1. Which of the statements is most accurate?
Answer
Managers have formal leadership titles in the organization; leaders are often informal leaders.
2. The nurse manager tends to make most unit decisions without consulting the nursing staff.
Which word best describes this style of leadership?
Answer
Authoritarian
3. The chair of a hospital committee acts as a facilitator and provides constructive criticism,
information, and suggestions. Which style of leadership does this represent?
Answer
Democratic
4. The manager of an E.R. tries to involve staff in department decisions. However, when a
mass casualty situation arises, the nurse becomes very directive. What style of leadership is
described?
Answer
Situational
5. The staff members of a unit are inspired by their nurse-managers leadership and enjoy
working to create a positive nursing environment of the units patients. What style of leadership
does this describe?
Answer
Transformational
6. Which option characterizes the Laissez-faire style of leadership?
Answer
The group leader is passive, allowing the group to work on goals independently.
,7. Which option characterizes the charismatic style of leadership?
Answer
The man- ager has a close relatoinship with the nurses on the unit and is an inspiration for them
to provide quality care.
8. Which option characterizes the situational style of leadership?
Answer
The leader provides dirrection and suppor according to the level of the maturity of the group
members.
9. The nurse has been hired by the organization to direct the work of other nurses. What is the
term best used to describe the type of power the nurse will hold?
Answer
Authority
10. What must the nurse consider when delegating responsibility to another?-
Answer
The clients needs, the skill level of the worker, the clients goals,
11. The home health nurse visits the client 3 times a week, assess for health changes, setes up
weekly medications for the client, and changes the clients leg dressing. Which type of nursing
delivery model is this?
Answer
total patient care.
12. On the nursing unit, one nurse is assigned to administer medications to all the clients.
Another nurse provides all treatments such as dressing changes. Another nurse manages all
invasive lines. What type of nursing delivery model is this?
Answer
Functional care
13. The nursing unit uses a method for nursing care delivery in which nursing assistants and
, LPNs provide care to a group of clients on one section of the unit. Another group of nursing
assistants and LPNs provide care to a different set of clients on a different section of the unit. Both
groups of staff provide care
under the supervision of an RN. Which type of nursing care delivery model is this?
Answer
Team nursing
14. Which is true of primary nursing?
Answer
The nurse is responsible for total care of assigned clients
15. Which option most closely demonstrates the concept of shared gover- nance in a health
care organization?
Answer
the nurse is asked to serve on one of the strategic planning committees of the hospital
16. which options reflect nurse manager roles related to shared governance?-
Answer
the nurse manager holds a meeting for the purpose of discussing the organizations new mission
statement with staff, the nurse manager collaborates with the unit medical director on a protocol
for client care, the nurse manager serves on a committee that is writing new policies for infection
control measures in the institution.
17. The nurse has read about a clinical innovation that is evidencebased. The nurse is
developing a positive attitude about the use of this innovation. Which stage of Roger's theory
ofdiffusion of innovation does this reflect?
Answer
Persuasion
18. How can power be defined?
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