Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing:
Theory and Application
Bessie L. Marquis, and Carol J. Huston
9th Edition
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Chapter 01: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning:
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Requisites for Successful Leadership and Management
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Chapter 02: Classical Views of Leadership and Management
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Chapter 03: Twenty-First-Century Thinking About Leadership and Management
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Chapter 04: Ethical Issues
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Chapter 05: Legal and Legislative Issues
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Chapter 06: Patient, Subordinate, Workplace, and Professional Advocacy
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Chapter 07: Organizational Planning
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Chapter 08: Planned Change
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Chapter 09: Time Management
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Chapter 10: Fiscal Planning
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Chapter 11: Career Planning and Development in Nursing
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Chapter 12: Organizational Structure
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Chapter 13: Organizational, Political, and Personal Power
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Chapter 14:
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Chapter 15:
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Chapterwq 16: wq Socializing and Educating Staff in a Learning Organization
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Chapterwq 17: wq Staffing Needs and Scheduling Policies
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Chapterwq 18: wq Creating a Motivating Climate
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Chapterwq 19: wq Organizational, Interpersonal, and Group Communication
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Chapterwq 20: wq Delegation 133
Chapterwq 21: wq Effective Conflict Resolution and Negotiation
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Chapterwq 22: Collective Bargaining, Unionization, and Employment Laws
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Chapterwq 23: Quality Control
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Chapter 24:
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Chapter 25:
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Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing: Theory and Application, 9th Edition (Marquis, 2018)
Chapter 1: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Re
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asoning: Requisites for Successful Leadership and Management
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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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ANS: C wqwq
Decision making is a complex cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular
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course of action. Problem solving is part of decision making and is a systematic proces
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s that focuses on analyzing a difficult situation. Critical thinking, sometimes referred to
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as reflective thinking, is related to evaluation and has a broader scope than decision
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2. What is a weakness of the traditional problem-solving model?
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a. Its need for implementation time
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b. Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
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c. Its failure to gather sufficient data
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d. Its failure to evaluate alternatives
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ANS: A wqwq
The traditional problem-
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solving. Because problem solving attempts to identify the root problem in situations, m
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uch time and energy are spent on identifying the real problem.
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3. Which of the following statements is true regarding decision making?
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a. Scientific methods provide identical decisions by different individuals for the sa
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b. Decisions are greatly influenced by each person's value system
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c. Personal beliefs can be adjusted for when the scientific approach to prob
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d. Past experience has little to do with the quality of the decision
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ANS: B wqwq
Values, life experience, individual preference, and individual ways of thinking will i
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nfluence a person's decision making. No matter how objective the criteria will be, v
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alue judgments will always play a part in a person's decision making, either consci
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ously or subconsciously.
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4. What influences the quality of a decision most often?
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a. The decision maker's immediate superior
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b. The type of decision that needs to be made
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d. The time of day the decision is made
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The greater the number of alternatives that can be generated by the decision maker, th
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e better the final decision will be. The alternatives generated and the final choices are l
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imited by each person's value system.
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5. What does knowledge about good decision making lead one to believe?
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a. Good decision makers are usually right-brain, intuitive thinkers
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b. Effective decision makers are sensitive to the situation and to others
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c. Good decisions are usually made by left-brain, logical thinkers
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d. Good decision making requires analytical rather than creative processes
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ANS: B wqwq
Good decision makers seem to have antennae that make them particularly sensitive to ot
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her people and situations. Left-
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brain thinkers are typically better at processing language, logic, numbers, and sequential
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ordering, whereas right-
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brain thinkers excel at nonverbal ideation and holistic synthesizing.
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6. What is the best definition of decision making?
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a. The planning process of management
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b. The evaluation phase of the executive role
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c. One step in the problem-solving process
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ANS: C wqwq
Decision making is a complex, cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular
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course of action. Decision making, one step in the problem-
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7. If decision making is triggered by a problem with what does it end?
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a. An alternative problem
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b. A chosen course of action
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c. An action that guarantees success
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d. A restatement of the solution
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ANS: B wqwq
A decision is made when a course of action has been chosen. Problem solving is part
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of decision making and is a systematic process that focuses on analyzing a difficult situ
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ation. Problem solving always includes a decision-making step.
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8. Why do our values often cause personal conflict in decision making?
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a. Some values are not realistic or healthy
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b. Not all values are of equal worth
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c. Our values remain unchanged over time
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d. Our values often collide with one another
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ANS: D wqwq
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