Test Bank - The New Leadership Challenge: Creating the Future of Nursing, 7th Edition (Garlock, 2025), Chapter 1-10 | All Chapters

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, BANK NEW LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE CREATING
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THE FUTURE OF NURSING GROSSMAN
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Chapter 1: The Phenomenon of Leadership: Classic/Historical and Contemporary Leadership Theories
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Multiple Choice
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Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
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1. Which leadership theory stresses the significance of the environment or circumstance, notes that the
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leader emerges but is not necessarily chosen, and gives little recognition to followers?
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1. Trait theory t


2. Modern theory t


3. Situational theory t


4. Great man theory t t




2. A new nurse manager on the surgical unit is organizing a team. Which team member will be most
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tbeneficial to achieve a high level of creativity? t t t t t t t


1. A scrub nurse t t


2. A medical nurse t t


3. A surgical nurse t t


4. A circulating nurse
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3. Anurse manager is using idealized influence to motivate staff. Which technique is the nurse
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tmanager using? t


1. Increasing the staff’s confidence and trust t t t t t


2. Teaching the staff to be goal-oriented and responsible t t t t t t t


3. Encouraging creativity and new approaches to problems t t t t t t


4. Assisting staff to continue working hard and self-actualize t t t t t t t




4. Anurse is using the ―4-D‖ cycle of appreciative inquiry. Which ―D‖ should the nurse use?
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1. Daring
2. Design
3. Decisive
4. Determined

5. Which major factors in health care are creating the need for new leaders?
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1. Chaos, uncertainty, unpredictability, and constant change t t t t t


2. Health-care reform, politics, violence, and surplus resources t t t t t t


3. Inferior technology, mergers, acquisitions, and one’s legal scope of practice t t t t t t t t t


4. Too many workers, not enough work, unprepared employees, and technology
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6. In the humanbecoming leading-following model proposed by Parse (2009), what are the three major
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tcomponents?
1. Goals, followers, and resources t t t


2. Strategy, goals, and outcome evaluation t t t t


3. Vision, willingness to risk, and reverence for others t t t t t t t


4. Trust, hierarchical power, and nonjudgmental attitudet t t t t

, t t 7. A theory of leadership proposed by Heifetz (2009) focuses on which component?
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1. The extent to which leaders disturb the equilibrium
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2. The extent to which leaders and followers are friends
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3. The extent to which leaders’traits and personalities are emphasized
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4. The extent to which leaders can recruit followers to embrace their vision
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t t 8. A nurse thinks that a turning schedule will be beneficial for a patient to prevent pressure
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ulcers. Before implementing the turning schedule, the nurse considers using a special mattress.
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Which technique did the nurse use?
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1. Self-awareness
2. Relational transparency t


3. Internalized moral perspective t t


4. Balanced information processing t t




t 9. A nurse identifies a leader as one who is above average height and weight, has superior judgment, is
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decisive, and has self-confidence. Which theory did this nurse use to identify a leader?
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1. Trait theory t


2. Situational theory t


3. Great man theory t t


4. Contemporary leadership theory t t




t 10. According to Max Mckeown, what does innovation + strategy about shaping the future equal?
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1. Leadership
2. Adaptability
3. Positive turbulence t


4. Disturbing equilibrium t




t 11. A nurse is working in an agency that focuses on the six freedoms. In which type of environment is the
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nurse working?
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1. Social model t


2. Complexity theory t


3. Appreciative inquiry t


4. Eastern vs. Western leadership t t t




t 12. Which population group ranked higher on empowering?
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1. Anglo leaders t


2. European leaders t


3. Middle Eastern leaders t t


4. Southeast Asian leaders t t




t 13. According to The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health, which category of nurses
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should be prepared to lead?
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1. All
2. Some
3. None

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t 14. In Phase IV of the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN), which degree should nurses
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obtain?
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1. Vocational
2. Associate’s
3. Bachelor’s
4. Diploma

t 15. Which important aspect of leadership is often overlooked?
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1. Leaving early t


2. Having alone time t t


3. Working with a team t t t


4. Taking vacations with family t t t




t 16. A nurse on a busy unit goes to the park after work and thinks about the day at work before returning
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home. Which authentic leadership trait did the nurse display?
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1. Integrity
2. Self-reflection
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4. Internalized moral perspective t t




t 17. Which is necessary for a leader to be successful in health care’s volatile environment?
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1. Being stagnate t


2. Being inflexible t


3. Enjoying the present t t


4. Always compromising t




t 18. Which nurse has an innovative leadership characteristic?
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1. A nurse with a personal vision
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2. A nurse with faith in the physicians
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3. A nurse with a strong profit/cost focus
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4. A nurse with fierce loyalty to the organization
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t 19. A nurse manager uses an assessment tool to identify eight practices, such as sensing and envisioning, and
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uses observations to identify personality characteristics to identify new nurses for leadership
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positions. Which two theories did the nurse manager blend?
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1. Complexity theory and situational theory t t t t


2. Innovative leadership theory and trait theory t t t t t


3. Appreciative inquiry theory and great man theory t t t t t t


4. Transformational leadership theory and ethical leadership theory t t t t t t




t 20. Which information from a nurse indicates a correct understanding of leadership theories?
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1. Successful leadership is authority. t t t


2. There is a clear definition of leadership. t t t t t t


3. Leadership is multidimensional and multifaceted. t t t t