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Nursing Leadership Management and Professional
Practice for the LPN LVN 7th Edition Study Guide
Leadership Skills and Practice Questions Workbook
2026/2027
,Table Of Content
Unit One: The Nursing Profession in Today’s Health-Care Environment
1: Historical Perspective and Current Trends
2: Caring as a Personal and Professional Behavior
3: Understanding the Changing Roles in Nursing
4: Health-Care Environment
5: Nursing and Informatics
Unit Two: From Student to Nurse
6: Fulfill Your Role as a Student
7: The Importance of Critical Thinking
8: Entry Into Practice
9: Employment Process
10: Leadership and Management as a Professional Concept
11: Communication Skills in Leadership and Management
12: Understanding the Benefits of Change
13: Setting Meaningful Priorities
14: Handling Conflict in the Nursing Profession
15: Dealing With Chaos
16: Ethics and Law in Nursing Management
17: Understanding Use of Power
18: Motivating Employees
19: Team Building
20: Delegating, Coaching, and Evaluating Performance
, chapter 1: historical perspective and current trends
multiple choice
identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. the nursing student predominantly uses knowledge about the history of nursing for which
purpose?
1. to understand the professional choices open to the student
2. to prevent making medication errors in practice
3. to determine in which geographical area it is best to practice
4. to reduce the cost of delivering quality health care
Ans: 1
page: 2
feedback
1 understanding nursing history helps the nurse to better recognize the
many choices available when choosing his or her own future path.
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2 understanding nursing history does not prevent medication errors in
practice.
3 understanding nursing history does not determine which geographical
area is
the best place in which to practice.
4 understanding nursing history does not reduce the cost of delivering
quality
health care.
.
2. the nurse is working in an underdeveloped country and observes the natives lighting ritual
fires and pounding on primitive drums around the sick person to promote recovery. the
nurse interprets this behavior as indicating the natives believe illness results from which
items?
1. pathogens and genetics
2. evil spirits
3. tides and planets
4. plants and animals
Ans: 2
page: 2
feedback
1 the belief that disease was caused by pathogens and genetics would not
result in
lighting fires or candles and making loud noises to ward off spirits.
2 a belief that disease was caused by evil spirits would result in lighting
fires or
candles and making loud noises to try to ward off the spirits.
3 the belief that disease was caused by tides and planets would not
result inlighting fires or candles and making loud noises to ward
off spirits.
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4 the belief that disease was caused by plants and animals would not
result inlighting fires or candles and making loud noises to ward off spirits.
3. who is credited with making a written record of health-care practices and removing the
mythical aspect of health care?
1. hammurabi
2. florence nightingale
3. hippocrates
4. apollo
Ans: 3
page: 3
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feedback
1 hammurabi wrote a code of laws to protect the patient and define
legal limitations of caregivers, florence nightingale introduced
modern nursing
during the crimean war, and apollo was a mythical god who was
believed tocontrol health and wellness.
2 hammurabi wrote a code of laws to protect the patient and define legal
limitations of caregivers, flnoruernsceytnieghstti nsga.lec ion tmrod uced modern nursing
during the crimean war, and apollo was a mythical god who was believed
to control health and wellness.
3 hippocrates wrote the first medical textbook, outlining current
health-care practices, and removed the mythical belief that apollo
was responsible forhealth.
4 hammurabi wrote a code of laws to protect the patient and define
legal limitations of caregivers, florence nightingale introduced
modern nursing during the crimean war, and apollo was a mythical
god who was believed to
control health and wellness.
4. who served as the first public health nurses, caring for the sick and the poor?
Nursing Leadership Management and Professional
Practice for the LPN LVN 7th Edition Study Guide
Leadership Skills and Practice Questions Workbook
2026/2027
,Table Of Content
Unit One: The Nursing Profession in Today’s Health-Care Environment
1: Historical Perspective and Current Trends
2: Caring as a Personal and Professional Behavior
3: Understanding the Changing Roles in Nursing
4: Health-Care Environment
5: Nursing and Informatics
Unit Two: From Student to Nurse
6: Fulfill Your Role as a Student
7: The Importance of Critical Thinking
8: Entry Into Practice
9: Employment Process
10: Leadership and Management as a Professional Concept
11: Communication Skills in Leadership and Management
12: Understanding the Benefits of Change
13: Setting Meaningful Priorities
14: Handling Conflict in the Nursing Profession
15: Dealing With Chaos
16: Ethics and Law in Nursing Management
17: Understanding Use of Power
18: Motivating Employees
19: Team Building
20: Delegating, Coaching, and Evaluating Performance
, chapter 1: historical perspective and current trends
multiple choice
identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. the nursing student predominantly uses knowledge about the history of nursing for which
purpose?
1. to understand the professional choices open to the student
2. to prevent making medication errors in practice
3. to determine in which geographical area it is best to practice
4. to reduce the cost of delivering quality health care
Ans: 1
page: 2
feedback
1 understanding nursing history helps the nurse to better recognize the
many choices available when choosing his or her own future path.
N U R S Y T E S T S . C O M
2 understanding nursing history does not prevent medication errors in
practice.
3 understanding nursing history does not determine which geographical
area is
the best place in which to practice.
4 understanding nursing history does not reduce the cost of delivering
quality
health care.
.
2. the nurse is working in an underdeveloped country and observes the natives lighting ritual
fires and pounding on primitive drums around the sick person to promote recovery. the
nurse interprets this behavior as indicating the natives believe illness results from which
items?
1. pathogens and genetics
2. evil spirits
3. tides and planets
4. plants and animals
Ans: 2
page: 2
feedback
1 the belief that disease was caused by pathogens and genetics would not
result in
lighting fires or candles and making loud noises to ward off spirits.
2 a belief that disease was caused by evil spirits would result in lighting
fires or
candles and making loud noises to try to ward off the spirits.
3 the belief that disease was caused by tides and planets would not
result inlighting fires or candles and making loud noises to ward
off spirits.
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4 the belief that disease was caused by plants and animals would not
result inlighting fires or candles and making loud noises to ward off spirits.
3. who is credited with making a written record of health-care practices and removing the
mythical aspect of health care?
1. hammurabi
2. florence nightingale
3. hippocrates
4. apollo
Ans: 3
page: 3
N U R S Y T E S T S . C O M
feedback
1 hammurabi wrote a code of laws to protect the patient and define
legal limitations of caregivers, florence nightingale introduced
modern nursing
during the crimean war, and apollo was a mythical god who was
believed tocontrol health and wellness.
2 hammurabi wrote a code of laws to protect the patient and define legal
limitations of caregivers, flnoruernsceytnieghstti nsga.lec ion tmrod uced modern nursing
during the crimean war, and apollo was a mythical god who was believed
to control health and wellness.
3 hippocrates wrote the first medical textbook, outlining current
health-care practices, and removed the mythical belief that apollo
was responsible forhealth.
4 hammurabi wrote a code of laws to protect the patient and define
legal limitations of caregivers, florence nightingale introduced
modern nursing during the crimean war, and apollo was a mythical
god who was believed to
control health and wellness.
4. who served as the first public health nurses, caring for the sick and the poor?
