NURSING 342 EXAM 1 LATEST EXAM 250+
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) 2025/2026
What are the guiding principles for nursing leadership? - ANSWER ✔✔- •The
guiding principles for the future of nursing come from the IOM report. The future
of Nursing : Leading change, advancing health, which recommends that nurses
play a large role in shaping health care In the United States
What does leadership involve? - ANSWER ✔✔- •Leadership involves influencing
attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and feelings of other people
What are the most valuable followers? - ANSWER ✔✔- •The most valuable
followers are skilled, self-directed employees who actively participate in setting
the group's direction
How does the AACN help with leadership? - ANSWER ✔✔- •AACN (American
Association of Colleges of Nursing) recognizes the need to incorporate more
leadership development in graduate & undergraduate nursing programs.
--Leadership is required for all nursing positions.
How does the ANA help with leadership? - ANSWER ✔✔- •ANA states that
leadership is a critical part of the nursing profession. Every nurse needs to develop
at least some degree of leadership competence.
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,How does the AONE help with leadership? - ANSWER ✔✔- •AONE [Association
of Nursing Executives] states that nursing leadership plays a very important role in
creating the work environment that attracts and keeps nurses.
--Leaders need to empower their staff, support staff, and not be punitive with staff.
Lead, guide, and educate.
what is the chief nursing officer in charge of? - ANSWER ✔✔- responsible for
ALL the nursing departments
what is the Chief operating officers (COO) in charge of? - ANSWER ✔✔- works
side by side & takes care of other departments (dietary, housekeeping)
what is the Chief executive officers (CEO) in charge of? - ANSWER ✔✔-
strategist, strategy & ideas for growth and maintenance of organization
what is the magnet nursing services recognition program - ANSWER ✔✔- -
Developed unexpectedly as a result of study in 1981
-The study explored variables that helped some hospitals create a magnet or force
that assisted in the recruitment and retention of nurses.
The process of recognition - ANSWER ✔✔- there are four major phases (staff
nurses need to be included in all phases): 1) application and designation process, 2)
documentation review when the hospital sends required documentation to ANCC
for review, 3) the site visit, and 4) review and decision
Magnet Hospitals - ANSWER ✔✔- --More magnet hospitals have discrete
departments of nursing. This might be more supportive of an organization that
supports and respects nursing.
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,--These hospitals also had more doctorally prepared nurse researchers who
supported staff
--Nurses are central in magnet recognition
what are the 14 forces of magnetism? - ANSWER ✔✔- 1.Quality of nursing
leadership
2.Organizational structure
3.Management style
4.Personnel policies and programs - how do we support our nurses, their families?
Work/life balance
5.Professional models of care
6.Quality of care
7.Quality Improvement
8.Consultations and resources
9.Autonomy - Do the nurses get a voice?
10.Community and the health organization - community outreach
11.Nurses as teachers
12.Image of nursing - considered drain of finances, or considered the backbone of
the hospital
13.Interdisciplinary relationship - nurturing and supportive or arguing all the time?
14.Professional development
History of Nursing Leadership - ANSWER ✔✔- •Leadership is the ability to hide
your panic from others
•Ability to take an average team of individuals and transform them into superstars.
The best leader is the one who inspires workers to achieve greatness each and
every day.
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, •Influencing others by your character, humility, and example. It is recognizable
when others follow in word and deed without obligation or coercion.
•The ability to inspire motivation in others to move towards a desirable vision.
While management is focused on tasks, leadership is focused on the person...
Characteristics of Acute Care Hospitals - ANSWER ✔✔- •Public access - Iberia
Medical Center, UMC charity hospital
•Ownership - privately owned, maybe by doctors or private corporation
•Number of beds - critical access hospital (not many beds, basic services)
•Length of stay - DRG (Diagnosis related grouping) decides how long pt stay is for
Dx so hospital can be reimbursed
•Accreditation - Joint Commission gives the "gold seal of approval"
•Licensure - from state organizations; Department of Health and Hospitals
•Teaching Hospitals - LSU & Tulane have hospitals associated with them (for
students)
•Vertical integration - if a hospital is struggling financially another with help
"absorb" (will get into more detail later, just be aware)
•Multi-hospital-system organization - 2 hospitals working together for services
(don't have to be owned/ operated by the same company)
Examples of Change in Health Care Environment - ANSWER ✔✔- •Medical
knowledge and technology (causes an issue with older nurses, lots of fast changes)
•Increased use of information technology
•Managed care and reimbursement - different reimbursement structures
•Care across the continuum - use to just isolate and treat particular issue, now we
have a more holistic approach, looking at health from birth to death
•Uninsured (no insurance) & under insured (I have insurance, but it won't cover
this)
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QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) 2025/2026
What are the guiding principles for nursing leadership? - ANSWER ✔✔- •The
guiding principles for the future of nursing come from the IOM report. The future
of Nursing : Leading change, advancing health, which recommends that nurses
play a large role in shaping health care In the United States
What does leadership involve? - ANSWER ✔✔- •Leadership involves influencing
attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and feelings of other people
What are the most valuable followers? - ANSWER ✔✔- •The most valuable
followers are skilled, self-directed employees who actively participate in setting
the group's direction
How does the AACN help with leadership? - ANSWER ✔✔- •AACN (American
Association of Colleges of Nursing) recognizes the need to incorporate more
leadership development in graduate & undergraduate nursing programs.
