LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT: CHAPTER
4|QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS|2025/2026|GRADED A+
1. A new nurse is trying to set her goals for the next five years. She plans to eventually become
an acute care nurse practitioner in the ICU setting. She knows she needs to become more
experienced, obtain appropriate certification, go back to school, and take the practitioner
exam. She would like to see a visual of the time it will take her to realistically accomplish those
goals. She should use which of the following? - ANSWER Gantt chart
2. A task force designed to examine solutions for low patient satisfaction in an emergency
department has decided to write their ideas down, present their ideas to the taskforce, discuss
the ideas, and then privately vote on the ideas. This is an example of which group process? -
ANSWER Nominal group technique
3. A nurse manager decides to form a task force to identify reasons and solutions for patient
dissatisfaction on your unit. What are the advantages of forming this task force? Select all that
apply. - ANSWER -High-quality decision making is possible due to more solutions being
generated.
-Acceptance of decisions is more likely.
-There is access to a larger resource base.
-Ownership of the solution will be promoted.
4. A nurse needs to assist a patient in walking down the hall twice daily as part of the patient's
postoperative activities. It is the middle of the afternoon, and the patient is asleep. The nurse
would like to allow the patient to sleep because the patient was awake a majority of the night.
However, if the nurse does not ambulate the patient now, it is possible that the rest of the
nurse's afternoon activities will prevent her from returning to the patient to ambulate before
the end of her shift. The nurse must decide whether to ambulate the patient now. What is the
next step of the decision-making process? - ANSWER Make the decision
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4|QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT
ANSWERS|2025/2026|GRADED A+
1. A new nurse is trying to set her goals for the next five years. She plans to eventually become
an acute care nurse practitioner in the ICU setting. She knows she needs to become more
experienced, obtain appropriate certification, go back to school, and take the practitioner
exam. She would like to see a visual of the time it will take her to realistically accomplish those
goals. She should use which of the following? - ANSWER Gantt chart
2. A task force designed to examine solutions for low patient satisfaction in an emergency
department has decided to write their ideas down, present their ideas to the taskforce, discuss
the ideas, and then privately vote on the ideas. This is an example of which group process? -
ANSWER Nominal group technique
3. A nurse manager decides to form a task force to identify reasons and solutions for patient
dissatisfaction on your unit. What are the advantages of forming this task force? Select all that
apply. - ANSWER -High-quality decision making is possible due to more solutions being
generated.
-Acceptance of decisions is more likely.
-There is access to a larger resource base.
-Ownership of the solution will be promoted.
4. A nurse needs to assist a patient in walking down the hall twice daily as part of the patient's
postoperative activities. It is the middle of the afternoon, and the patient is asleep. The nurse
would like to allow the patient to sleep because the patient was awake a majority of the night.
However, if the nurse does not ambulate the patient now, it is possible that the rest of the
nurse's afternoon activities will prevent her from returning to the patient to ambulate before
the end of her shift. The nurse must decide whether to ambulate the patient now. What is the
next step of the decision-making process? - ANSWER Make the decision
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