Nurse Leadership Practice Questions Exam 1 2025
1. What statement is true regarding decision making?
A) It is an analysis of a situation
B) It is closely related to evaluation
C) It involves choosing between courses of action
D) It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem - ANSAns: C
Feedback: Decision making is a complex cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular course of
action. Problem solving is part of decision making and is a systematic process that focuses on analyzing a
difficult situation. Critical thinking, sometimes referred to as reflective thinking, is related to evaluation and has
a broader scope than decision making and problem solving.
1. Which is the first step in the time management process?
A. Completing the highest priority task
B. Allowing enough time for sufficient daily planning
C. Reprioritizing based on new information received
D. Delegating work that cannot be accomplished in a day - ANSAns: B
Feedback: Daily planning is essential if the manager is to manage by efficiency rather than by crisis. The
remaining options are steps that occur after that planning.
1. Which represents the management functions that are incorporated into the management process?
A) Planning, directing, organizing, staffing, and evaluating
B) Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling
C) Organizing, planning, staffing, directing, and evaluating
D) Organizing, staffing, planning, implementing, and controlling - ANSAns: B
Feedback:
,Management functions include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. These are incorporated
into what is known as the management process.
10. How do administrative managers make the majority of their decisions?
A) After gathering all the facts
B) In a manner good enough to solve the problem
C) In a rational, logical manner
D) After generating all the alternatives possible - ANSAns: B
Feedback:
Many managers make decisions that are just "good enough" because of lack of time,
energy, or creativity to generate a number of alternatives. This is also called "satisficing." Most people make
decisions too quickly and fail to systematically examine a problem or its alternatives for solution.
10. Which statement depicts leadership?
A) A leadership position is assigned
B) A leadership position carries a legitimate source of power
C) Members of a group will follow a person in a leadership position only by choice
D) Leadership requires meeting organizational goals - ANSAns: C
Feedback:
A leader is the person who guides direction, opinion, and course of action without having an assigned position
within the formal organization and so people choose to follow them. The other options are not accurate
descriptions of leadership
10. Which technique will help the manager prioritize?
A. Doing "trivial" items first to get them out of the way
B. Putting some items in the "don't do" category
,C. "Breaking of" overwhelming tasks
D. "Delegating" the most important things to someone else - ANSAns: B
Feedback: The "don't do" list contains items that will take care of themselves, are already outdated, or are best
accomplished by someone else. In the case of items that are best done by someone else, the manager should
pass these along in a timely fashion. None of the remaining options address prioritization.
11. Gardner states that integrated leaders-managers distinguish themselves from more traditional managers in
six ways. Which is a distinguishing trait of a traditional manager rather than an integrated leader-manager?
A) They are politically astute
B) They look outward, toward the larger organization
C) They extend influence only to their own group
D) They emphasize vision, values, and motivation - ANSAns: C
Feedback:
Traditional managers influence those in their own groups while integrated leaders influence others beyond
their own group. The remaining options represent traits that may be shared by both types.
11. What needs to be considered in evaluating the quality of one's decisions?
A) Is evaluation necessary when using a good decision-making model?
B) Can evaluation be eliminated if the problem is resolved?
C) Will the effectiveness of the decision maker be supported?
D) Will the evaluation be helpful in increasing one's decision-making skills? - ANSAns: D
Feedback:
The evaluation phase is necessary to find out more about one's ability as a decision
maker and to find out where the decision making was faulty.
, 12. What concept does early leadership-theory development suggest?
A) Leadership is a process of influencing others within an organizational culture
B) The interactive relationship between the leader and the follower is significant
C) Some are born to lead, whereas others are born to be led
D) Vision and empowerment are two of the most critical leadership skills - ANSAns: C
Feedback:
Early leadership theorists focused on broad conceptualizations of leadership that assumed that people have
certain characteristics or personality traits that make them better leaders than others. The remaining options
do not describe a concept suggested by early leadership-theory development.
12. Which statement concerning the role of the powerful in organizational decision making
is true?
A) They exert little influence on decisions that are made
B) They make decisions made that are in congruence with their own values
C) They allow others to make the decisions however they wish
D) They make all the important decisions with consideration to others - ANSAns: B
Feedback:
Not only does the preference of the powerful influence decisions of others in the
organization, but the powerful are also able to inhibit the preferences of the less
powerful. Powerful people in organizations are more likely to have decisions made that
are congruent with their own preferences and values.
13. One of the nurses on the unit said, "Male patients have a low threshold for pain." This is
an example of what type of illogical thinking?
