7/24/25, 12:02 AM NURS414 midterm
NURS 414 LEADERSHIP MIDTERM EXAM NEWEST
VERSION 2025-2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS \VERIFIED
ANSWERS \LATEST UPDATE
Leadership is the process of influencing people by
what is leadership?
providing purpose, direction, and motivation to
accomplish the mission and improve the organization.
all nurses are leaders
- each day we lead patients, families, unit committes,
who are nurse leaders?
interdisciplinary rounds, and more
- transforming healthcare starts at the bedside
shamian, previous chief nurse of canada
- vision at pt care level
- passion
- strong decision maker
the leadership jigsaw: what
- team builder
must you have to be a
- integrity
good leader? (Judith
- willing to admit a mistake
Shamian)
- able to listen
- coordinate care effectively with others --> nursing is the only
24/7 job
leadership domain: canadian - collaborate with other HCPs
- advocate for healthcare environments, including safe working
association of schools of
conditions
nursing
- advocate for social justice change and health equity
- contribute to team decision making
- incorporate HC policies to provide and improve care
- participate in maintaining a safe workplace
- recognize the impact of organizational culture and enhance it's
quality
- demonstrate self awareness through reflective practice and
solitiation of feedback
CNO entry-to-practice
- take action to support culturally safe practice environments
competencies: leader (#6) (calls to action TRC)
- use and allocate resources wisely
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- provide constructive feedback to promote
professional growth of other members of the HC team
- demonstrate knowledge of HC system and its
impact on client care and professional practice
- adapts practice to meet client care needs with a continually
changing HC system
- critical thinking, aciton, and advocacy
- shared responsibility
- leadership and amangement skills co-exist as interdependent
CNA: nursing leadership skill sets
- essential determinant of vibrant professional work environments
- encompasses mentoring, coaching, supporting,
rewarding, and attracting other leaders
- diversity of causes: difficult to know which one you
want to follow, can lead to burnout
leadership challenges - keeping people's attention for an extended period of time is
impossible
- when you're new you start at the bottom
- ability to adapt within complex systems
- better patient advocate
- understand challenges of speaking up --> standing
up and speaking alone is difficult
- become innovators and influences
importance of leadership
growth for you - facilitate effective teamwork
- influence positive work culture
- provide professional example
- develop confidence when speaking out
- new graduates need to enter practice settings with leadership
capabilities
- leadership skills require experience, well developed
importance of leadership opportunities of refleciton, and application to
development
practice
- not all nurses begin their career with thoughts of
becoming a leader: must become a leader through
working in the healthcare system
- leadership from nurses is needed at every level and across all
settings
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framework that shows five
leadership domains for effective
healthcare leadership
LEADS in a Caring
Environment Framework L lead self
E engage
others A
achieve
results
D develop coalitions
S systems transformation
being (who): self awareness, self management, character
caring (why): commitment to organizations vision
LEADS in a caring and mission, service, health, patients
environment: building doing (how): engage others, achieve results, develop
blocks
coalitions, transform systems being + caring + doing =
effective leadership
leading self is the foundation for all otehr leadership growth
- need to look internally for sense of duty, careful thought, and
LEADS: lead self respect for others
- reflect internally on what is important in your role
- demonstrate that purpose in everything you do: act in
a way that aligns with your intentions otherwise they
mean nothing
1. self-awareness
2. manage themselves
lead self capabilities
3. develop themselves
4. demonstrate character
- ability to reflect on one's own thoughts, feelings, and actions
lead self capabilities: self- - self-aware of deep seated motives, emotions, beliefs, and
awareness assumptions
- understand our implicit biases in order to be able to understand
and alter them
ways to enhance self- - listen to all perspectives
reflection and self- - ask for feedback
awareness
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take responsibility for own performance and health
3 elements
- emotional intelligence: manage both expression and experience
lead self capability: managing of emotions
ourselves
- productive leadership mindset: consciously adopt a
mindset that can balance the complex demands of
leadership - embrace chaos
- generate life balance: successfully change,
adapt, overcome, and cope with unexpected
setbacks and general life challenges
- know your personality, strengths, and limitations
- develop soft skills: motivation, ocmmunication
lead self capability: develop skills, team management, confidence, versatility,
self
reliability, and emotional intellience
- engage in life long learning: mindset where every
experience, opportunity, change, situation,
challenge, and conflict is seen as an opportunity to
learn
act with personal integrity
- consistency in words and actions
- consistency in adversity
- being true to oneself
- display moral/ ethical behaviour
lead self capability:
demonstrate character exhibit emotional resiliency
- ability to bounce back from setbacks and overcome adversity
- cope well with high levels of ongoing change and constant
pressure
- change and adjust old habits that may be dysfunctional
emotional intelligence the ability to reason about emotions and to use emotions to
enhance reasoning
1. self-awareness: know your emotions and recognize their impact
on relationships
2. self management: manage your emotions
3. self management: motivate yourself to make change
components of emotional 4. social awareness: recognize and understand other
intelligence
people's emotions through social awareness, have
empathy for others
5. relationship management: manage relationships
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NURS 414 LEADERSHIP MIDTERM EXAM NEWEST
VERSION 2025-2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS \VERIFIED
ANSWERS \LATEST UPDATE
Leadership is the process of influencing people by
what is leadership?
