NURS 3720 Leadership Exam Questions
With Correct Answers
What is leadership? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Using individual traits
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and personal power to interact constructively to resolve problems
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- The process of engaging and influencing others
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- Canadian Nurses Association's position statement
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- Ability of any nurse to be a nurse leader, regardless of the personality
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type, gender, ethnicity, or age
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What is management? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Ensuring that people
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have the necessary resources to get the job done
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What is followership? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Involves engaging with
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others who are leading or managing, by contributing to the work that
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needs to be done. | | |
What is appreciative inquiry and the five-dimensional cycle? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-- It is associated with how people question and solve
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problems
- 1. definition, 2. discovery, 3. dream, 4. design, and 5. destiny
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,What is trait leadership theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- The idea that
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leaders have a certain set of physical and emotional characteristics that
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are crucial for inspiring others
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- Self-awareness of traits is useful for assessing personal strengths
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- "The Great Man Theory" - being born with leadership traits
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What are style leadership theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Consider
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how leaders behave
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- Based on task and relationship behaviours
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- Leaders need to develop both types of behaviours to be successful
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What are situational-contingency leadership theories? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-- The effectiveness of leadership depends on situational
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factors: Path-goal theory: the leader's behaviour should be contingent
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on task and follower characteristics
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- Nursing leaders must assess each situation as unique and determine
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appropriate actions accordingly | |
What are transformational leadership theories and the 4 I's? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-- Leaders and followers set higher goals and work together
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to achieve them
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- Idealized, Influence, Individuated consideration, and Inspirational
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motivation
,What are authentic leadership theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
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Leaders are aware of their own values and moral convictions and are
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constantly realigning their actions to match their values
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- Authentic leadership is strongly associated with followers' trust in their
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leaders and followers' positive emotions
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What are management theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Taylor
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(1947): the founder of "scientific management" and the "efficiency
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movement"
- Mintzberg (1990): organizational structures and processes
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- Followership theories
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What is complexity science? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- The study of
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complex systems: "the patterns of relationships within them, how they
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are sustained, how they self-organize, and how outcomes emerge"
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- Nurses must be flexible and dynamic to keep up with the ever-
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changing systems of people, healthcare, public policy, and human
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relationships
- Networking, attractors, emergence, systems thinking, and the butterfly
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effect
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What are the three competency domains for leadership management? -
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CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Managing the business
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- Leading within
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, - Leading people
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What are some key competencies for nurse leaders in the 21st century?
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- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Interactive leadership: different actors within
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the health system
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- Empowerment of operational leaders: look at new mechanisms and
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build and learning health system
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- Involvement of communities, patients, and families in the health
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dialogue
- Involvement of communities, patients, and families in the health
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dialogue
- Increasing evidence and research to understand leadership in different
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health systems |
What is imposter phenomenon? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Self-doubt in
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one's ability to function adequately in one's role
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- Common in novice nurses and novice leaders
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- May prevent nurses from taking advantage of leadership opportunities
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because of feelings of inadequacy
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Health informatics competencies allow nurses to: - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-- Address new health challenges by using technology to
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retrieve the best available evidence
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- Communicate findings and changes
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With Correct Answers
What is leadership? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Using individual traits
| | | | | | | | |
and personal power to interact constructively to resolve problems
| | | | | | | |
- The process of engaging and influencing others
| | | | | | |
- Canadian Nurses Association's position statement
| | | | |
- Ability of any nurse to be a nurse leader, regardless of the personality
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
type, gender, ethnicity, or age
| | | |
What is management? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Ensuring that people
| | | | | | | |
have the necessary resources to get the job done
| | | | | | | |
What is followership? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Involves engaging with
| | | | | | | |
others who are leading or managing, by contributing to the work that
| | | | | | | | | | | |
needs to be done. | | |
What is appreciative inquiry and the five-dimensional cycle? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-- It is associated with how people question and solve
| | | | | | | | | |
problems
- 1. definition, 2. discovery, 3. dream, 4. design, and 5. destiny
| | | | | | | | | | |
,What is trait leadership theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- The idea that
| | | | | | | | | | |
leaders have a certain set of physical and emotional characteristics that
| | | | | | | | | | |
are crucial for inspiring others
| | | |
- Self-awareness of traits is useful for assessing personal strengths
| | | | | | | | |
- "The Great Man Theory" - being born with leadership traits
| | | | | | | | | |
What are style leadership theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Consider
| | | | | | | | |
how leaders behave
| |
- Based on task and relationship behaviours
| | | | | |
- Leaders need to develop both types of behaviours to be successful
| | | | | | | | | | |
What are situational-contingency leadership theories? - CORRECT
| | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-- The effectiveness of leadership depends on situational
| | | | | | | |
factors: Path-goal theory: the leader's behaviour should be contingent
| | | | | | | | |
on task and follower characteristics
| | | |
- Nursing leaders must assess each situation as unique and determine
| | | | | | | | | | |
appropriate actions accordingly | |
What are transformational leadership theories and the 4 I's? - CORRECT
| | | | | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-- Leaders and followers set higher goals and work together
| | | | | | | | |
to achieve them
| | |
- Idealized, Influence, Individuated consideration, and Inspirational
| | | | | | |
motivation
,What are authentic leadership theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--
| | | | | | | |
Leaders are aware of their own values and moral convictions and are
| | | | | | | | | | | |
constantly realigning their actions to match their values
| | | | | | |
- Authentic leadership is strongly associated with followers' trust in their
| | | | | | | | | |
leaders and followers' positive emotions
| | | | |
What are management theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Taylor
| | | | | | | |
(1947): the founder of "scientific management" and the "efficiency
| | | | | | | | |
movement"
- Mintzberg (1990): organizational structures and processes
| | | | | |
- Followership theories
| |
What is complexity science? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- The study of
| | | | | | | | | |
complex systems: "the patterns of relationships within them, how they
| | | | | | | | | |
are sustained, how they self-organize, and how outcomes emerge"
| | | | | | | |
- Nurses must be flexible and dynamic to keep up with the ever-
| | | | | | | | | | | |
changing systems of people, healthcare, public policy, and human
| | | | | | | | |
relationships
- Networking, attractors, emergence, systems thinking, and the butterfly
| | | | | | | |
effect
|
What are the three competency domains for leadership management? -
| | | | | | | | | |
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Managing the business
| | | |
- Leading within
| |
, - Leading people
| |
What are some key competencies for nurse leaders in the 21st century?
| | | | | | | | | | |
- CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Interactive leadership: different actors within
| | | | | | | | |
the health system
| |
- Empowerment of operational leaders: look at new mechanisms and
| | | | | | | | | |
build and learning health system
| | | |
- Involvement of communities, patients, and families in the health
| | | | | | | | | |
dialogue
- Involvement of communities, patients, and families in the health
| | | | | | | | | |
dialogue
- Increasing evidence and research to understand leadership in different
| | | | | | | | | |
health systems |
What is imposter phenomenon? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- Self-doubt in
| | | | | | | |
one's ability to function adequately in one's role
| | | | | | | |
- Common in novice nurses and novice leaders
| | | | | | |
- May prevent nurses from taking advantage of leadership opportunities
| | | | | | | | |
because of feelings of inadequacy
| | | | |
Health informatics competencies allow nurses to: - CORRECT
| | | | | | | |
ANSWER✔✔-- Address new health challenges by using technology to
| | | | | | | | |
retrieve the best available evidence
| | | |
- Communicate findings and changes
| | | |
