ATI NURSING LEADERSHIP PROCTORED EXAM 2 REVISION GUIDE 2022

1. What is the difference between leader and manager? • A manager focus on coordinating resources • The leader focuses on accomplishing goal of the organization • The manager motivates and inspires others • A leader has legitimate authority 2. What is the first step in both the nursing and problem solving process? • Implementing appropriate interventions • Identifying the problem • Gathering information • Considering the consequence of changes 3. Managers who exhibit an authoritative behavioral style are most likely to use which source of power? • Expert • Reward • Informal • Coercive 4. A nurse manager is concerned with restocking the emergency cart, creating the staff schedule, requesting floor stock from pharmacy, and checking the orders on patients charts. Which type of leader accurately describes this nurse? • Contemporary • Transactional • Transformational • Situational 5. A nurse is reading about positive reinforcement with the goal of increasing staff motivation. Which action would demonstrate positive reinforcement? • Every morning at shift change, thank each employee for an excellent job. • Rotate a monthly "employee recognition award" among all employees on the unit. • Wait until the annual performance review to recognize accomplishments. • Give spur-of-the-moment recognition to an employee who has accomplished a goal. 6. A nurse manager wants his nursing unit to be a place where all nurses want to work, where patient satisfaction is high, and care is innovative and interdisciplinary. Staff are encouraged to chair taskforces to improve quality of care and he counsels staff in areas of measuring patient outcomes. Other managers want to mimic this manager's approach to improve their own units. This nurse is which type of leader? • Transformational • Transactional • Authoritative • Laissez faire 7. A manager just finished the last annual performance review of the staff, reviews the unexpected expenditures for the month due to use of agency nurses, and shares the latest quality indicators with the staff nurses. This manager is performing which management function? • Controlling • Planning • Directing • Organizing 8. A consumer is learning about electronic health records at a local fair and states ―i am worried that someone can read my health information and i really don't understand the difference between privacy and confidentiality‖ the nurse provides what as as example of confidentiality? • A teenager who sustains a broken arm and in the emergency department and withholds information about personal use of recreational drugs • A patient wh