Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing
Theory and Application, 11th Edition
By (Huston, 2026), All Chapters 1 - 25
Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing
,Chapter 1 Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical
Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning: Requisites for successful
leadership and management
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
ANS: C
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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 sthinking, ssometimes sreferred sto sas sreflective
sthinking, sis srelated sto sevaluation sand shas sa sbroader sscope sthan sdecision smaking sand
sproblem ssolving.
2. What
1. A) sIts sneed sfor simplementation stime
2. B) sIts slack sof sa sstep srequiring sevaluation sof sresults
3. C) sIts sfailure sto sgather ssufficient sdata
4. D) sIts sfailure sto sevaluate salternatives
Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing
, ANS: sA
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sconsideration. sDecision smaking scan soccur swithout sthe sfull sanalysis srequired sin
sproblem ssolving. sBecause sproblem ssolving sattempts sto sidentify sthe sroot sproblem sin
ssituations, smuchstime sand senergy sare sspent son sidentifying sthe sreal sproblem.
3. Which sof sthe sfollowing sstatements sis strue sregarding sdecision smaking?
1. A) sScientific smethods sprovide sidentical sdecisions sby sdifferent sindividuals
sfor sthessame sproblems
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