CNUR 301 LEADERSHIP FINAL EXAM REVIEW | COMPLETE NURSING LEADERSHIP STUDY
GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS & EXAM PREP 2026/2027
Strengths-based Leadership - ANS ✔✔- Complements transformational leadership.
- Focus on building strengths rather than weaknesses
- nurses can foster by building quality practice supportive environment
Leadership - ANS ✔✔Process of engaging and influencing others
- Visionary, energetic, inspirational, innovative
- critical thinking, advocacy, and action in all roles
Management - ANS ✔✔About getting the job done and ensuring that people have the
necessary resources to complete
- able to set goals & objectives and ensure they are met within the timeline & budget
- associated with formal authority positions
- competencies important in all levels of nursing
Followership - ANS ✔✔Involves engaging with others who are leading & managing by
contributing to the work that needs to be done.
- Promote team effectiveness by maintaining collaborative work relationships, offering
constructive criticism, and sharing leadership & management responsibilites
- emphasis on interdisciplinary teamwork
Fundamental Ethical Principles (6) - ANS ✔✔1. Beneficence
2. Autonomy
3. Truthfulness
4. Confidentiality
,5. Justice
6. Integrity
Emotional Intelligence - ANS ✔✔Attribute aligned with individuals capacity to know themselves
& others
- Possess social skills, interpersonal competence, psychological maturity, and emotional
awareness
Restructuring - ANS ✔✔Fundamental changes to an organization to achieve greater efficiency or
profit
Span of Control - ANS ✔✔# of staff that directly reports to a leader
- Inc. span impairs a leader's capacity to form close working relationships with staff
Appreciative Inquiry - ANS ✔✔Attribute associated with how we question and problem solve
- Used to engage people in identifying & accentuating positives in a context
Transformational Leadership - ANS ✔✔Process whereby leaders & followers set higher goals
and work together to achieve them
- associated with higher moral values
- 4 (I's): 1) Idealized influence, 2) Intellectual stimulation, 3) Individualized consideration, 4)
Inspirational motivation
- associated with positive outcomes of nurse retention, group cohesion, role clarity, and
effectiveness
- Inc. loyalty, commitment, job satisfaction, morale, performance
- More influential than transactional leaders
-* need to possess both transformational & transactional qualities in a healthcare enviroment
,Transactional Leadership - ANS ✔✔Based on a leadership- follower exchange
- Follower expects rewards in exchange for efforts
- Similar to managers; manage the status quo & day to day operations
- Punitive
- Followers correct errors in a reactive manner
- Work supervised & done by the rules
- Limited job satisfaction
- Low to stable levels of commitment
3 Types:
1. Contingent Reward Leaders- focus on role clarification & making sure that followers have the
appropriate supports to complete work
2. Management by exception active leaders- vigilant & intervene when a problem starts to arise
3. Management by exception passive leaders- only intervene after a mistake has occured
Laissez-faire Leadership - ANS ✔✔Avoid making decisions and abdicate responsibility
Active Follower - ANS ✔✔- Role rather than a person with inherent characteristics
- active not passive
- share same goals/ purpose as leaders
- based on inter-dependency, mutual trust, and respect
Complexity Science - ANS ✔✔Study of complex systems
Considers whole greater than sum of parts
- Holistic view
- actions appear random; patterns emerge overtime
- human systems can adapt well with relaxed controls
, - assets distributed without regard to hierarchy
- think systematically
Authentic Leadership - ANS ✔✔- Know themselves
- Model their values
- Are open & trustworthy
- Inspire trust/ respect in others
-Raise value awareness
CNA Position Statement - ANS ✔✔1. Creating excitement- strategy to engage
2. Develop visions/ imagination
3. Mentorship & succession planning
4. Advocacy in Health public policy
5. Support regulatory frameworks
6. Build policy/ leadership capacity of nursing workforce
7. Sharing expertise
8. Build diversity & equity in the profession
Covey's Characteristics of Effective Leaders (8) - ANS ✔✔1. Engage in lifelong learning
2. Are service oriented
3. Are concerned with the common good
4. Radiate positive energy
5. Believe in other people
6. Lead balanced lives and see life as an adventure
7. Are synergistic
8. Engage in self-renewal
GUIDE, PRACTICE QUESTIONS & EXAM PREP 2026/2027
Strengths-based Leadership - ANS ✔✔- Complements transformational leadership.
