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Test Bank for Leading and Managing in CanadianNursing 1st Edition by Yoder Wise
Chapter 04: Developing the Role of Manager
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Role theory has its underpinnings in management theory. Management
theories influence managers’ leadership styles. Which would a nurse
manager be most likely to follow when redesigning the staffing schedule?
a. Theory X
b. Productivity theory
c. Psychological theory
d. Theory Y
,ANS: D
Theory Y is effective in health care and helps reinforce the concept of team.
Because the manager needs to redesign staffing schedules, it would be important to
use this participatory approach, inasmuch as the change involves a group.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply REF: Page 65 (Theory Box) TOP:
Nursing Process: Planning
2. A nurse manager has worked rapidly to persuade the staff to accept
changes in the unit’s mission, so that downsizing can be avoided, through
innovative use of technology. This nurse manager is displaying
a. a focus on past concerns related to the mission.
b. how to teach staff members about self-management.
c. facilitation of goal accomplishment.
d. a requirement that all staff members need to review
and reinforce their technologic skills.
ANS: C
Nurse managers who are successful in motivating staff provide a work environment
that facilitates goal accomplishment and personal satisfaction. In this situation, the
, nurse manager worked quickly to avoid downsizing, thus facilitating the goal
of avoiding staff layoffs.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Analyze REF: Page 57 | Page 65
TOP: Nursing Process: Implementation
3. The nurse manager, as the leader of the unit’s “customer (patient) first”
initiative, has asked the staff nurses to develop and administer a survey to
every patient before discharge. In asking the staff nurses to accomplish
this task, the nurse manager is demonstrating
a. accountability.
b. shared governance.
c. a common purpose.
d. independence in the nursing manager’s role.
ANS: B
Engaging staff and others in decision-making and in obtaining information is
one characteristic of creating a shared governance structure in which nurses are
encouraged to make decisions.
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