answers - Normative
What type of commitment?
A nurse who enters the field because of a personal or family experience - Answers -
Normative
What type of commitment?
in the field for money and job security - Answers - Continuance
Order of the Stages of Commitment Development - Answers - First stage: exploratory
Second stage: testing
Third stage: passionate
,Fourth stage: quiet and bored
Final stage: integrated
What Stage of Commitment Development?
looking at positive effects; nursing students getting their scrubs - Answers - exploratory
What Stage of Commitment Development?
discover negative elements of the profession and decide whether or not it is worth it -
Answers - testing
What Stage of Commitment Development?
synthesizing the positive and negative stages; willing to commit to the profession;
become involved in SNA - Answers - passionate
What Stage of Commitment Development?
settling into the humdrum routine of the nursing program; middle to late into the nursing
programs - Answers - quiet and bored
What Stage of Commitment Development?
synthesize positive and negative into a complex, flexible, enduring form of commitment;
commitment is habit; excited to take NCLEX - Answers - integrated
6 ways to manage stress - Answers - -Relaxation and exercise
-Assertiveness (learn to say no)
-Accept errors and failures as learning experiences
-Accept what cannot be changed
-Get involved in organizations
-Counseling
Reasons someone may be an informal leader - Answers - seniority, age, special
abilities
Characteristics of a leader - Answers - productive, efficient, charismatic, informed,
articulate, self aware, confident
What type of leader?
Believes that individuals are externally motivated, incapable of making independent
decisions - Answers - Autocratic (authoritarian)
What type of leader?
,high productivity; group may feel secure but needs for creativity and autonomy are not
met - Answers - autocratic
What type of leader?
Most effective; quick and efficient - Answers - autocratic
What type of leader?
Leader as catalyst, facilitator - Answers - democratic (participative, consultive)
What type of leader?
group productivity and satisfaction are high - Answers - democratic
What type of leader?
assumes group is intrinsically motivated, and capable of making their own decisions -
Answers - democratic
What type of leader?
Hands-off approach; Presupposes group is internally motivated - Answers - laisse-faire
What type of leader?
effective for groups with both personal and professional maturity; leader acts as a
resource - Answers - laisse-faire
What type of leader?
Relies on organization's rules, policies, procedures - Answers - bureaucratic
What type of leader?
impersonal; does not trust themselves - Answers - bureaucratic
What type of leader?
Flexible in task, relationship behaviors; Considers staff's abilities - Answers - situational
What type of leader?
Knows nature of task to be done; Is sensitive to context in which task takes place -
Answers - situational
, List generations in order from oldest to youngest - Answers - Veterans
Baby Boomers
Generation X
Millennials
What generation?
Sacrifice and hard work are rewarded - Answers - veteran
Benner's stages in order - Answers - Stage I, Novice
Stage II, Advanced beginner
Stage III, Competent
Stage IV, Proficient
Stage V, Expert
What is line authority? - Answers - Power to direct subordinates
What is staff authority? - Answers - Power to provide advice and support, but not assign
tasks
What is authority? - Answers - The power to command others and direct their work
What is responsibility? - Answers - being accountable for meeting personal or
organizational objectives
What Benner stage?
No experience; performance is limited and inflexible; governed by context free rules -
Answers - Novice
What Benner stage?
marginally acceptable performance; has experienced enough real experiences to make
judgments about them - Answers - Advanced Beginner
What Benner stage?
Can organize and plan; differentiates important factors from less important factors -
Answers - Competent
What Benner stage?
sees situation as whole; focuses on long term goals uses maxims as guides - Answers -
proficient
VERIFIED ANSWERS 2026
Exam 1
Integrity Definition - Answers - Adherance to a strict moral code
What type of commitment?
Identification with and involvement in profession - Answers - Affective
What type of commitment?
Feeling of obligation to continue in profession - Answers - Normative
What type of commitment?