- Focus on building strengths rather than weaknesses
- nurses can foster by building quality practice supportive environment
Leadership - ANS ✔✔Process of engaging and influencing others
- Visionary, energetic, inspirational, innovative
- critical thinking, advocacy, and action in all roles
Management - ANS ✔✔About getting the job done and ensuring that people have the
necessary resources to complete
- able to set goals & objectives and ensure they are met within the timeline & budget
- associated with formal authority positions
- competencies important in all levels of nursing
Followership - ANS ✔✔Involves engaging with others who are leading & managing by
contributing to the work that needs to be done.
- Promote team effectiveness by maintaining collaborative work relationships, offering
constructive criticism, and sharing leadership & management responsibilites
- emphasis on interdisciplinary teamwork
Fundamental Ethical Principles (6) - ANS ✔✔1. Beneficence
2. Autonomy
3. Truthfulness
4. Confidentiality
,5. Justice
6. Integrity
Emotional Intelligence - ANS ✔✔Attribute aligned with individuals capacity to know themselves
& others
- Possess social skills, interpersonal competence, psychological maturity, and emotional
awareness
Restructuring - ANS ✔✔Fundamental changes to an organization to achieve greater efficiency or
profit
Span of Control - ANS ✔✔# of staff that directly reports to a leader
- Inc. span impairs a leader's capacity to form close working relationships with staff
Appreciative Inquiry - ANS ✔✔Attribute associated with how we question and problem solve
- Used to engage people in identifying & accentuating positives in a context
Transformational Leadership - ANS ✔✔Process whereby leaders & followers set higher goals
and work together to achieve them
- associated with higher moral values
- 4 (I's): 1) Idealized influence, 2) Intellectual stimulation, 3) Individualized consideration, 4)
Inspirational motivation
- associated with positive outcomes of nurse retention, group cohesion, role clarity, and
effectiveness
- Inc. loyalty, commitment, job satisfaction, morale, performance
- More influential than transactional leaders
-* need to possess both transformational & transactional qualities in a healthcare enviroment
,Transactional Leadership - ANS ✔✔Based on a leadership- follower exchange
- Follower expects rewards in exchange for efforts
- Similar to managers; manage the status quo & day to day operations
- Punitive
- Followers correct errors in a reactive manner
- Work supervised & done by the rules
- Limited job satisfaction
- Low to stable levels of commitment
3 Types:
1. Contingent Reward Leaders- focus on role clarification & making sure that followers have the
appropriate supports to complete work
2. Management by exception active leaders- vigilant & intervene when a problem starts to arise
3. Management by exception passive leaders- only intervene after a mistake has occured
Laissez-faire Leadership - ANS ✔✔Avoid making decisions and abdicate responsibility
Active Follower - ANS ✔✔- Role rather than a person with inherent characteristics
- active not passive
- share same goals/ purpose as leaders
- based on inter-dependency, mutual trust, and respect
Complexity Science - ANS ✔✔Study of complex systems
Considers whole greater than sum of parts
- Holistic view
- actions appear random; patterns emerge overtime
- human systems can adapt well with relaxed controls
, - assets distributed without regard to hierarchy
- think systematically
Authentic Leadership - ANS ✔✔- Know themselves
- Model their values
- Are open & trustworthy
- Inspire trust/ respect in others
-Raise value awareness
CNA Position Statement - ANS ✔✔1. Creating excitement- strategy to engage
2. Develop visions/ imagination
3. Mentorship & succession planning
4. Advocacy in Health public policy
5. Support regulatory frameworks
6. Build policy/ leadership capacity of nursing workforce
7. Sharing expertise
8. Build diversity & equity in the profession
Covey's Characteristics of Effective Leaders (8) - ANS ✔✔1. Engage in lifelong learning
2. Are service oriented
3. Are concerned with the common good
4. Radiate positive energy
5. Believe in other people
6. Lead balanced lives and see life as an adventure
7. Are synergistic
8. Engage in self-renewal
