Leadership Final NCLEX /Newest Actual
Exam Review Q&A with Definitive Answers
A+ Score Solutions
Quiz____?
A nurse manager approaches a nursing staff member and gives her a book to read
about bedside nursing. What kind of leadership is the manager using?
A) Transactional
B) Transformational
C) Vertical and Collaborative
D) None of the above -
Answer✓✓
B) Transformational
Quiz____?
A nurse wants to develop better leadership. She asks her manager what she can do
to improve her ability to lead. Which of the following did the manager tell her to do?
(select all that apply)
A) Lead by example
B) Accept responsibility
C) Have a clear vision
D) Read leadership books -
Answer✓✓
A) Lead by example
B) Accept responsibility
C) Have a clear vision
Quiz____?
A student nurse has her clinical o a medical-surgical unit. She has been encouraged
to be a leader, but does not know how to be a leader as a student. Which is a way
she can apply her leadership abilities? (select all that apply)
A) Learn to deal with conflict
B) Be on time for clinical
C) Evaluate her nursing interventions and their
outcomes
D) Work as hard as she can by herself. -
Answer✓✓
A) Learn to deal with conflict
C) Evaluate her nursing interventions and their outcomes
Quiz____?
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,A nurse manager frequently stays in the office, rarely checking in on the staff or
making rounds in patient rooms. This manager recently made a decision to improve
quality care. A new nurse asks the manager how to carry out this new decision, but
the manager replies, "Ask another nurse. Just figure it out. I don't have time to
explain." Which standards for a healthy work environment is the manager lacking in
this situation? (Select all that apply)
A) Collaboration
B) Communication
C) Decision making
D) Accountability
E) Self-actualization -
Answer✓✓
A) Collaboration
B) Communication
D) Accountability
Quiz____?
A nurse manager on a telemetry unit recently made a decision without considering
the effects it might have in the workplace and the overall missions and goals. This
manager is not giving thought to which of the following roles of the manager?
A) Consuming Research
B) Mentoring
C) Case Management
D) Quality Indicators
E) Organizational Culture -
Answer✓✓
E) Organizational Culture
Quiz____?
Nurse managers are often leaders of change. In order to do this effectively, the
nurse manager should have several practices to enforce this change and achieve
patient safety. Which of the following is NOT an example of enforcing change in the
work environment?
A) Encouraging and participating in the change
movement
B) Following up and asking staff how they viewed
the impact of the change initiative
C) Asking a nurse on the floor how he/she can help
and meet needs
D) Making sure that the task is done as quickly as
possible without regard to reliability -
Answer✓✓
D) Making sure that the task is done as quickly as possible without regard to
reliability
Quiz____?
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, Part of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), To Err is Human(2000) identified the number
of deaths attributed to patient safety issues. This resulted in a second report
Crossing the Quality Chasm(2001) identifying six major aims in providing health care
that apply equally to all professions. Which terms are a part of the major aims of
providing health care? Select all that apply.
A. Safe
B. Ineffective
C. Efficient
D. Patient- centered
E. Inequitable -
Answer✓✓
A. Safe
C. Efficient
D. Patient- centered
Quiz____?
James and Susan are new graduates employed in a small community hospital. They
see that practices seem to be very physician driven and that patients have little input
into their care. Families are seen as a nuisance rather than as partners in potential
care provision. What is the best approach James and Susan might use to improve
care in this setting?
A. Do nothing. They are too new to the organization
to make change.
B. Report the team members to the chief nursing
officer who is unlikely to know the lack of details
on this unit.
C. Share with their team members what they know
about the aims of providing health care.
D. Share with the physician the recommendations
from various IOM reports. -
Answer✓✓
C. Share with their team members what they know about the aims of providing
health care.
Quiz____?
Mr. Dennis was admitted to a rehabilitation center after discharge from a hospital. He
has not walked in 5 days while he was hospitalized and is provided a wheelchair.
Dining with other residents is expected, and staffing is limited on a holiday weekend.
What is the best strategy to be sure Mr. Dennis has sufficient nutrition and exercise?
A. Request help from another unit before dinner and
indicate the nature of help needed.
B. Tell Mr. Dennis to stay in bed and someone will
bring a tray to his room because the staff can't
get him to the dining room in time for dinner.
C. Order a lift device to transfer Mr. Dennis from his
bed to the wheelchair.
