TEST BANK FOR LEADERSHIP ROLES AND
MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS AND NURSING
11th EDITION BY MARQUIS HUSTON
Chapter 1: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical
Reasoning: Requisites for Successful Leadership and Management
Chapter 2: Classical Views of Leadership and Management Chapter 3: Twenty-
First-Century Thinking About Leadership and Management
Chapter 4: Ethical Issues
Chapter 5: Legal and Legislative Issues
Chapter 6: Patient, Subordinate, Workplace, and Professional Advocacy
Chapter 7: Organization Planning Chapter 8: Planned Change Chapter 9: Time
Management
Chapter 10: Fiscal Planning and Health-Care Reimbursement Chapter 11:
Career Planning and Development in Nursing Chapter 12: Organization
Structure
Chapter 13: Organization, Political, and Personal Power Chapter 14: Organizing
Patient Care
Chapter 15: Employee Recruitment, Selection, Placement, and Indoctrination
Chapter 16: Educating and Socializing Staff in a Learning Organization Chapter
17: Staffing Needs and Scheduling Policies
Chapter 18: Creating a Motivating Climate
Chapter 19: Organization, Interpersonal, and Group Communication in Team
Building Chapter 20: Delegation
Chapter 21: Conflict, Workplace Violence, and Negotiations
Chapter 22: Collective Bargaining, Unionization, and Employment Laws
Chapter 23: Quality Control in Creating a Culture of Patient Safety Chapter 24:
Performance Appraisal
Chapter 25: Problem Employees: Rule Breakers, Marginal Employees, and the
Chemically or Psychologically Impaired
,TEST BANK FOR LEADERSHIP ROLES AND MANAGEMENT
FUNCTIONS AND NURSING 11th EDITION BY MARQUIS HUSTON
Chapter 1 Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning:
Requisites for successful leadership and management
What statement is true regarding decision making?
It is an analysis of a situation
It is closely related to evaluation
It involves choosing between courses of action
It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem Ans: 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.
What is a weakness of the tradition problem-solving model?
A) Its need for implementation time
B) Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
C) Its failure to gather sufficient data
D) Its failure to evaluate alternatives
Ans: A Feedback:
The traditional problem-solving model is less effective when time constraints are a
consideration. Decision making can occur without the full analysis required in problem
solving. Because problem solving attempts to identify the root problem in situations,
much time and energy are spent on identifying the real problem.
Which of the following statements is true regarding decision making?
,A) Scientific methods provide identical decisions by different individuals for the same
problems
B) Decisions are greatly influenced by each persons value system
C) Personal beliefs can be adjusted for when the scientific approach to problem solving is
used
D) Past experience has little to do with the quality of the decision
Ans: B Feedback:
Values, life experience, individual preference, and individual ways of thinking will
influence a persons decision making. No matter how objective the criteria will be, value
judgments will always play a part in a persons decision making, either consciously or
subconsciously.
is a weakness of the traditional problem-solving model? Page 1
What influences the quality of a decision most often? A) The decision makers immediate
superior
The type of decision that needs to be made
Questions asked and alternatives generated
The time of day the decision is made Ans:
C Feedback:
The greater the number of alternatives that can be generated by the decision maker, the
better the final decision will be. The alternatives generated and the final choices are
limited by each persons value system.
What
A) Good decision makers are usually right-brain, intuitive thinkers
B) Effective decision makers are sensitive to the situation and to others
C) Good decisions are usually made by left-brain, logical thinkers
D) Good decision making requires analytical rather than creative processes
, Ans: B Feedback:
Good decision makers seem to have antennae that make them particularly sensitive to
other
people and situations. Left-brain thinkers are typically better at processing language, logic,
numbers, and sequential ordering, whereas right-brain thinkers excel at nonverbal
ideation and holistic synthesizing.
does knowledge about good decision making lead one to believe?
What
A) The planning process of management
B) The evaluation phase of the executive role
C) One step in the problem-solving process
D) Required to justify the need for scarce items
Ans: C Feedback:
Decision making is a complex, cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular
course of action. Decision making, one step in the problem-solving process, is an
important task that relies heavily on critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills.
is the best definition of decision making? Page 2
If decision making is triggered by a problem with what does it end?
