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Huston Test Bank
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Chapter 1: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical
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Reasoning:Requisites for successful leadership and management
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1. What statement is true regarding decision making?
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A) It is an analysis of a situation
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B) It is closely related to evaluation
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C) It involves choosing between courses of action
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D) It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem
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Ans: C yu
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B) Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
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C) Its failure to gather sufficient data
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D) Its failure to evaluate alternatives
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B) Decisions are greatly influenced by each persons value system
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D) Past experience has little to do with the quality of the decision
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C) Our values remain unchanged over time
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D) Our values often collide with one another
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Ans:D
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,Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing 10th Edition Marquis
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Huston Test Bank
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Chapter 1: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical
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Reasoning:Requisites for successful leadership and management
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1. What statement is true regarding decision making?
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A) It is an analysis of a situation
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B) It is closely related to evaluation
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C) It involves choosing between courses of action
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D) It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem
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Ans: C yu
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Decision making is a complex cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular
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B) Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
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C) Its failure to gather sufficient data
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D) Its failure to evaluate alternatives
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The traditional problem-solving model is less effective when time constraints are a
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A) Scientific methods provide identical decisions by different individuals for the same problems
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B) Decisions are greatly influenced by each persons value system
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C) Personal beliefs can be adjusted for when the scientific approach to problem solving is used
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D) Past experience has little to do with the quality of the decision
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Ans: B yu
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Values, life experience, individual preference, and individual ways of thinking will
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The greater the number of alternatives that can be generated by the decision maker, the
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A) Good decision makers are usually right-brain, intuitive thinkers
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B) Effective decision makers are sensitive to the situation and to others
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Good decision makers seem to have antennae that make them particularly sensitive to
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Values, life experience, individual preference, and individual ways of thinking will
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