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What aspect of business should E. All of the above
managers emphasize?
Rationale: Control, decision making, analysis, and
A) Decision making results are all crucial elements of successful
B) Analysis management
C) Results
D) Control
E) All of the above
Which is a characteristic of a leader? C. Focus on group process, information gathering,
and feedback
A) Always assigned a position of
authority Rationale: While managers are more often part of a
B) Usually part of a formal formal organization and focus more on result-
organization oriented tasks, leaders tend to focus more on
C) Focus on group process, things such as group process
information gathering, and feedback
D) Focus on decision making and
results
,Which was the focus of Weber's A. Bureaucratic functions
management theory?
Rationale: Weber developed the theory of
A) Bureaucratic functions bureaucratic organizations. Management functions
B) Management functions theory was developed by Fayol. Taylor developed
C) Scientific management scientific management theory and Gulick
D) Activities of management developed activities of management theory
Tell whether the following statement True
is True or False:
Rationale: Trade-offs can be a useful tool to
A characteristic of leadership achieve goals
management is to use trade-offs to
meet goals.
A nurse witnesses another nurse C. Moral distress
providing care without proper hand
hygiene and reports this to the Rationale: Moral distress occurs when the
charge nurse. The charge nurse is individual knows the right thing to do but
friends with the other nurse and organizational constraints make it difficult to take
refuses to take action. This is an the right course of action. With moral uncertainty
example of: or conflict, an individual is unsure which moral
principles or values apply. An ethical dilemma
A) Moral indifference occurs when an individual is being forced to
B) Moral conflict choose between two or more undesirable
C) Moral distress alternatives
D) Ethical dilemma
, Tell whether the following statement B. False
is True or False:
Using an ethical framework of utilitarianism
A nurse manager who makes encourages decision making based on what
decisions based on what will benefit provides the greatest good for the greatest
the majority of the nurses in his or number of people. The intuitionist framework
her charge is using the intuitionism allows the decision maker to review each ethical
ethical framework for decision problem or issue on a case-by-case basis,
making. comparing the relative weights of goals, duties,
and rights
Which is not an element of ethical D. Pragmatism
decision making?
Rationale: The principles of ethical decision making
A) Beneficence include autonomy, beneficence, paternalism, utility,
B) Paternalism justice, truth telling (veracity), fidelity, and
C) Utility confidentiality
D) Pragmatism
Tell whether the following statement A. True
is true or false:
Rationale: The 51 Nurse Practice Acts representing
Nurse practice acts are examples of the 50 states and the District of Columbia are
statutes. examples of statutes. These Nurse Practice Acts
define and limit the practice of nursing, thereby
stating what constitutes authorized practice as well
as what exceeds the scope of authority
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What aspect of business should E. All of the above
managers emphasize?
Rationale: Control, decision making, analysis, and
A) Decision making results are all crucial elements of successful
B) Analysis management
C) Results
D) Control
E) All of the above
Which is a characteristic of a leader? C. Focus on group process, information gathering,
and feedback
A) Always assigned a position of
authority Rationale: While managers are more often part of a
B) Usually part of a formal formal organization and focus more on result-
organization oriented tasks, leaders tend to focus more on
C) Focus on group process, things such as group process
information gathering, and feedback
D) Focus on decision making and
results
,Which was the focus of Weber's A. Bureaucratic functions
management theory?
Rationale: Weber developed the theory of
A) Bureaucratic functions bureaucratic organizations. Management functions
B) Management functions theory was developed by Fayol. Taylor developed
C) Scientific management scientific management theory and Gulick
D) Activities of management developed activities of management theory
Tell whether the following statement True
is True or False:
Rationale: Trade-offs can be a useful tool to
A characteristic of leadership achieve goals
management is to use trade-offs to
meet goals.
A nurse witnesses another nurse C. Moral distress
providing care without proper hand
hygiene and reports this to the Rationale: Moral distress occurs when the
charge nurse. The charge nurse is individual knows the right thing to do but
friends with the other nurse and organizational constraints make it difficult to take
refuses to take action. This is an the right course of action. With moral uncertainty
example of: or conflict, an individual is unsure which moral
principles or values apply. An ethical dilemma
A) Moral indifference occurs when an individual is being forced to
B) Moral conflict choose between two or more undesirable
C) Moral distress alternatives
D) Ethical dilemma
, Tell whether the following statement B. False
is True or False:
Using an ethical framework of utilitarianism
A nurse manager who makes encourages decision making based on what
decisions based on what will benefit provides the greatest good for the greatest
the majority of the nurses in his or number of people. The intuitionist framework
her charge is using the intuitionism allows the decision maker to review each ethical
ethical framework for decision problem or issue on a case-by-case basis,
making. comparing the relative weights of goals, duties,
and rights
Which is not an element of ethical D. Pragmatism
decision making?
Rationale: The principles of ethical decision making
A) Beneficence include autonomy, beneficence, paternalism, utility,
B) Paternalism justice, truth telling (veracity), fidelity, and
C) Utility confidentiality
D) Pragmatism
Tell whether the following statement A. True
is true or false:
Rationale: The 51 Nurse Practice Acts representing
Nurse practice acts are examples of the 50 states and the District of Columbia are
statutes. examples of statutes. These Nurse Practice Acts
define and limit the practice of nursing, thereby
stating what constitutes authorized practice as well
as what exceeds the scope of authority
