Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing Theory and Application, 11th Edition By (Huston, 2024), All Chapters 1 - 25 Test Bank

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Chapter 1 Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning:Re
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quisites for successful leadership and management
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1. What statement is true regarding decision making?
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A) It is an analysis of a situation
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B) It is closely related to evaluation
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C) It involves choosing between courses of action
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D) It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem Ans:
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Decision making is a complex cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular cour
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seof action. Problem solving is part of decision making and is a systematic process that fo
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cuseson analyzing a difficult situation. Critical thinking, sometimes referred to as reflectiv
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2. What

1. A) Its need for implementation time
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2. B) Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
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3. C) Its failure to gather sufficient data
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4. D) Its failure to evaluate alternatives
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The traditional problem-
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ycan occur without the full analysis required in problem solving. Because problem solving
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attempts to identify the root problem in situations, muchtime and energy are spent on ident
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3. Which of the following statements is true regarding decision making?
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1. A) Scientific methods provide identical decisions by different individuals for t
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, 2. B) Decisions are greatly influenced by each persons value system
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3. C) Personal beliefs can be adjusted for when the scientific approach to proble
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4. D) Past experience has little to do with the quality of the decision
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Values, life experience, individual preference, and individual ways of thinking will influen
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cea persons decision making. No matter how objective the criteria will be, value judgments
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willalways play a part in a persons decision making, either consciously or subconsciously.
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is a weakness of the traditional problem-
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4. What influences the quality of a decision most often? A) The decision makers immedia
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B) The type of decision that needs to be made
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D) The time of day the decision is mad
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The greater the number of alternatives that can be generated by the decision maker, the be
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tterthe final decision will be. The alternatives generated and the final choices are limited b
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5. What

1. A) Good decision makers are usually right-brain, intuitive thinkers
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2. B) Effective decision makers are sensitive to the situation and to others
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3. C) Good decisions are usually made by left-brain, logical thinkers
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4. D) Good decision making requires analytical rather than creative processes
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Good decision makers seem to have antennae that make them particularly sensitive to other
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, people and situations. Left-
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brain thinkers excel at nonverbal ideationand holistic synthesizing.
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does knowledge about good decision making lead one to believe?
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6. What

1. A) The planning process of management
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2. B) The evaluation phase of the executive role
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3. C) One step in the problem-solving process
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4. D) Required to justify the need for scarce items
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Decision making is a complex, cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular co
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urse of action. Decision making, one step in the problem-
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solving process, is an importanttask that relies heavily on critical thinking and clinical rea
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is the best definition of decision making?Pag
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7. If decision making is triggered by a problem with what does it end?
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1. A) An alternative problem
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2. B) A chosen course of action
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3. C) An action that guarantees success
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4. D) A restatement of the solution
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A decision is made when a course of action has been chosen. Problem solving is part of d
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ecision making and is a systematic process that focuses on analyzing a difficult situation.Pr
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oblem solving always includes a decision-making step.
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8. Why do our values often cause personal conflict in decision making?
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