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NURS 3720: Leadership Exam
What is leadership? - . . 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? - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Ensuring that people
have the necessary resources to get the job done
What is followership? - . . 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? - . .
ANSWER ✓✓ - It is associated with how people question and
solve problems
- 1. definition, 2. discovery, 3. dream, 4. design, and 5. destiny
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What is trait leadership theory? - . . 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? - . . 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? - . .
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? - . .
ANSWER ✓✓ - Leaders and followers set higher goals and work
together to achieve them
- Idealized, Influence, Individuated consideration, and
Inspirational motivation
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What are authentic leadership theories? - . . 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? - . . ANSWER ✓✓ - Taylor
(1947): the founder of "scientific management" and the "efficiency
movement"
- Mintzberg (1990): organizational structures and processes
- Followership theories
What is complexity science? - . . 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? - . . ANSWER ✓✓ - Managing the business
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- Leading within
- Leading people
What are some key competencies for nurse leaders in the 21st
century? - . . 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? - . . 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: - . . ANSWER
✓✓ - Address new health challenges by using technology to
retrieve the best available evidence
- Communicate findings and changes
NURS 3720: Leadership Exam
What is leadership? - . . 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? - . . ANSWER ✓✓ Ensuring that people
have the necessary resources to get the job done
What is followership? - . . 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? - . .
ANSWER ✓✓ - It is associated with how people question and
solve problems
- 1. definition, 2. discovery, 3. dream, 4. design, and 5. destiny
,2|Page
What is trait leadership theory? - . . 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? - . . 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? - . .
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? - . .
ANSWER ✓✓ - Leaders and followers set higher goals and work
together to achieve them
- Idealized, Influence, Individuated consideration, and
Inspirational motivation
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What are authentic leadership theories? - . . 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? - . . ANSWER ✓✓ - Taylor
(1947): the founder of "scientific management" and the "efficiency
movement"
- Mintzberg (1990): organizational structures and processes
- Followership theories
What is complexity science? - . . 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? - . . ANSWER ✓✓ - Managing the business
, 4|Page
- Leading within
- Leading people
What are some key competencies for nurse leaders in the 21st
century? - . . 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? - . . 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: - . . ANSWER
✓✓ - Address new health challenges by using technology to
retrieve the best available evidence
- Communicate findings and changes