D. Assist Mr. Dennis into his wheelchair and remind
him that in 2 hours he must be in the dining room
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Exam Review Q&A with Definitive Answers
A+ Score Solutions
Quiz____?
A nurse manager approaches a nursing staff member and gives her a book to read
about bedside nursing. What kind of leadership is the manager using?
A) Transactional
B) Transformational
C) Vertical and Collaborative
D) None of the above -
Answer✓✓
B) Transformational
Quiz____?
A nurse wants to develop better leadership. She asks her manager what she can do
to improve her ability to lead. Which of the following did the manager tell her to do?
(select all that apply)
A) Lead by example
B) Accept responsibility
C) Have a clear vision
D) Read leadership books -
Answer✓✓
A) Lead by example
B) Accept responsibility
C) Have a clear vision
Quiz____?
A student nurse has her clinical o a medical-surgical unit. She has been encouraged
to be a leader, but does not know how to be a leader as a student. Which is a way
she can apply her leadership abilities? (select all that apply)
A) Learn to deal with conflict
B) Be on time for clinical
C) Evaluate her nursing interventions and their
outcomes
D) Work as hard as she can by herself. -
Answer✓✓
A) Learn to deal with conflict
C) Evaluate her nursing interventions and their outcomes
Quiz____?
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,A nurse manager frequently stays in the office, rarely checking in on the staff or
making rounds in patient rooms. This manager recently made a decision to improve
quality care. A new nurse asks the manager how to carry out this new decision, but
the manager replies, "Ask another nurse. Just figure it out. I don't have time to
explain." Which standards for a healthy work environment is the manager lacking in
this situation? (Select all that apply)
A) Collaboration
B) Communication
C) Decision making
D) Accountability
E) Self-actualization -
Answer✓✓
A) Collaboration
B) Communication
D) Accountability
Quiz____?
A nurse manager on a telemetry unit recently made a decision without considering
the effects it might have in the workplace and the overall missions and goals. This
manager is not giving thought to which of the following roles of the manager?
A) Consuming Research
B) Mentoring
C) Case Management
D) Quality Indicators
E) Organizational Culture -
Answer✓✓
E) Organizational Culture
Quiz____?
Nurse managers are often leaders of change. In order to do this effectively, the
nurse manager should have several practices to enforce this change and achieve
patient safety. Which of the following is NOT an example of enforcing change in the
work environment?
A) Encouraging and participating in the change
movement
B) Following up and asking staff how they viewed
the impact of the change initiative
C) Asking a nurse on the floor how he/she can help
and meet needs
D) Making sure that the task is done as quickly as
possible without regard to reliability -
Answer✓✓
D) Making sure that the task is done as quickly as possible without regard to
reliability
Quiz____?
Page 2 of 27
, Part of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), To Err is Human(2000) identified the number
of deaths attributed to patient safety issues. This resulted in a second report
Crossing the Quality Chasm(2001) identifying six major aims in providing health care
that apply equally to all professions. Which terms are a part of the major aims of
providing health care? Select all that apply.
A. Safe
B. Ineffective
C. Efficient
D. Patient- centered
E. Inequitable -
Answer✓✓
A. Safe
C. Efficient
D. Patient- centered
Quiz____?
James and Susan are new graduates employed in a small community hospital. They
see that practices seem to be very physician driven and that patients have little input
into their care. Families are seen as a nuisance rather than as partners in potential
care provision. What is the best approach James and Susan might use to improve
care in this setting?
A. Do nothing. They are too new to the organization
to make change.
B. Report the team members to the chief nursing
officer who is unlikely to know the lack of details
on this unit.
C. Share with their team members what they know
about the aims of providing health care.
D. Share with the physician the recommendations
from various IOM reports. -
Answer✓✓
C. Share with their team members what they know about the aims of providing
health care.
Quiz____?
Mr. Dennis was admitted to a rehabilitation center after discharge from a hospital. He
has not walked in 5 days while he was hospitalized and is provided a wheelchair.
Dining with other residents is expected, and staffing is limited on a holiday weekend.
What is the best strategy to be sure Mr. Dennis has sufficient nutrition and exercise?
A. Request help from another unit before dinner and
indicate the nature of help needed.
B. Tell Mr. Dennis to stay in bed and someone will
bring a tray to his room because the staff can't
get him to the dining room in time for dinner.
C. Order a lift device to transfer Mr. Dennis from his
bed to the wheelchair.
D. Assist Mr. Dennis into his wheelchair and remind
him that in 2 hours he must be in the dining room
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