A) An alternative problem
B) A chosen course of action
C) An action that guarantees success
D) A restatement of the solution
Ans: B Feedback:
MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS AND NURSING
11th EDITION BY MARQUIS HUSTON
Chapter 1: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical
Reasoning: Requisites for Successful Leadership and Management
Chapter 2: Classical Views of Leadership and Management Chapter 3: Twenty-
First-Century Thinking About Leadership and Management
Chapter 4: Ethical Issues
Chapter 5: Legal and Legislative Issues
Chapter 6: Patient, Subordinate, Workplace, and Professional Advocacy
Chapter 7: Organization Planning Chapter 8: Planned Change Chapter 9: Time
Management
Chapter 10: Fiscal Planning and Health-Care Reimbursement Chapter 11:
Career Planning and Development in Nursing Chapter 12: Organization
Structure
Chapter 13: Organization, Political, and Personal Power Chapter 14: Organizing
Patient Care
Chapter 15: Employee Recruitment, Selection, Placement, and Indoctrination
Chapter 16: Educating and Socializing Staff in a Learning Organization Chapter
17: Staffing Needs and Scheduling Policies
Chapter 18: Creating a Motivating Climate
Chapter 19: Organization, Interpersonal, and Group Communication in Team
Building Chapter 20: Delegation
Chapter 21: Conflict, Workplace Violence, and Negotiations
Chapter 22: Collective Bargaining, Unionization, and Employment Laws
Chapter 23: Quality Control in Creating a Culture of Patient Safety Chapter 24:
Performance Appraisal
Chapter 25: Problem Employees: Rule Breakers, Marginal Employees, and the
Chemically or Psychologically Impaired
,TEST BANK FOR LEADERSHIP ROLES AND MANAGEMENT
FUNCTIONS AND NURSING 11th EDITION BY MARQUIS HUSTON
Chapter 1 Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning:
Requisites for successful leadership and management
What statement is true regarding decision making?
It is an analysis of a situation
It is closely related to evaluation
It involves choosing between courses of action
It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem Ans: 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.
What is a weakness of the tradition problem-solving model?
A) Its need for implementation time
B) Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
C) Its failure to gather sufficient data
D) Its failure to evaluate alternatives
Ans: A Feedback:
The traditional problem-solving model is less effective when time constraints are a
consideration. Decision making can occur without the full analysis required in problem
solving. Because problem solving attempts to identify the root problem in situations,
much time and energy are spent on identifying the real problem.
Which of the following statements is true regarding decision making?
,A) Scientific methods provide identical decisions by different individuals for the same
problems
B) Decisions are greatly influenced by each persons value system
C) Personal beliefs can be adjusted for when the scientific approach to problem solving is
used
D) Past experience has little to do with the quality of the decision
Ans: B Feedback:
Values, life experience, individual preference, and individual ways of thinking will
influence a persons decision making. No matter how objective the criteria will be, value
judgments will always play a part in a persons decision making, either consciously or
subconsciously.
is a weakness of the traditional problem-solving model? Page 1
What influences the quality of a decision most often? A) The decision makers immediate
superior
The type of decision that needs to be made
Questions asked and alternatives generated
The time of day the decision is made Ans:
C Feedback:
The greater the number of alternatives that can be generated by the decision maker, the
better the final decision will be. The alternatives generated and the final choices are
limited by each persons value system.
What
A) Good decision makers are usually right-brain, intuitive thinkers
B) Effective decision makers are sensitive to the situation and to others
C) Good decisions are usually made by left-brain, logical thinkers
D) Good decision making requires analytical rather than creative processes
, Ans: B Feedback:
Good decision makers seem to have antennae that make them particularly sensitive to
other
people and situations. Left-brain thinkers are typically better at processing language, logic,
numbers, and sequential ordering, whereas right-brain thinkers excel at nonverbal
ideation and holistic synthesizing.
does knowledge about good decision making lead one to believe?
What
A) The planning process of management
B) The evaluation phase of the executive role
C) One step in the problem-solving process
D) Required to justify the need for scarce items
Ans: C Feedback:
Decision making is a complex, cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular
course of action. Decision making, one step in the problem-solving process, is an
important task that relies heavily on critical thinking and clinical reasoning skills.
is the best definition of decision making? Page 2
If decision making is triggered by a problem with what does it end?
A) An alternative problem
B) A chosen course of action
C) An action that guarantees success
D) A restatement of the solution
Ans: B Feedback:
