ELSEVIER ADAPTIVE 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which skill would be essential for an effective nurse manager to develop and
improve collaborations with others? (SATA)
1. Flexibility
2. Reacting hastily
3. Showing frustration
4. Ability to listen to others
5. Ability to share information and ideas - ✔✔1. Flexibility
4. Ability to listen to others
5. Ability to share information and ideas
✔✔Which action is the MOST appropriate for the team leader to approach an ethical
situation of a nurse arriving at work after drinking alcohol?
1. Counsel the nurse about the problem
2. Ignore the problem until it happens again
3. Notify the nurse manager about the problem
4. Resolve the problem by sending the nurse home. - ✔✔3. Notify the nurse manager
about the problem
✔✔Which nursing duty is met by a nurse speaking in support of a vulnerable client's
best interest?
1. Caring
2. Veracity
3. Advocacy
4. Confidentiality - ✔✔3. Advocacy
✔✔Which communication link would the nurse identify as the MOST important to
connect people with their surroundings?
1. Social
2. Physical
3. Materialistic
4. Environmental - ✔✔1. Social
✔✔Which statement indicates the MOST accurate information about professional
liability insurance?
1. If you have liability insurance you are more likely to be sued.
2. Your employer provides you with the liability insurance you will need.
3. Liability insurance is not available for nursing professionals working in a hospital
4. Personal liability insurance offers representation if the state board of nursing files
charges against you. - ✔✔4. Personal liability insurance offers representation if the
state board of nursing files charges against you.
, ✔✔Which response is MOST appropriate for the home health care nurse when asked to
straighten the blankets on the bed after completing a follow up visit?
1. I would but my back hurts today
2. Okay it will be my good deed of the day
3. Of course. I want to do whatever i can for you
4. I would like to but its not in my job description. - ✔✔3. Of course. I want to do
whatever i can for you
✔✔Which of Gardner's tasks involves anticipating client outcomes for single clients or
families and helping them formulate their vision of future well being?
1. Explaining
2. Motivating
3. Affirming values
4. Envisioning goals - ✔✔4. Envisioning goals
✔✔While auditing unit documents a nurse finds some omissions. Which term best
describes when the nurse meets with the staff to discuss the findings and
communicates ways to achieve the desired goals?
1. Leadership
2. Followership
3. Management
4. Decision making - ✔✔3. Management
✔✔Which statement regarding leadership is true?
1. Transactional leadership uses motivation and inspiration strategies
2. Democratic leadership is useful in times of natural disaster
3. Situational leadership is the most commonly used leadership style
4. Autocratic leadership stresses prompt and orderly performance. - ✔✔4. Autocratic
leadership stresses prompt and orderly performance.
✔✔A health care facility expects their nurse leaders to understand and choose the
appropriate leadership style that fits situations they will encounter with their staff. Which
situation MOST needs an autocratic leader?
1. Managing staff during an emergency procedure
2. Discussing unit issues at a monthly staff meeting
3. Evaluating staff for proper use of policies and procedures
4. Persuading staff to participate in a hospital fundraiser - ✔✔1. Managing staff during
an emergency procedure
✔✔While communicating with a nursing peer the nurse leader reports i allow my team
to work freely and accomplish their own tasks without oversight. which style of
leadership is the nurse following?
1. Autocratic
2. Situational
3. Democratic
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Which skill would be essential for an effective nurse manager to develop and
improve collaborations with others? (SATA)
1. Flexibility
2. Reacting hastily
3. Showing frustration
4. Ability to listen to others
5. Ability to share information and ideas - ✔✔1. Flexibility
4. Ability to listen to others
5. Ability to share information and ideas
✔✔Which action is the MOST appropriate for the team leader to approach an ethical
situation of a nurse arriving at work after drinking alcohol?
1. Counsel the nurse about the problem
2. Ignore the problem until it happens again
3. Notify the nurse manager about the problem
4. Resolve the problem by sending the nurse home. - ✔✔3. Notify the nurse manager
about the problem
✔✔Which nursing duty is met by a nurse speaking in support of a vulnerable client's
best interest?
1. Caring
2. Veracity
3. Advocacy
4. Confidentiality - ✔✔3. Advocacy
✔✔Which communication link would the nurse identify as the MOST important to
connect people with their surroundings?
1. Social
2. Physical
3. Materialistic
4. Environmental - ✔✔1. Social
✔✔Which statement indicates the MOST accurate information about professional
liability insurance?
1. If you have liability insurance you are more likely to be sued.
2. Your employer provides you with the liability insurance you will need.
3. Liability insurance is not available for nursing professionals working in a hospital
4. Personal liability insurance offers representation if the state board of nursing files
charges against you. - ✔✔4. Personal liability insurance offers representation if the
state board of nursing files charges against you.
, ✔✔Which response is MOST appropriate for the home health care nurse when asked to
straighten the blankets on the bed after completing a follow up visit?
1. I would but my back hurts today
2. Okay it will be my good deed of the day
3. Of course. I want to do whatever i can for you
4. I would like to but its not in my job description. - ✔✔3. Of course. I want to do
whatever i can for you
✔✔Which of Gardner's tasks involves anticipating client outcomes for single clients or
families and helping them formulate their vision of future well being?
1. Explaining
2. Motivating
3. Affirming values
4. Envisioning goals - ✔✔4. Envisioning goals
✔✔While auditing unit documents a nurse finds some omissions. Which term best
describes when the nurse meets with the staff to discuss the findings and
communicates ways to achieve the desired goals?
1. Leadership
2. Followership
3. Management
4. Decision making - ✔✔3. Management
✔✔Which statement regarding leadership is true?
1. Transactional leadership uses motivation and inspiration strategies
2. Democratic leadership is useful in times of natural disaster
3. Situational leadership is the most commonly used leadership style
4. Autocratic leadership stresses prompt and orderly performance. - ✔✔4. Autocratic
leadership stresses prompt and orderly performance.
✔✔A health care facility expects their nurse leaders to understand and choose the
appropriate leadership style that fits situations they will encounter with their staff. Which
situation MOST needs an autocratic leader?
1. Managing staff during an emergency procedure
2. Discussing unit issues at a monthly staff meeting
3. Evaluating staff for proper use of policies and procedures
4. Persuading staff to participate in a hospital fundraiser - ✔✔1. Managing staff during
an emergency procedure
✔✔While communicating with a nursing peer the nurse leader reports i allow my team
to work freely and accomplish their own tasks without oversight. which style of
leadership is the nurse following?
1. Autocratic
2. Situational
3. Democratic