Awareness of costs associated with leaving profession - Answers - Continuance
What type of commitment?
Not inclined to promote profession - Answers - Continuance
What type of commitment?
Satisfying experience; strong desire to continue in the profession; involved - Answers -
Affective
What type of commitment?
develops as a result of a positive experience or having benefits - Answers - Normative
What type of commitment?
A nurse who enters the field because of a personal or family experience - Answers -
Normative
What type of commitment?
in the field for money and job security - Answers - Continuance
Order of the Stages of Commitment Development - Answers - First stage: exploratory
Second stage: testing
Third stage: passionate
,Fourth stage: quiet and bored
Final stage: integrated
What Stage of Commitment Development?
looking at positive effects; nursing students getting their scrubs - Answers - exploratory
What Stage of Commitment Development?
discover negative elements of the profession and decide whether or not it is worth it -
Answers - testing
What Stage of Commitment Development?
synthesizing the positive and negative stages; willing to commit to the profession;
become involved in SNA - Answers - passionate
What Stage of Commitment Development?
settling into the humdrum routine of the nursing program; middle to late into the nursing
programs - Answers - quiet and bored
What Stage of Commitment Development?
synthesize positive and negative into a complex, flexible, enduring form of commitment;
commitment is habit; excited to take NCLEX - Answers - integrated
6 ways to manage stress - Answers - -Relaxation and exercise
-Assertiveness (learn to say no)
-Accept errors and failures as learning experiences
-Accept what cannot be changed
-Get involved in organizations
-Counseling
Reasons someone may be an informal leader - Answers - seniority, age, special
abilities
Characteristics of a leader - Answers - productive, efficient, charismatic, informed,
articulate, self aware, confident
What type of leader?
Believes that individuals are externally motivated, incapable of making independent
decisions - Answers - Autocratic (authoritarian)
What type of leader?
,high productivity; group may feel secure but needs for creativity and autonomy are not
met - Answers - autocratic
What type of leader?
Most effective; quick and efficient - Answers - autocratic
What type of leader?
Leader as catalyst, facilitator - Answers - democratic (participative, consultive)
What type of leader?
group productivity and satisfaction are high - Answers - democratic
What type of leader?
assumes group is intrinsically motivated, and capable of making their own decisions -
Answers - democratic
What type of leader?
Hands-off approach; Presupposes group is internally motivated - Answers - laisse-faire
What type of leader?
effective for groups with both personal and professional maturity; leader acts as a
resource - Answers - laisse-faire
What type of leader?
Relies on organization's rules, policies, procedures - Answers - bureaucratic
What type of leader?
impersonal; does not trust themselves - Answers - bureaucratic
What type of leader?
Flexible in task, relationship behaviors; Considers staff's abilities - Answers - situational
What type of leader?
Knows nature of task to be done; Is sensitive to context in which task takes place -
Answers - situational
, List generations in order from oldest to youngest - Answers - Veterans
Baby Boomers
Generation X
Millennials
What generation?
Sacrifice and hard work are rewarded - Answers - veteran
Benner's stages in order - Answers - Stage I, Novice
Stage II, Advanced beginner
Stage III, Competent
Stage IV, Proficient
Stage V, Expert
What is line authority? - Answers - Power to direct subordinates
What is staff authority? - Answers - Power to provide advice and support, but not assign
tasks
What is authority? - Answers - The power to command others and direct their work
What is responsibility? - Answers - being accountable for meeting personal or
organizational objectives
What Benner stage?
No experience; performance is limited and inflexible; governed by context free rules -
Answers - Novice
What Benner stage?
marginally acceptable performance; has experienced enough real experiences to make
judgments about them - Answers - Advanced Beginner
What Benner stage?
Can organize and plan; differentiates important factors from less important factors -
Answers - Competent
What Benner stage?
sees situation as whole; focuses on long term goals uses maxims as guides - Answers -
proficient