A) Affirming the consequences
1. What statement is true regarding decision making?
A) It is an analysis of a situation
B) It is closely related to evaluation
C) It involves choosing between courses of action
D) It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem - ANSAns: C
Feedback: Decision making is a complex cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular course of
action. Problem solving is part of decision making and is a systematic process that focuses on analyzing a
difficult situation. Critical thinking, sometimes referred to as reflective thinking, is related to evaluation and has
a broader scope than decision making and problem solving.
1. Which is the first step in the time management process?
A. Completing the highest priority task
B. Allowing enough time for sufficient daily planning
C. Reprioritizing based on new information received
D. Delegating work that cannot be accomplished in a day - ANSAns: B
Feedback: Daily planning is essential if the manager is to manage by efficiency rather than by crisis. The
remaining options are steps that occur after that planning.
1. Which represents the management functions that are incorporated into the management process?
A) Planning, directing, organizing, staffing, and evaluating
B) Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling
C) Organizing, planning, staffing, directing, and evaluating
D) Organizing, staffing, planning, implementing, and controlling - ANSAns: B
Feedback:
,Management functions include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. These are incorporated
into what is known as the management process.
10. How do administrative managers make the majority of their decisions?
A) After gathering all the facts
B) In a manner good enough to solve the problem
C) In a rational, logical manner
D) After generating all the alternatives possible - ANSAns: B
Feedback:
Many managers make decisions that are just "good enough" because of lack of time,
energy, or creativity to generate a number of alternatives. This is also called "satisficing." Most people make
decisions too quickly and fail to systematically examine a problem or its alternatives for solution.
10. Which statement depicts leadership?
A) A leadership position is assigned
B) A leadership position carries a legitimate source of power
C) Members of a group will follow a person in a leadership position only by choice
D) Leadership requires meeting organizational goals - ANSAns: C
Feedback:
A leader is the person who guides direction, opinion, and course of action without having an assigned position
within the formal organization and so people choose to follow them. The other options are not accurate
descriptions of leadership
10. Which technique will help the manager prioritize?
A. Doing "trivial" items first to get them out of the way
B. Putting some items in the "don't do" category
,C. "Breaking of" overwhelming tasks
D. "Delegating" the most important things to someone else - ANSAns: B
Feedback: The "don't do" list contains items that will take care of themselves, are already outdated, or are best
accomplished by someone else. In the case of items that are best done by someone else, the manager should
pass these along in a timely fashion. None of the remaining options address prioritization.
11. Gardner states that integrated leaders-managers distinguish themselves from more traditional managers in
six ways. Which is a distinguishing trait of a traditional manager rather than an integrated leader-manager?
A) They are politically astute
B) They look outward, toward the larger organization
C) They extend influence only to their own group
D) They emphasize vision, values, and motivation - ANSAns: C
Feedback:
Traditional managers influence those in their own groups while integrated leaders influence others beyond
their own group. The remaining options represent traits that may be shared by both types.
11. What needs to be considered in evaluating the quality of one's decisions?
A) Is evaluation necessary when using a good decision-making model?
B) Can evaluation be eliminated if the problem is resolved?
C) Will the effectiveness of the decision maker be supported?
D) Will the evaluation be helpful in increasing one's decision-making skills? - ANSAns: D
Feedback:
The evaluation phase is necessary to find out more about one's ability as a decision
maker and to find out where the decision making was faulty.
, 12. What concept does early leadership-theory development suggest?
A) Leadership is a process of influencing others within an organizational culture
B) The interactive relationship between the leader and the follower is significant
C) Some are born to lead, whereas others are born to be led
D) Vision and empowerment are two of the most critical leadership skills - ANSAns: C
Feedback:
Early leadership theorists focused on broad conceptualizations of leadership that assumed that people have
certain characteristics or personality traits that make them better leaders than others. The remaining options
do not describe a concept suggested by early leadership-theory development.
12. Which statement concerning the role of the powerful in organizational decision making
is true?
A) They exert little influence on decisions that are made
B) They make decisions made that are in congruence with their own values
C) They allow others to make the decisions however they wish
D) They make all the important decisions with consideration to others - ANSAns: B
Feedback:
Not only does the preference of the powerful influence decisions of others in the
organization, but the powerful are also able to inhibit the preferences of the less
powerful. Powerful people in organizations are more likely to have decisions made that
are congruent with their own preferences and values.
13. One of the nurses on the unit said, "Male patients have a low threshold for pain." This is
an example of what type of illogical thinking?
A) Affirming the consequences
