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Leadership and Nursing Care Management
LINDELL JOSEPH, DIANE HUBER
8th Edition
, Table of Contents
Part I: Leadership
Chapter 1. Leadership and Management
Principles Chapter 2. Change and Innovation
Chapter 3. Organizational Climate and Culture
Part II: Professionalism
Chapter 4. Managerial Decision Making
Chapter 5. Managing Time and Stress
Chapter 6. Legal and Ethical Issues
Part III: Communication and Relationship Building
Chapter 7. Communication Leadership
Chapter 8. Team Building and Working With Effective Groups
Chapter 9. Delegation in Nursing
Chapter 10. Power and Conflict
Chapter 11. Workplace Diversity
Part IV: Knowledge of the Health Care Environment
Chapter 12. Organizational Structure
Chapter 13. Decentralization and Shared
Governance Chapter 14. Strategic Management
Chapter 15. Professional Practice Models
Chapter 16. Case and Population Case Management
Chapter 17. Evidence-Based Practice: Strategies for Nurse
Leaders Chapter 18. Quality and Safety
Chapter 19. Measuring and Managing Outcomes
Part V: Business Skills
Chapter 20. Prevention of Workplace
Violence Chapter 21. Confronting the
Nursing Shortage Chapter 22. Staffing and
Scheduling
Chapter 23. Budgeting, Productivity, and Costing out Nursing
Chapter 24. Performance Appraisal
Chapter 25. All-Hazards Disaster Preparedness
Chapter 26. Data Management and Clinical
Informatics Chapter 27. Marketing
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, Chapter 01: Leadership and Management
Principles MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Leadership is best defined as:
a. an interpersonal process of participating by encouraging fellowship.
b. delegation of authority and responsibility and the coordination of activities.
c. inspiring people to accomplish goals through support and confidence building.
d. the integration of resources through planning, organizing, and
directing. CORRECT ANSWER: C
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring
confidence and support among followers.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) TOP: Nursing Process:
Assessment MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment:
Management of Care
2. A medical-surgical unit reports higher rates of patient satisfaction coupled with
high rates of staff satisfaction and productivity. Which of the following is attributed
to the data findings?
a. Effective leadership
b. Management involvement
c. Mentoring
d. Rewards and
recognition CORRECT
ANSWER: A
Effective leadership is important in nursing because of the impact on nurses’
work lives, it being a stabilizing influence during change, and for nurses’
productivity and quality of care. DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) TOP:
Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
3. A staff registered nurse (RN) is leading a multidisciplinary clinical pathway team in
the development of care for patients with total knee replacement. Which of the
following statements exemplifies leadership behaviors in a clinical pathway team
meeting?
a. ―Nursing is responsible for pain control of the total knee replacement patient.‖
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, b. ―Our pharmacist has provided some excellent pain control literature.‖
c. ―Physical therapy’s expertise is in rehabilitation, not pain control.‖
d. ―Total knee replacement patients require optimal pain control.‖
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring
confidence and support among followers. The correct answer is supportive of a team
member’s work and depicts some skill at interpersonal relationships.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral
Therapies
4. Which of the following is true of management activities?
a. Inspiring a vision is a management function.
b. Management is focused on task accomplishment.
c. Management is more focused on human relationships.
d. Management is more important than
leadership. CORRECT ANSWER: B
Management is focused on task accomplishment.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) TOP: Nursing Process:
Assessment MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment:
Management of Care
5. During a staff meeting, a group of RNs has complained that medications are not
arriving to the unit in a timely manner. The nurse manager suggests that the group
resolve this issue through the development and work of a multidisciplinary team led
by one of these RNs. This scenario demonstrates:
a. adaptation.
b. empowerment.
c. flexibility.
d. relationship
management. CORRECT
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Leadership and Nursing Care Management
LINDELL JOSEPH, DIANE HUBER
8th Edition
, Table of Contents
Part I: Leadership
Chapter 1. Leadership and Management
Principles Chapter 2. Change and Innovation
Chapter 3. Organizational Climate and Culture
Part II: Professionalism
Chapter 4. Managerial Decision Making
Chapter 5. Managing Time and Stress
Chapter 6. Legal and Ethical Issues
Part III: Communication and Relationship Building
Chapter 7. Communication Leadership
Chapter 8. Team Building and Working With Effective Groups
Chapter 9. Delegation in Nursing
Chapter 10. Power and Conflict
Chapter 11. Workplace Diversity
Part IV: Knowledge of the Health Care Environment
Chapter 12. Organizational Structure
Chapter 13. Decentralization and Shared
Governance Chapter 14. Strategic Management
Chapter 15. Professional Practice Models
Chapter 16. Case and Population Case Management
Chapter 17. Evidence-Based Practice: Strategies for Nurse
Leaders Chapter 18. Quality and Safety
Chapter 19. Measuring and Managing Outcomes
Part V: Business Skills
Chapter 20. Prevention of Workplace
Violence Chapter 21. Confronting the
Nursing Shortage Chapter 22. Staffing and
Scheduling
Chapter 23. Budgeting, Productivity, and Costing out Nursing
Chapter 24. Performance Appraisal
Chapter 25. All-Hazards Disaster Preparedness
Chapter 26. Data Management and Clinical
Informatics Chapter 27. Marketing
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, Chapter 01: Leadership and Management
Principles MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Leadership is best defined as:
a. an interpersonal process of participating by encouraging fellowship.
b. delegation of authority and responsibility and the coordination of activities.
c. inspiring people to accomplish goals through support and confidence building.
d. the integration of resources through planning, organizing, and
directing. CORRECT ANSWER: C
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring
confidence and support among followers.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) TOP: Nursing Process:
Assessment MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment:
Management of Care
2. A medical-surgical unit reports higher rates of patient satisfaction coupled with
high rates of staff satisfaction and productivity. Which of the following is attributed
to the data findings?
a. Effective leadership
b. Management involvement
c. Mentoring
d. Rewards and
recognition CORRECT
ANSWER: A
Effective leadership is important in nursing because of the impact on nurses’
work lives, it being a stabilizing influence during change, and for nurses’
productivity and quality of care. DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) TOP:
Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
3. A staff registered nurse (RN) is leading a multidisciplinary clinical pathway team in
the development of care for patients with total knee replacement. Which of the
following statements exemplifies leadership behaviors in a clinical pathway team
meeting?
a. ―Nursing is responsible for pain control of the total knee replacement patient.‖
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, b. ―Our pharmacist has provided some excellent pain control literature.‖
c. ―Physical therapy’s expertise is in rehabilitation, not pain control.‖
d. ―Total knee replacement patients require optimal pain control.‖
CORRECT ANSWER: B
Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish goals by inspiring
confidence and support among followers. The correct answer is supportive of a team
member’s work and depicts some skill at interpersonal relationships.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) TOP: Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral
Therapies
4. Which of the following is true of management activities?
a. Inspiring a vision is a management function.
b. Management is focused on task accomplishment.
c. Management is more focused on human relationships.
d. Management is more important than
leadership. CORRECT ANSWER: B
Management is focused on task accomplishment.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge) TOP: Nursing Process:
Assessment MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment:
Management of Care
5. During a staff meeting, a group of RNs has complained that medications are not
arriving to the unit in a timely manner. The nurse manager suggests that the group
resolve this issue through the development and work of a multidisciplinary team led
by one of these RNs. This scenario demonstrates:
a. adaptation.
b. empowerment.
c. flexibility.
d. relationship
management. CORRECT
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