Edition Marquis Huston
Test Bank
,Table of Contents
Unit I : The Critical Triad: Decision Making, Management, and Leadership
o Chapter 1: Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning:
Requisites for Successful Leadership and Management
o Chapter 2: Classical Views of Leadership and Management
o Chapter 3: Twenty-First-Century Thinking About Leadership and Management
Unit II: Foundation for Effective Leadership and Management: Ethics, Law, and Advocacy
o Chapter 4: Ethical Issues
o Chapter 5: Legal and Legislative Issues
o Chapter 6: Patient, Subordinate, Workplace, and Professional Advocacy
Unit III: Roles and Functions in Planning
o Chapter 7: Organization Planning
o Chapter 8: Planned Change
o Chapter 9: Time Management
o Chapter 10: Fiscal Planning and Health-Care Reimbursement
o Chapter 11: Career Planning and Development in Nursing
Unit IV: Roles and Functions in Organizing
o Chapter 12: Organization Structure
o Chapter 13: Organization, Political, and Personal Power
o Chapter 14: Organizing Patient Care
Unit V: Roles and Functions in Staffing
o Chapter 15: Employee Recruitment, Selection, Placement, and Indoctrination
o Chapter 16: Educating and Socializing Staff in a Learning Organization
o Chapter 17: Staffing Needs and Scheduling Policies
Unit VI: Roles and Functions in Directing
, o Chapter 18: Creating a Motivating Climate
o Chapter 19: Organization, Interpersonal, and Group Communication in Team Building
o Chapter 20: Delegation
o Chapter 21: Conflict, Workplace Violence, and Negotiations
o Chapter 22: Collective Bargaining, Unionization, and Employment Laws
Unit VII: Roles and Functions in Controlling
o Chapter 23: Quality Control in Creating a Culture of Patient Safety
o Chapter 24: Performance Appraisal
o Chapter 25: Problem Employees: Rule Breakers, Marginal Employees, and the Chemically
or Psychologically Impaired
, Chapter 1 Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning:
Requisites for successful leadership and management
1. What statement is true regarding decision making?
A) It is an analysis of a situation
B) It is closely related to evaluation
C) It involves choosing between courses of action
D) It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem Ans: C
Feedback:
Decision making is a complex cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular course
of action. Problem solving is part of decision making and is a systematic process that focuses
on analyzing a difficult situation. Critical thinking, sometimes referred to as reflective
thinking, is related to evaluation and has a broader scope than decision making and problem
solving.
2. What
1. A) Its need for implementation time
2. B) Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
3. C) Its failure to gather sufficient data
4. D) Its failure to evaluate alternatives
Ans: A
Feedback:
The traditional problem-solving model is less effective when time constraints are a
consideration. Decision making can occur without the full analysis required in problem
solving. Because problem solving attempts to identify the root problem in situations, much
time and energy are spent on identifying the real problem.
3. Which of the following statements is true regarding decision making?
1. A) Scientific methods provide identical decisions by different individuals for the
same problems