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Test Bank For Leadership Roles and Management
Functions in Nursing Theory and Application
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11th Edition
By Bessie L. Marquis, Carol Jorgensen Huston

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Chapter 1 Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning:
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Requisites for successful leadership and management

1. What statement is true regarding decision making?
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A) It is an analysis of a situation
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B) It is closely related to evaluation
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C) It involves choosing between courses of action
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D) It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem Ans
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Decision making is a complex cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular co
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urseof action. Problem solving is part of decision making and is a systematic process tha
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t focuseson analyzing a difficult situation. Critical thinking, sometimes referred to as refl
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ective thinking, is related to evaluation and has a broader scope than decision making an
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d problem solving.
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2. What

1. A) Its need for implementation time
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2. B) Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
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3. C) Its failure to gather sufficient data
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4. D) Its failure to evaluate alternatives
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The traditional problem-
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solving model is less effective when time constraints are a consideration. Decision makin
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g can occur without the full analysis required in problem solving. Because problem solvi
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ng attempts to identify the root problem in situations, muchtime and energy are spent on
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3. Which of the following statements is true regarding decision making?
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1. A) Scientific methods provide identical decisions by different individuals for
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, 2. B) Decisions are greatly influenced by each persons value system
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3. C) Personal beliefs can be adjusted for when the scientific approach to prob
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4. D) Past experience has little to do with the quality of the decision
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Values, life experience, individual preference, and individual ways of thinking will influe
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ncea persons decision making. No matter how objective the criteria will be, value judgm
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ents willalways play a part in a persons decision making, either consciously or subconsci
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ously.

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4. What influences the quality of a decision most often? A) The decision makers immed
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B) The type of decision that needs to be made
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C) Questions asked and alternatives generated we we we we




D) The time of day the decision is ma
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The greater the number of alternatives that can be generated by the decision maker, the
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betterthe final decision will be. The alternatives generated and the final choices are limit
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ed by eachpersons value system.
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5. What

1. A) Good decision makers are usually right-brain, intuitive thinkers
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2. B) Effective decision makers are sensitive to the situation and to others
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3. C) Good decisions are usually made by left-brain, logical thinkers
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4. D) Good decision making requires analytical rather than creative processes
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, Good decision makers seem to have antennae that make them particularly sensitive to other
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