providing purpose, direction, and motivation to
accomplish the mission and improve the organization.
all nurses are leaders
- each day we lead patients, families, unit committes,
who are nurse leaders?
interdisciplinary rounds, and more
- transforming healthcare starts at the bedside
shamian, previous chief nurse of canada
- vision at pt care level
- passion
- strong decision maker
the leadership jigsaw: what
- team builder
must you have to be a
- integrity
good leader? (Judith
- willing to admit a mistake
Shamian)
- able to listen
- coordinate care effectively with others --> nursing is the only
24/7 job
leadership domain: canadian - collaborate with other HCPs
- advocate for healthcare environments, including safe working
association of schools of
conditions
nursing
- advocate for social justice change and health equity
- contribute to team decision making
- incorporate HC policies to provide and improve care
- participate in maintaining a safe workplace
- recognize the impact of organizational culture and enhance it's
quality
- demonstrate self awareness through reflective practice and
solitiation of feedback
CNO entry-to-practice
- take action to support culturally safe practice environments
competencies: leader (#6) (calls to action TRC)
- use and allocate resources wisely
/ 1/33
,7/24/25, 12:02 AM NURS414 midterm
- provide constructive feedback to promote
professional growth of other members of the HC team
- demonstrate knowledge of HC system and its
impact on client care and professional practice
- adapts practice to meet client care needs with a continually
changing HC system
- critical thinking, aciton, and advocacy
- shared responsibility
- leadership and amangement skills co-exist as interdependent
CNA: nursing leadership skill sets
- essential determinant of vibrant professional work environments
- encompasses mentoring, coaching, supporting,
rewarding, and attracting other leaders
- diversity of causes: difficult to know which one you
want to follow, can lead to burnout
leadership challenges - keeping people's attention for an extended period of time is
impossible
- when you're new you start at the bottom
- ability to adapt within complex systems
- better patient advocate
- understand challenges of speaking up --> standing
up and speaking alone is difficult
- become innovators and influences
importance of leadership
growth for you - facilitate effective teamwork
- influence positive work culture
- provide professional example
- develop confidence when speaking out
- new graduates need to enter practice settings with leadership
capabilities
- leadership skills require experience, well developed
importance of leadership opportunities of refleciton, and application to
development
practice
- not all nurses begin their career with thoughts of
becoming a leader: must become a leader through
working in the healthcare system
- leadership from nurses is needed at every level and across all
settings
/ 2/33
,7/24/25, 12:02 AM NURS414 midterm
framework that shows five
leadership domains for effective
healthcare leadership
LEADS in a Caring
Environment Framework L lead self
E engage
others A
achieve
results
D develop coalitions
S systems transformation
being (who): self awareness, self management, character
caring (why): commitment to organizations vision
LEADS in a caring and mission, service, health, patients
environment: building doing (how): engage others, achieve results, develop
blocks
coalitions, transform systems being + caring + doing =
effective leadership
leading self is the foundation for all otehr leadership growth
- need to look internally for sense of duty, careful thought, and
LEADS: lead self respect for others
- reflect internally on what is important in your role
- demonstrate that purpose in everything you do: act in
a way that aligns with your intentions otherwise they
mean nothing
1. self-awareness
2. manage themselves
lead self capabilities
3. develop themselves
4. demonstrate character
- ability to reflect on one's own thoughts, feelings, and actions
lead self capabilities: self- - self-aware of deep seated motives, emotions, beliefs, and
awareness assumptions
- understand our implicit biases in order to be able to understand
and alter them
ways to enhance self- - listen to all perspectives
reflection and self- - ask for feedback
awareness
/ 3/33
, 7/24/25, 12:02 AM NURS414 midterm
take responsibility for own performance and health
3 elements
- emotional intelligence: manage both expression and experience
lead self capability: managing of emotions
ourselves
- productive leadership mindset: consciously adopt a
mindset that can balance the complex demands of
leadership - embrace chaos
- generate life balance: successfully change,
adapt, overcome, and cope with unexpected
setbacks and general life challenges
- know your personality, strengths, and limitations
- develop soft skills: motivation, ocmmunication
lead self capability: develop skills, team management, confidence, versatility,
self
reliability, and emotional intellience
- engage in life long learning: mindset where every
experience, opportunity, change, situation,
challenge, and conflict is seen as an opportunity to
learn
act with personal integrity
- consistency in words and actions
- consistency in adversity
- being true to oneself
- display moral/ ethical behaviour
lead self capability:
demonstrate character exhibit emotional resiliency
- ability to bounce back from setbacks and overcome adversity
- cope well with high levels of ongoing change and constant
pressure
- change and adjust old habits that may be dysfunctional
emotional intelligence the ability to reason about emotions and to use emotions to
enhance reasoning
1. self-awareness: know your emotions and recognize their impact
on relationships
2. self management: manage your emotions
3. self management: motivate yourself to make change
components of emotional 4. social awareness: recognize and understand other
intelligence
people's emotions through social awareness, have
empathy for others
5. relationship management: manage relationships
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