NUR 405 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE & PRACTICE QUESTIONS 2026/2027
Health Promotion - Correct answer ✔✔ is behavior directed toward achieving a greater level of
health. Example: exercise regularly to produce more energetic feeling and higher level of
functioning.
Health promotion includes:
-Encouraging healthy lifestyles
-Creating supportive environments for health
-Strengthening community action
-Reorienting health services
-Building healthy public policy
Health Protection: - Correct answer ✔✔ (i.e. health maintenance) focuses on keeping a current
state of health. Example: exercising regularly to maintain weight
Health Education: - Correct answer ✔✔ designed to effect changes in the knowledge, skill, and
attitudes of individuals, groups, or communities.
Formal Leadership: - Correct answer ✔✔ legitimate authority conferred by an organization
Informal leadership: - Correct answer ✔✔ depends on knowledge, personal skills, and ability to
persuade & influence others
Behavioral Leadership Theory: - Correct answer ✔✔ it assumes that leadership capability can be
learned, rather than being inherent. This theory is based on the principle that behaviors can be
conditioned in a manner that one can have a specific response to specific stimuli
,Transformational Leadership Theory: - Correct answer ✔✔ effecting revolutionary change in
organization through a commitment to organizational goals
Transactionnel Leadership Theory: - Correct answer ✔✔ concerned with the day-to-day
operations of the facility. (more closely related with management)
Trait Leadership Theory: - Correct answer ✔✔ Focused on intrinsic traits of individuals (who or
what leaders are ), based on an assumption that leaders are born!
5 Functions of a Manager: - Correct answer ✔✔ Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling (give special attention to section on establishing performance standards. Making
sure people are adhering to standards and policies)
Leadership: - Correct answer ✔✔ the ability to guide or INFLUENCE the beliefs, opinions, or
behaviors of other persons or groups by combining intrinsic personality traits, skills, and
characteristics of the situation to ACHIEVE DESIRED OUTCOMES.
Management: - Correct answer ✔✔ the coordination of PEOPLE, TIME, AND SUPPLIES to
achieve desired outcome. This is more task oriented. It's about getting the results.
Formal Groups: - Correct answer ✔✔ have a defined membership and a specific purpose. They
may or may not have an official place in the community's organization.
• Learning groups
• Support groups
• Social groups
• Psychotherapy groups
, Informal Groups: - Correct answer ✔✔ the ties between the members are multiple, and the
purposes are unwritten yet understood by members. These groups often form spontaneously
when participants have a common interest or need.
• Shared goals
• Consistent norms
• Motivation
• Communication
5 Stages of Group Development: - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Forming: members become
acquainted with one another and the leader, become oriented to the group, and try to
determine what their behaviors should be in relation to one another and to the goal of the
group.
2. Storming: members begin to express their own individuality, which may run counter to that of
others, and they often express hostility to one another and polarize because of interpersonal
issues.
3. Norming: members start to accept one another; develop some cohesion, norms, and roles;
and become comfortable in expressing their opinions and offering ideas. Members begin to
trust one another and their interaction takes on more depth.
4. Performing: the group uses its interpersonal structure to accomplish its goals, and group
energy is directed toward the task
5. Adjourning: the group engages in separating from one another
Group Roles: Building/Maintenance Roles - Correct answer ✔✔ behaviors that promote
cohesiveness and encourages, support, and mediate group process.
• Follower: seeks and accepts authority or direction of others
• Gatekeeper: controls outsiders access to the group
• Leader: guides and directs group activity
• Maintenance Specialist: provides physical and psychological support for group members,
thereby holding the group together
Health Promotion - Correct answer ✔✔ is behavior directed toward achieving a greater level of
health. Example: exercise regularly to produce more energetic feeling and higher level of
functioning.
Health promotion includes:
-Encouraging healthy lifestyles
-Creating supportive environments for health
-Strengthening community action
-Reorienting health services
-Building healthy public policy
Health Protection: - Correct answer ✔✔ (i.e. health maintenance) focuses on keeping a current
state of health. Example: exercising regularly to maintain weight
Health Education: - Correct answer ✔✔ designed to effect changes in the knowledge, skill, and
attitudes of individuals, groups, or communities.
Formal Leadership: - Correct answer ✔✔ legitimate authority conferred by an organization
Informal leadership: - Correct answer ✔✔ depends on knowledge, personal skills, and ability to
persuade & influence others
Behavioral Leadership Theory: - Correct answer ✔✔ it assumes that leadership capability can be
learned, rather than being inherent. This theory is based on the principle that behaviors can be
conditioned in a manner that one can have a specific response to specific stimuli
,Transformational Leadership Theory: - Correct answer ✔✔ effecting revolutionary change in
organization through a commitment to organizational goals
Transactionnel Leadership Theory: - Correct answer ✔✔ concerned with the day-to-day
operations of the facility. (more closely related with management)
Trait Leadership Theory: - Correct answer ✔✔ Focused on intrinsic traits of individuals (who or
what leaders are ), based on an assumption that leaders are born!
5 Functions of a Manager: - Correct answer ✔✔ Planning
Organizing
Staffing
Directing
Controlling (give special attention to section on establishing performance standards. Making
sure people are adhering to standards and policies)
Leadership: - Correct answer ✔✔ the ability to guide or INFLUENCE the beliefs, opinions, or
behaviors of other persons or groups by combining intrinsic personality traits, skills, and
characteristics of the situation to ACHIEVE DESIRED OUTCOMES.
Management: - Correct answer ✔✔ the coordination of PEOPLE, TIME, AND SUPPLIES to
achieve desired outcome. This is more task oriented. It's about getting the results.
Formal Groups: - Correct answer ✔✔ have a defined membership and a specific purpose. They
may or may not have an official place in the community's organization.
• Learning groups
• Support groups
• Social groups
• Psychotherapy groups
, Informal Groups: - Correct answer ✔✔ the ties between the members are multiple, and the
purposes are unwritten yet understood by members. These groups often form spontaneously
when participants have a common interest or need.
• Shared goals
• Consistent norms
• Motivation
• Communication
5 Stages of Group Development: - Correct answer ✔✔ 1. Forming: members become
acquainted with one another and the leader, become oriented to the group, and try to
determine what their behaviors should be in relation to one another and to the goal of the
group.
2. Storming: members begin to express their own individuality, which may run counter to that of
others, and they often express hostility to one another and polarize because of interpersonal
issues.
3. Norming: members start to accept one another; develop some cohesion, norms, and roles;
and become comfortable in expressing their opinions and offering ideas. Members begin to
trust one another and their interaction takes on more depth.
4. Performing: the group uses its interpersonal structure to accomplish its goals, and group
energy is directed toward the task
5. Adjourning: the group engages in separating from one another
Group Roles: Building/Maintenance Roles - Correct answer ✔✔ behaviors that promote
cohesiveness and encourages, support, and mediate group process.
• Follower: seeks and accepts authority or direction of others
• Gatekeeper: controls outsiders access to the group
• Leader: guides and directs group activity
• Maintenance Specialist: provides physical and psychological support for group members,
thereby holding the group together
