: Developing the Role of Manager
Yoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Role theory has its underpinnings in management theory. Management theories influence
managers’ leadership styles. Which of the following styles would a nurse manager be most
likely ...
Leading and Managing in Nursing 7th Edition Yoder-Wise Test Bank
Chapter 29: Developing the Role of Manager
Yoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Role theory has its underpinnings in management theory. Management theories influence
managers’ leadership styles. Which of the following styles would a nurse manager be most
likely to follow when redesigning the staffing schedule?
a. Humanistic
b. Authoritarian
c. Flexibility
d. Participative
ANS: D
Participative style of leadership allows for the input by the participants involved to have input
to the decision process. This assists in making change easier and is one way a manager uses
this leadership to lead the unit.
TOP: AONE competency: Leadership
2. A nurse manager has worked to bring the staff to participate in and then accept changes in the
unit’s mission, so that downsizing can be avoided. How is the nurse manager using change
theory for this situation?
a. Focusing on past concerns related to the mission
b. Teaching staff members how to self-manage themselves
c. Determining accurately the direction of change in the institution
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ANS: C
The manager is using change theory to have the staff develop and therefore buy into the
changes. Determining the direction of change for the institution allows the manager to work
using change theory to guide staff for changes.
TOP: AONE competency: Leadership
3. The nurse manager, as the leader of the unit’s “customer (client) first” initiative, has asked the
staff nurses to develop and administer a survey to every client before discharge. In asking the
staff nurses to accomplish this task, the nurse manager is demonstrating:
a. accountability.
b. shared leadership.
c. a common purpose.
d. independence in the nursing manager’s role.
ANS: B
Healthy work environments are facilitated by involving staff and others in decision making;
gaining access to information is one characteristic of shared decision making. Shared decision
making enables staff to feel valued in policy development and in directing and leading.
TOP: AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building
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, Leading and Managing in Nursing 7th Edition Yoder-Wise Test Bank
4. A nurse manager is experiencing considerable conflict among staff members because of
weekend staffing coverage. During a called staff meeting, the nurse manager asks the
disgruntled staff to meet as a group and determine the best staffing practices. In doing this, the
nurse manager is using the concept of collaboration to:
a. demonstrate interdependence.
b. depict flexibility and broadmindedness.
c. focus all energies of staff members on a best possible strategy.
d. defuse the possibility that staff members will escalate their discontent when
staffing the unit on weekends.
ANS: C
When collaboration is used to solve a conflict or to create new directions, the energies of all
parties are focused on solving the problem versus defeating the opposing party and creating
the “best possible” versus an “okay” direction. When groups come together and mutual
expectations are discussed and fostered, communication and collaboration are enhanced,
which results in a more structurally empowered work force.
TOP: AONE competency: Communication and Relationship-Building
5. A nurse manager’s responsibility for financial management involves making budgetary
decisions. Budgets that allow the nurse manager to allocate resources at the unit level allow:
a. minimal nurse manager input.
b. limited rationale for budgetary requests.
c. budgetary allocations at the executive nurse level.
d. budgetary decision making at the point-of-service (POS).
ANS: D
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In organizational structures where INGTB.CmakingOMoccurs at the POS, nurse managers are
given some self-control, which includes preparing and implementing a budget that meets the
long- and short-term needs of their unit without requiring hierarchical approval.
TOP: AONE competency: Business Skills
6. The nurse manager is anticipating changes on the unit because of managed care. It is up to the
manager to “sell” the staff on this care concept. A goal of managed care that the staff must
understand is that managed care is:
a. grounded in business theory.
b. useful for long-term patients only.
c. designed to reduce unit resources and staff.
d. not concerned with the best interests of clients.
ANS: A
Managed care combines delivery of needed care with business principles of efficiency and
cost. Nurse managers who know business principles become conduits for ensuring safe,
effective, affordable care.
TOP: AONE competency: Knowledge of the Health Care Environment
7. The hospital administrator approves a case management position for a new rehabilitation unit
to help reduce costs. In developing the job description, the nurse manager understands that a
key element of case management is:
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