Potter & Perry Chapter 21 Test Bank
Questions with All Correct Answers
2025-2026.
A registered nurse (RN) is the group leader of practical nurses and nursing assistive personnel.
Which nursing care model is the RN using?
a. Case management
b. Total patient care
c. Primary nursing
d. Team nursing - Answer ANS: D
A nurse is overseeing the care of patients with severe diabetes and patients with heart failure to
improve cost-effectiveness and quality of care. Which nursing care delivery model is the nurse
using?
a. Team nursing
b. Total patient care
c. Primary nursing
d. Case management - Answer ANS: D
A nurse is working in an intensive care unit (critical care). Which type of nursing care delivery
model will this nurse most likely use?
a. Team nursing
b. Total patient care
c. Primary nursing
d. Case-management - Answer ANS: B
A nurse manager discovers that the readmission rate of hospitalized patients is very high on the
hospital unit. The nurse manager desires improved coordination of care and accountability for
cost- effective quality care. Which nursing care delivery model is best suited for these needs?
, d. Case management - Answer ANS: D
A nurse is working in a facility that has fewer directors with managers and staff able to make
shared decisions. In which type of organizational structure is the nurse employed?
a. Delegation
b. Research-based
c. Decentralization
d. Philosophy of care - Answer ANS: C
A staff member verbalizes satisfaction in working on a particular nursing unit because of the
freedom of choice and responsibility for the choices. This nurse highly values which element of
shared decision making?
a. Authority
b. Autonomy
c. Responsibility
d. Accountability - Answer ANS: B
A staff nurse delegates a task to a nursing assistive personnel (NAP), knowing that the NAP has
never performed the task before. As a result, the patient is injured, and the nurse defensively
states that the NAP should have known how to perform such a simple task. Which element of
the decision- making process is the nurse lacking?
a. Authority
b. Autonomy
c. Responsibility
d. Accountability - Answer ANS: D
A nurse manager sent one of the staff nurses on the unit to a conference about new, evidence-
based wound care techniques. The nurse manager asks the staff nurse to prepare a poster to
present at
the next unit meeting, which will be mandatory for all nursing staff on the unit. Which type of
opportunity is the nurse manager providing for the staff?
Questions with All Correct Answers
2025-2026.
A registered nurse (RN) is the group leader of practical nurses and nursing assistive personnel.
Which nursing care model is the RN using?
a. Case management
b. Total patient care
c. Primary nursing
d. Team nursing - Answer ANS: D
A nurse is overseeing the care of patients with severe diabetes and patients with heart failure to
improve cost-effectiveness and quality of care. Which nursing care delivery model is the nurse
using?
a. Team nursing
b. Total patient care
c. Primary nursing
d. Case management - Answer ANS: D
A nurse is working in an intensive care unit (critical care). Which type of nursing care delivery
model will this nurse most likely use?
a. Team nursing
b. Total patient care
c. Primary nursing
d. Case-management - Answer ANS: B
A nurse manager discovers that the readmission rate of hospitalized patients is very high on the
hospital unit. The nurse manager desires improved coordination of care and accountability for
cost- effective quality care. Which nursing care delivery model is best suited for these needs?
, d. Case management - Answer ANS: D
A nurse is working in a facility that has fewer directors with managers and staff able to make
shared decisions. In which type of organizational structure is the nurse employed?
a. Delegation
b. Research-based
c. Decentralization
d. Philosophy of care - Answer ANS: C
A staff member verbalizes satisfaction in working on a particular nursing unit because of the
freedom of choice and responsibility for the choices. This nurse highly values which element of
shared decision making?
a. Authority
b. Autonomy
c. Responsibility
d. Accountability - Answer ANS: B
A staff nurse delegates a task to a nursing assistive personnel (NAP), knowing that the NAP has
never performed the task before. As a result, the patient is injured, and the nurse defensively
states that the NAP should have known how to perform such a simple task. Which element of
the decision- making process is the nurse lacking?
a. Authority
b. Autonomy
c. Responsibility
d. Accountability - Answer ANS: D
A nurse manager sent one of the staff nurses on the unit to a conference about new, evidence-
based wound care techniques. The nurse manager asks the staff nurse to prepare a poster to
present at
the next unit meeting, which will be mandatory for all nursing staff on the unit. Which type of
opportunity is the nurse manager providing for the staff?
