Management and Leadership HESI Practice Questions and answers 2023

Management and Leadership HESI Practice Questions and answers 2023The student nurse is shadowing on a medical/surgical unit and observes the duties of the charge nurse. Which of the following would the student identify as a quality attributed to a nurse in a leadership role? A. Delays admission from emergency department until staff has appropriately educated a newly diagnosed diabetic patient on insulin administration. B. Spends time with a newly diagnosed lung cancer patient to allow him to communicate his future health concerns. C. Reevaluates staffing needs after one RN "calls in sick." D. Counsels a UAP (unlicensed assistive personnel) after arriving late for work the third time that week. - correct answer B. Spends time with a newly diagnosed lung cancer patient to allow him to communicate his future health concerns. Rationale: Leaders do the right thing. Therefore focus on effectiveness whereas a manager focuses on efficiencies. Which of the following is NOT a task or responsibility of the first-level manager? Staff assignments for patient care during shifts Conducting staff meetings Making daily patient rounds Initiate changes to unit policies based on current evidence - correct answer Initiate changes to unit policies based on current evidence Rationale: Initiating change to the unit policies based on current evidence is done by the middle-level manage. The other options describe tasks of the first-level manager. A new nurse is interviewed at a facility where various models of patient care delivery are used. The nurse is interested in developing clinical decision-making skills. After the interview, the nurse determines the best position for enhancing those skills is the unit that uses which of the following models? Primary nursing Team nursing Functional nursing Case management - correct answer Primary Nursing In primary nursing, clinical decision making is focused at the bedside by the nurse administering the care. The other options are a patient care delivery model whose focus is not bedside decision making. Which of the following is NOT an example of the behavioral theory of leadership? Democratic leader Republican leader Laissez faire leader Bureaucratic leader - correct answer Republican Leader Republican is a political party not a behavioral characteristic. The others are behavioral characteristics. An agency nurse is assigned to work on a unit that uses the team nursing model of health care delivery. The nurse understands that the advantage to patient care delivery in this model is that the nurse must make all patient care decisions.