--Leadership is required for all nursing positions.
How does the ANA help with leadership? - ANSWER ✔✔- •ANA states that
leadership is a critical part of the nursing profession. Every nurse needs to develop
at least some degree of leadership competence.
1|Page
,How does the AONE help with leadership? - ANSWER ✔✔- •AONE [Association
of Nursing Executives] states that nursing leadership plays a very important role in
creating the work environment that attracts and keeps nurses.
--Leaders need to empower their staff, support staff, and not be punitive with staff.
Lead, guide, and educate.
what is the chief nursing officer in charge of? - ANSWER ✔✔- responsible for
ALL the nursing departments
what is the Chief operating officers (COO) in charge of? - ANSWER ✔✔- works
side by side & takes care of other departments (dietary, housekeeping)
what is the Chief executive officers (CEO) in charge of? - ANSWER ✔✔-
strategist, strategy & ideas for growth and maintenance of organization
what is the magnet nursing services recognition program - ANSWER ✔✔- -
Developed unexpectedly as a result of study in 1981
-The study explored variables that helped some hospitals create a magnet or force
that assisted in the recruitment and retention of nurses.
The process of recognition - ANSWER ✔✔- there are four major phases (staff
nurses need to be included in all phases): 1) application and designation process, 2)
documentation review when the hospital sends required documentation to ANCC
for review, 3) the site visit, and 4) review and decision
Magnet Hospitals - ANSWER ✔✔- --More magnet hospitals have discrete
departments of nursing. This might be more supportive of an organization that
supports and respects nursing.
2|Page
,--These hospitals also had more doctorally prepared nurse researchers who
supported staff
--Nurses are central in magnet recognition
what are the 14 forces of magnetism? - ANSWER ✔✔- 1.Quality of nursing
leadership
2.Organizational structure
3.Management style
4.Personnel policies and programs - how do we support our nurses, their families?
Work/life balance
5.Professional models of care
6.Quality of care
7.Quality Improvement
8.Consultations and resources
9.Autonomy - Do the nurses get a voice?
10.Community and the health organization - community outreach
11.Nurses as teachers
12.Image of nursing - considered drain of finances, or considered the backbone of
the hospital
13.Interdisciplinary relationship - nurturing and supportive or arguing all the time?
14.Professional development
History of Nursing Leadership - ANSWER ✔✔- •Leadership is the ability to hide
your panic from others
•Ability to take an average team of individuals and transform them into superstars.
The best leader is the one who inspires workers to achieve greatness each and
every day.
3|Page
, •Influencing others by your character, humility, and example. It is recognizable
when others follow in word and deed without obligation or coercion.
•The ability to inspire motivation in others to move towards a desirable vision.
While management is focused on tasks, leadership is focused on the person...
Characteristics of Acute Care Hospitals - ANSWER ✔✔- •Public access - Iberia
Medical Center, UMC charity hospital
•Ownership - privately owned, maybe by doctors or private corporation
•Number of beds - critical access hospital (not many beds, basic services)
•Length of stay - DRG (Diagnosis related grouping) decides how long pt stay is for
Dx so hospital can be reimbursed
•Accreditation - Joint Commission gives the "gold seal of approval"
•Licensure - from state organizations; Department of Health and Hospitals
•Teaching Hospitals - LSU & Tulane have hospitals associated with them (for
students)
•Vertical integration - if a hospital is struggling financially another with help
"absorb" (will get into more detail later, just be aware)
•Multi-hospital-system organization - 2 hospitals working together for services
(don't have to be owned/ operated by the same company)
Examples of Change in Health Care Environment - ANSWER ✔✔- •Medical
knowledge and technology (causes an issue with older nurses, lots of fast changes)
•Increased use of information technology
•Managed care and reimbursement - different reimbursement structures
•Care across the continuum - use to just isolate and treat particular issue, now we
have a more holistic approach, looking at health from birth to death
•Uninsured (no insurance) & under insured (I have insurance, but it won't cover
this)
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