NUR 412 Test 1 Questions and Solutions

NUR 412 Test 1 Questions and Solutions
In a team nursing delivery model, the nurse would have the following assignment:
1. Total care for a select group of patients
2. Responsibility for a particular function, such as medications
3. An oversight role for care delivered by self and staff
4. A combination role integrating financial and insurance decisions ✅3. An oversight
role for care delivered by self and staff

The type of patient care in which the nurse is caring for the patient and makes the most
decisions is:
1. Functional
2. Team
3. Case management
4. Total patient care ✅4. Total patient care

The most flexible model of patient care, which can include a variety of of skill mixes, is:
1. Team
2. Functional
3. Case management
4. Primary ✅4. Primary

The fundamental elements of any patient care delivery system combine clinical decision
making with:
1. Leadership style
2. Work allocation
3. Nursing productivity
4. Patient acuity ✅2. Work allocation

A decentralized leadership structure would be one that allows decision making:
1. At senior levels
2. By the board of trustees
3. At point of care
4. By all involved ✅3. At point of care

You are a nurse working in a primary care model. You are persistently working during a
snowstorm. Your staff has been cut in half. You need to change the manner in which
you assign patient care. One method of care delivery that might assist is:
1. Case management
2. Team nursing
3. Modular nursing
4. Functional nursing ✅4. Functional nursing

The difference between management and leadership is that leadership:
1. Organizes and assigns staff

, 2. Plans and budgets
3. Motivates and inspires
4. Controls and problem solves ✅3. Motivates and inspires

In a leadership role, a chief nurse executive would:
1. Manage day to day operations
2. Create a long term vision of patient care
3. Work to increase patient satisfaction
4. Supervise the work of all patient care ✅2. Create a long term vision of patient care

Which of the following roles is the charge nurse applying when assigning unlicensed
assistive personnel to tasks such as vital signs, measuring intake and output, and
bathing on the unit?
1. Accountability
2. Responsibility
3. Delegation
4. Prioritization ✅3. Delegation

The nurse manager is planning a meeting with the staff members on group process.
Which of the following functional roles should be discussed.
1. Each group needs an individual with responsibility to coordinate and maintain records
2. An effective team needs a spokesperson
3. The group needs to have equal roles with no leader
4. The team rallies around group leader ✅1. Each group needs an individual with
responsibility to coordinate and maintain records

RACE stands for:
1. Rescue, alarm, contain, extinguish
2. Rescue, act, confine, extinguish
3. React, alert, contain, extinguish
4. Remove, alarm, contain, extinguish ✅1. Rescue, alarm, contain, extinguish

An example of an internal disaster would be:
1. A tornado that does not affect the hospital
2. Flooding of a street near the hospital
3. A tree falling onto a patient unit
4. A hurricane in the next town ✅3. A tree falling onto a patient unit

An example ofthe need for an incident report is:
1. Medical error
2. A patient fall
3. Injury to employee
4 . All of the above ✅4. All of the above