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Test Bank
Leadership and Nursing Care Management 8th Edition.
By M. Lindell Joseph, Diane Huber.
(Fully Covered Chapters 1-27| Verified Questions & Answers with Rationales)
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BE
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Table of Contents:
Part I: Leadership
Chapter 1. Leadership and Management Principles
Chapter 2. Change and Innovation
Chapter 3. Organizational Climate and Culture
Part II: Professionalism
Chapter 4. Managerial Decision Making
Chapter 5. Managing Time and Stress
Chapter 6. Legal and Ethical Issues
Part III: Communication and Relationship Building
Chapter 7. Communication Leadership
Chapter 8. Team Building and Working With Effective Groups
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Chapter 9. Delegation in Nursing
Chapter 10. Power and Conflict LE
Chapter 11. Workplace Diversity
Part IV: Knowledge of the Health Care Environment
Chapter 12. Organizational Structure
ST
Chapter 13. Decentralization and Shared Governance
Chapter 14. Strategic Management
Chapter 15. Professional Practice Models
BE
Chapter 16. Case and Population Case Management
Chapter 17. Evidence-Based Practice: Strategies for Nurse Leaders
Chapter 18. Quality and Safety
Chapter 19. Measuring and Managing Outcomes
Part V: Business Skills
Chapter 20. Prevention of Workplace Violence
Chapter 21. Confronting the Nursing Shortage
Chapter 22. Staffing and Scheduling
Chapter 23. Budgeting, Productivity, and Costing out Nursing
Chapter 24. Performance Appraisal
Chapter 25. All-Hazards Disaster Preparedness
Chapter 26. Data Management and Clinical Informatics
Chapter 27. Marketing
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Chapter 01: Leadership and Management Principles
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Leadership is best defined as:
a. an interpersonal process of participating by encouraging fellowship.
b. delegation of authority and responsibility and the coordination of activities.
c. inspiring people to accomplish goals through support and confidence building.
d. the integration of resources through planning, organizing, and directing.
CORRECT ANSWER: C
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring confidence and
support among followers.
C
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
LE
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
2. A medical-surgical unit reports higher rates of patient satisfaction coupled with high rates of
staff satisfaction and productivity. Which of the following is attributed to the data findings?
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a. Effective leadership
b. Management involvement
BE
c. Mentoring
d. Rewards and recognition
CORRECT ANSWER: A
Effective leadership is important in nursing because of the impact on nurses’ work lives, it
being a stabilizing influence during change, and for nurses’ productivity and quality of care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
3. A staff registered nurse (RN) is leading a multidisciplinary clinical pathway team in the
development of care for patients with total knee replacement. Which of the following statements
exemplifies leadership behaviors in a clinical pathway team meeting?
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a. ―Nursing is responsible for pain control of the total knee replacement patient.
b. ―Our pharmacist has provided some excellent pain control literature.
c. ―Physical therapy’s expertise is in rehabilitation, not pain control.
d. ―Total knee replacement patients require optimal pain control.
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring confidence and
support among followers. The correct answer is supportive of a team member’s work and depicts
some skill at interpersonal relationships.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
C
4. Which of the following is true of management activities?
a.
b.
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Inspiring a vision is a management function.
Management is focused on task accomplishment.
c. Management is more focused on human relationships.
ST
d. Management is more important than leadership.
CORRECT ANSWER: B
BE
Management is focused on task accomplishment.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
5. During a staff meeting, a group of RNs has complained that medications are not arriving to the
unit in a timely manner. The nurse manager suggests that the group resolve this issue through the
development and work of a multidisciplinary team led by one of these RNs. This scenario
demonstrates:
a. adaptation.
b. empowerment.
c. flexibility.
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Test Bank
Leadership and Nursing Care Management 8th Edition.
By M. Lindell Joseph, Diane Huber.
(Fully Covered Chapters 1-27| Verified Questions & Answers with Rationales)
C
LE
ST
BE
Page | 1
, BESTLEC
Table of Contents:
Part I: Leadership
Chapter 1. Leadership and Management Principles
Chapter 2. Change and Innovation
Chapter 3. Organizational Climate and Culture
Part II: Professionalism
Chapter 4. Managerial Decision Making
Chapter 5. Managing Time and Stress
Chapter 6. Legal and Ethical Issues
Part III: Communication and Relationship Building
Chapter 7. Communication Leadership
Chapter 8. Team Building and Working With Effective Groups
C
Chapter 9. Delegation in Nursing
Chapter 10. Power and Conflict LE
Chapter 11. Workplace Diversity
Part IV: Knowledge of the Health Care Environment
Chapter 12. Organizational Structure
ST
Chapter 13. Decentralization and Shared Governance
Chapter 14. Strategic Management
Chapter 15. Professional Practice Models
BE
Chapter 16. Case and Population Case Management
Chapter 17. Evidence-Based Practice: Strategies for Nurse Leaders
Chapter 18. Quality and Safety
Chapter 19. Measuring and Managing Outcomes
Part V: Business Skills
Chapter 20. Prevention of Workplace Violence
Chapter 21. Confronting the Nursing Shortage
Chapter 22. Staffing and Scheduling
Chapter 23. Budgeting, Productivity, and Costing out Nursing
Chapter 24. Performance Appraisal
Chapter 25. All-Hazards Disaster Preparedness
Chapter 26. Data Management and Clinical Informatics
Chapter 27. Marketing
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Chapter 01: Leadership and Management Principles
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Leadership is best defined as:
a. an interpersonal process of participating by encouraging fellowship.
b. delegation of authority and responsibility and the coordination of activities.
c. inspiring people to accomplish goals through support and confidence building.
d. the integration of resources through planning, organizing, and directing.
CORRECT ANSWER: C
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring confidence and
support among followers.
C
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
LE
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
2. A medical-surgical unit reports higher rates of patient satisfaction coupled with high rates of
staff satisfaction and productivity. Which of the following is attributed to the data findings?
ST
a. Effective leadership
b. Management involvement
BE
c. Mentoring
d. Rewards and recognition
CORRECT ANSWER: A
Effective leadership is important in nursing because of the impact on nurses’ work lives, it
being a stabilizing influence during change, and for nurses’ productivity and quality of care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
3. A staff registered nurse (RN) is leading a multidisciplinary clinical pathway team in the
development of care for patients with total knee replacement. Which of the following statements
exemplifies leadership behaviors in a clinical pathway team meeting?
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a. ―Nursing is responsible for pain control of the total knee replacement patient.
b. ―Our pharmacist has provided some excellent pain control literature.
c. ―Physical therapy’s expertise is in rehabilitation, not pain control.
d. ―Total knee replacement patients require optimal pain control.
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring confidence and
support among followers. The correct answer is supportive of a team member’s work and depicts
some skill at interpersonal relationships.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
C
4. Which of the following is true of management activities?
a.
b.
LE
Inspiring a vision is a management function.
Management is focused on task accomplishment.
c. Management is more focused on human relationships.
ST
d. Management is more important than leadership.
CORRECT ANSWER: B
BE
Management is focused on task accomplishment.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
5. During a staff meeting, a group of RNs has complained that medications are not arriving to the
unit in a timely manner. The nurse manager suggests that the group resolve this issue through the
development and work of a multidisciplinary team led by one of these RNs. This scenario
demonstrates:
a. adaptation.
b. empowerment.
c. flexibility.
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