Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing
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IIll Theory and Application, 11th Edition
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By (Huston, 2024), All Chapters 1 - 25
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Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing
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,TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing
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,Chapter 1 Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll
Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning:Requisites for successful
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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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IIll courseof action. Problem solving is part of decision making and is a systematic process that
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IIll focuseson analyzing a difficult situation. Critical thinking, sometimes referred to as
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IIll reflective thinking, is related to evaluation and has a broader scope than decision making and
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2. B) Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
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4. D) Its failure to evaluate alternatives IIll IIll IIll IIll IIll
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3. Which of the following statements is true regarding decision making?
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1. A) Scientific methods provide identical decisions by different individuals for
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