Subordinate, and Professional Advocacy Appraisal Exam
Assessment Questions and Correct Answers with Clinical
feedback 2025/2026
Which leadership role is associated with advocacy?
A) Create a climate where advocacy and its associated risk-taking are
valued
B) Give subordinates and patients adequate information to make informed
decisions
C) Ensure that rights and values of patients supersede those of the health-
care
Providers
D) Seek appropriate consultation when advocacy results in intrapersonal or
Interpersonal conflict - correct answer Ans: A
Feedback:
A leadership role associated with advocacy is to create a climate where
advocacy and its
Associated risk-taking are valued. Management functions include the
following: give
Subordinates and patients adequate information to make informed
decisions; ensure that
Rights and values of patients supersede those of the health-care providers;
and seek
Appropriate consultation when advocacy results in intrapersonal or
interpersonal
Conflict.
,Which management function is associated with advocacy?
A) Awareness of current legislative efforts affecting nursing practice and
Organizational and unit management
B) Role modeling proactive involvement in health-care policy through both
formal
And informal interactions with the media and legislative representatives
C) Participation in professional nursing organizations and other groups that
seek to
Advance the profession of nursing
D) Assertively advocating on behalf of patients and subordinates when an
Intermediary is necessary - correct answer Ans: A
Feedback:
A management function associated with advocacy is awareness of current
legislative
Efforts affecting nursing practice and organizational and unit management.
Leadership
Roles include the following: role models' proactive involvement in health-
care policy
Through both formal and informal interactions with the media and
legislative
Representatives; participates in professional nursing organizations and
other groups that
Seek to advance the profession of nursing; assertively advocate on behalf
of patients and
Subordinates when an intermediary is necessary.
How can nurses act as advocates? Select all that apply.
A) Helping others make informed decisions
, B) Directly intervening on behalf of others
C) Providing consent to treat for the cognitively impaired patients
D) Making health-care decisions for those who are not able to do so -
correct answer Ans: A, C, D
Feedback:
Nurses may act as advocates by either helping others make informed
decisions, by
Acting as intermediary in the environment, or by directly intervening on
behalf of others.
Advocates do not make decisions or provide consent but rather educate
patients so they
Can be informed.
Which characteristic associated with being a patient increases the need for
advocacy?
Select all that apply.
A) Loss of physical freedom as a result of extended hospitalizations
B) Decreased independence due to physical or psychosocial limitations
C) Physical or psychosocial limitations negatively impacted autonomy
D) Illness tends to make an individual more vulnerable to unethical
activities - correct answer Ans: A, B, C, D
Feedback:
Patient advocacy is necessary because disease almost always results in
decreased
Independence, loss of freedom, and interference with the ability to make
choices
Autonomously. In addition, aging, as well as physical, mental, or social
disability may