LEADERSHIP NUR 4590 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Elements included in organizational structure are: - ✔✔Level of authority
Level of communication
Unity of direction
✔✔CNO would like to design an organizational structure that limits the flow of
communication and management/supervision determines decision making, what form of
organization structure is this? - ✔✔Centralized
✔✔Advantages of decentralized staffing system include: - ✔✔Increased job satisfaction,
employee retention, patient outcomes, interpersonal relationship
✔✔What trait would be the most important for a nursing quality improvement
supervisor? - ✔✔Interdisciplinary collaboration
✔✔Fractured humerus and the nurse finds the patient had completed a suicide attempt
in the shower. What type of event is this? - ✔✔Sentinel Event
✔✔Comparison of an organization to another organization that is determined best in
class, to implement methods to improve their performance is called? -
✔✔Benchmarking statement
✔✔Select all of nurse-sensitive indicators. - ✔✔Hospital acquired pressure ulcers
CAUTI
✔✔Select all of the aspects of nurse-sensitive indicators. - ✔✔Structural indicators,
outcome indicators, process indicators
✔✔Goals of root cause analysis: three questions that are asked. - ✔✔What happened?
Why?
, What can be done to prevent recurrence?
✔✔A nurse is documenting information in a computerized medical record. Which of the
following nursing actions may jeopardize the confidentiality? - ✔✔Share password for
computer access w/ colleagues
✔✔What is an organizational structure? - ✔✔Shape of an organization structure can be
described relatively tall or flat
✔✔Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) Program - ✔✔Establishes a set
of performance standards that define a total quality organization
✔✔All of the following influence the shape of the organization except: - ✔✔Informal and
formal power structures
✔✔The following is true regarding informal power - ✔✔Informal power comes from
relationships and alliances with people in the organization.
✔✔A nurse is serving on a continuous quality improvement (CQI) committee that has
been assigned to develop a program to reduce the number of medication administration
errors following a sentinel event at the facility. Which of the following strategies should
the committee plan to initiate first?
a.Review the events leading up to each medication administration error.
b.Develop a quality improvement program for nurses involved in medication
administration errors.
c.Require staff nurses to demonstrate competency by passing a medication
administration examination.
d.Provide an inservice on medication administration to all the nurses. - ✔✔a.Review the
events leading up to each medication administration error.
✔✔Which of the following statements about nursing informatics is false? - ✔✔Nursing
informatics deals exclusively with the development of electronic medical record
systems.
✔✔Shared governance is a model of organizational structure in which staff nurses are:
a. employed to establish mutual goals with clients.
b. empowered through autonomy and accountability.
c. engaged in problem-solving strategies and techniques.
d. equipped with evaluative thinking - ✔✔b. empowered through autonomy and
accountability.
✔✔Nurses' involvement in shared governance is an important component of:
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔Elements included in organizational structure are: - ✔✔Level of authority
Level of communication
Unity of direction
✔✔CNO would like to design an organizational structure that limits the flow of
communication and management/supervision determines decision making, what form of
organization structure is this? - ✔✔Centralized
✔✔Advantages of decentralized staffing system include: - ✔✔Increased job satisfaction,
employee retention, patient outcomes, interpersonal relationship
✔✔What trait would be the most important for a nursing quality improvement
supervisor? - ✔✔Interdisciplinary collaboration
✔✔Fractured humerus and the nurse finds the patient had completed a suicide attempt
in the shower. What type of event is this? - ✔✔Sentinel Event
✔✔Comparison of an organization to another organization that is determined best in
class, to implement methods to improve their performance is called? -
✔✔Benchmarking statement
✔✔Select all of nurse-sensitive indicators. - ✔✔Hospital acquired pressure ulcers
CAUTI
✔✔Select all of the aspects of nurse-sensitive indicators. - ✔✔Structural indicators,
outcome indicators, process indicators
✔✔Goals of root cause analysis: three questions that are asked. - ✔✔What happened?
Why?
, What can be done to prevent recurrence?
✔✔A nurse is documenting information in a computerized medical record. Which of the
following nursing actions may jeopardize the confidentiality? - ✔✔Share password for
computer access w/ colleagues
✔✔What is an organizational structure? - ✔✔Shape of an organization structure can be
described relatively tall or flat
✔✔Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) Program - ✔✔Establishes a set
of performance standards that define a total quality organization
✔✔All of the following influence the shape of the organization except: - ✔✔Informal and
formal power structures
✔✔The following is true regarding informal power - ✔✔Informal power comes from
relationships and alliances with people in the organization.
✔✔A nurse is serving on a continuous quality improvement (CQI) committee that has
been assigned to develop a program to reduce the number of medication administration
errors following a sentinel event at the facility. Which of the following strategies should
the committee plan to initiate first?
a.Review the events leading up to each medication administration error.
b.Develop a quality improvement program for nurses involved in medication
administration errors.
c.Require staff nurses to demonstrate competency by passing a medication
administration examination.
d.Provide an inservice on medication administration to all the nurses. - ✔✔a.Review the
events leading up to each medication administration error.
✔✔Which of the following statements about nursing informatics is false? - ✔✔Nursing
informatics deals exclusively with the development of electronic medical record
systems.
✔✔Shared governance is a model of organizational structure in which staff nurses are:
a. employed to establish mutual goals with clients.
b. empowered through autonomy and accountability.
c. engaged in problem-solving strategies and techniques.
d. equipped with evaluative thinking - ✔✔b. empowered through autonomy and
accountability.
✔✔Nurses' involvement in shared governance is an important component of:
