TEST BANK FOR CRITICAL EXAM 3
FINAL EXAM 2024 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
A nurse educator in a college setting has developed leadership skills as a result of
attaining further education and sharing positive change within the department. When
looking at leadership in the contemporary sense, what leadership trait is
characteristic of transformational leaders?
A) influencing others
B) guiding others
C) directing others
D) empowering others - CORRECT ANSWER-D
A manager of a busy surgical care center is working on the annual budget. Nursing
has suggested a need for a new blanket warmer for clients when they arrive to the
operating room. The last budget meeting required a 10% reduction in proposed
items. The manager elects to keep the blanket warmer in the budget. What major
task of the manager best describes the review and purchase of budgeted items that
the surgery center needs?
A) ability to work with people
B) assuring smooth workflow processes
C) efficiently using resources
D) communicating clearly - CORRECT ANSWER-C
A chief nursing officer in a busy, downtown, urban hospital has a major collaborative
vision regarding nursing andGwRoAuDldEliSkeMtOoRsEee.tCheOvMision become
reality by the year 2020. The chief nursing officer creates a plan to communicate the
vision and to empower individual nurses to help meet the goals and objectives that
accompany it. This is an example of which key to empowering people within an
organization?
A) assisting in releasing motivation employees possess
B) creating autonomy through boundaries
C) replacing the traditional hierarchy with self-directed teams
D) sharing information - CORRECT ANSWER-D
The president of a local chapter of a nursing professional organization determines
that there is a need for a change in the alignment of the chapter. Which Covey's role
of a leader looks at inspiring trust?
A) aligning
B) modeling
C) empowering
D) path finding - CORRECT ANSWER-B
A hospice nurse manager is presenting a new outlook to the hospice team and uses
an example from Covey's work on habits of an effective leader. The term trim-tab is
used to delineate the small rudder that turns the larger rudder of a ship. Which habit
by Covey is suggestive of the trim-tab concept?
,A) inspiring others
B) modeling character and competence
C) instilling trust
D) aligning goals and systems to achieve results - CORRECT ANSWER-A
A busy nurse manager on a medical-surgical unit has just read The Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People. Which habit of effective leaders was added to the other
seven and incorporates periodic analysis of values and beliefs?
A) blending voices to develop shared vision
B) empowering others to use their talents
C) empowering others to live out passions
D) hearing one's own voice and inspiring others to find theirs - CORRECT ANSWER-
D
Professional nurses assume leadership roles when coordinating care and making
recommendations to interprofessional team members. What best describes the
feminist approach to leadership?
A) concept of mutuality
B) concept of empowerment
C) concept of "power with"
D) concept of transformation - CORRECT ANSWER-C
Leaders choose how they use power based on their philosophical beliefs while
considering specific situations. According to Covey, what describes the overall real
test of interpersonal skills in transformational leadership?
A) to permit others to validate themselves
B) alignment of goals benefits members
C) mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits
D) to make all contributors accountable - CORRECT ANSWER-C
A client has been empowered by the nurse to learn to exercise and eat healthy when
discharged to home from the hospital. Which best describes empowered caring in
the caregiver's role as it relates to behavioral changes in the client compared to the
use of traditional approaches?
A) behavioral changes occur from empowering situations
B) behavioral changes are not as genuine
C) behavioral changes are less realistic
D) long-lasting habits are the goal but not the outcome - CORRECT ANSWER-A
A nurse attends a wound-healing conference and brings back information about a
change in practice that he or she believes needs to occur on the unit. The nurse
manager encourages the nurse to empower colleagues to provide their thoughts on
the changes the nurse believes are in the best interests of the clients on the unit.
Which term best describes an avenue for participatory decision making?
A) team decision making
B) consensus decision making
C) individual decision making
D) autocratic decision making - CORRECT ANSWER-B
, A new graduate nurse has accepted a job on a nursing unit in a busy orthopedic unit
and has been working for the last 6 months developing skills. The nurse has worked
with many colleagues and has seen many instances where the manager has been
accessible, communicated well, and has supported the staff. The nurse determines
that the leader on the unit is an exceptional nursing leader. What remaining criteria
for evaluating effective leaders does McCauley and Van Velsor list that would relate
to accountability?
A) Does the leader use effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills?
B) Can the leader effectively modify his or her behavior and that of others?
C) Is the leader willing to help others grow as professional nurses?
D) Does the leader set high standards and hold others and self to the standards? -
CORRECT ANSWER-D
A nurse manager attends a conference on leadership skills and contemplates how to
be a better leader. One of the staff members on the unit recently stated that the
manager did not empower the members of the staff and was extremely picky about
everything. What would be the criteria for effective leadership that deals with
empowerment?
A) Is the leader aware of issues encountered by nurses engaged in client care
activities?
B) Does the leader effectively delegate tasks to others, or does he or she
micromanage everything?
C) Does the leader provide the needed resources to provide quality nursing
services?
D) Does the leader demonstrate sensitivity to the impact of self on others, leading to
effective use of self? - CORRECT ANSWER-B
A nursing department dean is hired to lead a major university initiative that
encompasses leadership strategies. Which role that Covey has listed as the most
effective for leadership has to do with getting others to internally unleash their human
potential for the dean?
A) aligning
B) modeling
C) empowering
D) path finding - CORRECT ANSWER-C
A nurse manager is working on ways to maximize client satisfaction. Which skill of a
nurse manager requires management of maximizing client satisfaction?
A) budgeting
B) marketing
C) staffing
D) strategic planning - CORRECT ANSWER-B
When the nurse truly empowers the client, positive outcomes can be the result.
Which prerequisite to empowerment encompasses turning to higher powers without
the need for social prominence?
A) power by purpose
B) power by reflection
C) power by gestalt
D) power by giving - CORRECT ANSWER-C
FINAL EXAM 2024 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
A nurse educator in a college setting has developed leadership skills as a result of
attaining further education and sharing positive change within the department. When
looking at leadership in the contemporary sense, what leadership trait is
characteristic of transformational leaders?
A) influencing others
B) guiding others
C) directing others
D) empowering others - CORRECT ANSWER-D
A manager of a busy surgical care center is working on the annual budget. Nursing
has suggested a need for a new blanket warmer for clients when they arrive to the
operating room. The last budget meeting required a 10% reduction in proposed
items. The manager elects to keep the blanket warmer in the budget. What major
task of the manager best describes the review and purchase of budgeted items that
the surgery center needs?
A) ability to work with people
B) assuring smooth workflow processes
C) efficiently using resources
D) communicating clearly - CORRECT ANSWER-C
A chief nursing officer in a busy, downtown, urban hospital has a major collaborative
vision regarding nursing andGwRoAuDldEliSkeMtOoRsEee.tCheOvMision become
reality by the year 2020. The chief nursing officer creates a plan to communicate the
vision and to empower individual nurses to help meet the goals and objectives that
accompany it. This is an example of which key to empowering people within an
organization?
A) assisting in releasing motivation employees possess
B) creating autonomy through boundaries
C) replacing the traditional hierarchy with self-directed teams
D) sharing information - CORRECT ANSWER-D
The president of a local chapter of a nursing professional organization determines
that there is a need for a change in the alignment of the chapter. Which Covey's role
of a leader looks at inspiring trust?
A) aligning
B) modeling
C) empowering
D) path finding - CORRECT ANSWER-B
A hospice nurse manager is presenting a new outlook to the hospice team and uses
an example from Covey's work on habits of an effective leader. The term trim-tab is
used to delineate the small rudder that turns the larger rudder of a ship. Which habit
by Covey is suggestive of the trim-tab concept?
,A) inspiring others
B) modeling character and competence
C) instilling trust
D) aligning goals and systems to achieve results - CORRECT ANSWER-A
A busy nurse manager on a medical-surgical unit has just read The Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People. Which habit of effective leaders was added to the other
seven and incorporates periodic analysis of values and beliefs?
A) blending voices to develop shared vision
B) empowering others to use their talents
C) empowering others to live out passions
D) hearing one's own voice and inspiring others to find theirs - CORRECT ANSWER-
D
Professional nurses assume leadership roles when coordinating care and making
recommendations to interprofessional team members. What best describes the
feminist approach to leadership?
A) concept of mutuality
B) concept of empowerment
C) concept of "power with"
D) concept of transformation - CORRECT ANSWER-C
Leaders choose how they use power based on their philosophical beliefs while
considering specific situations. According to Covey, what describes the overall real
test of interpersonal skills in transformational leadership?
A) to permit others to validate themselves
B) alignment of goals benefits members
C) mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits
D) to make all contributors accountable - CORRECT ANSWER-C
A client has been empowered by the nurse to learn to exercise and eat healthy when
discharged to home from the hospital. Which best describes empowered caring in
the caregiver's role as it relates to behavioral changes in the client compared to the
use of traditional approaches?
A) behavioral changes occur from empowering situations
B) behavioral changes are not as genuine
C) behavioral changes are less realistic
D) long-lasting habits are the goal but not the outcome - CORRECT ANSWER-A
A nurse attends a wound-healing conference and brings back information about a
change in practice that he or she believes needs to occur on the unit. The nurse
manager encourages the nurse to empower colleagues to provide their thoughts on
the changes the nurse believes are in the best interests of the clients on the unit.
Which term best describes an avenue for participatory decision making?
A) team decision making
B) consensus decision making
C) individual decision making
D) autocratic decision making - CORRECT ANSWER-B
, A new graduate nurse has accepted a job on a nursing unit in a busy orthopedic unit
and has been working for the last 6 months developing skills. The nurse has worked
with many colleagues and has seen many instances where the manager has been
accessible, communicated well, and has supported the staff. The nurse determines
that the leader on the unit is an exceptional nursing leader. What remaining criteria
for evaluating effective leaders does McCauley and Van Velsor list that would relate
to accountability?
A) Does the leader use effective verbal and nonverbal communication skills?
B) Can the leader effectively modify his or her behavior and that of others?
C) Is the leader willing to help others grow as professional nurses?
D) Does the leader set high standards and hold others and self to the standards? -
CORRECT ANSWER-D
A nurse manager attends a conference on leadership skills and contemplates how to
be a better leader. One of the staff members on the unit recently stated that the
manager did not empower the members of the staff and was extremely picky about
everything. What would be the criteria for effective leadership that deals with
empowerment?
A) Is the leader aware of issues encountered by nurses engaged in client care
activities?
B) Does the leader effectively delegate tasks to others, or does he or she
micromanage everything?
C) Does the leader provide the needed resources to provide quality nursing
services?
D) Does the leader demonstrate sensitivity to the impact of self on others, leading to
effective use of self? - CORRECT ANSWER-B
A nursing department dean is hired to lead a major university initiative that
encompasses leadership strategies. Which role that Covey has listed as the most
effective for leadership has to do with getting others to internally unleash their human
potential for the dean?
A) aligning
B) modeling
C) empowering
D) path finding - CORRECT ANSWER-C
A nurse manager is working on ways to maximize client satisfaction. Which skill of a
nurse manager requires management of maximizing client satisfaction?
A) budgeting
B) marketing
C) staffing
D) strategic planning - CORRECT ANSWER-B
When the nurse truly empowers the client, positive outcomes can be the result.
Which prerequisite to empowerment encompasses turning to higher powers without
the need for social prominence?
A) power by purpose
B) power by reflection
C) power by gestalt
D) power by giving - CORRECT ANSWER-C
