NURS 3325 Leading and Managing in Nursing Questions And Answers
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NURS 3325
4. At a second negotiation session, the unit manager and staff nurse are unable
to reach a resolution. It would now be best to:
a. Arrange another meeting in a week's time so as to allow a cooling-off period.
b. Turn the dispute over to the director of nursing.
c. Insist that participants cont...
NURS 3325 Leading and
Managing in Nursing
Questions And Answers
A nurse manager is experiencing poor staff morale on her unit. While
participating in a baccalaureate course, the nurse manager had learned that one
of the reasons nurses lack power today is probably because of the past. In the
early decades of the profession, nurses lacked power because:
a. Nurses freely chose to defer to physicians and administrators with more
education.
b. Women lacked legal, social, and political power because of legal and cultural
barriers.
c. The first nursing licensure laws prohibited nurses from making most
decisions.
d. Nurses astutely recognized the risks of grabbing too much power too soon.
✓~ B
,Nurses who engage in in-fighting, seek physician support against nursing
colleagues, and avoid membership in nursing organizations:
a. Refuse to believe that they are acting like members of groups that suffer
socioeconomic oppression.
b. Do not understand how their failure to exercise power can limit the power of
the whole profession.
c. Purposefully choose to exercise their power in the workplace through indirect
means.
d. Suffer from learned helplessness as a result of abuse by powerful nurse
executives.
✓~ B
A nurse belongs to several professional organizations, serving on a state-level
committee of one group and on two task forces at work. The nurse is committed
to a range of health issues. This nurse exemplifies which level of political
activism in nursing?
a. Gladiator
b. Buy-in
c. Self-interest
,d. Political sophistication
✓~ D
A manager relies on his director (immediate supervisor) for advice about
enrolling in graduate school to prepare for a career as a nurse executive. The
director may exercise what kinds of power in the relationship with the manager
in this advisory situation?
a. Expert, coercive, and referent
b. Reward, connection, and information
c. Referent, expert, and information
d. Reward, referent, and information
✓~ C
A nurse manager must implement a 2% budget cut on the nursing unit. Which
approach should the manager use to most effectively empower the staff of the
unit?
a. Discuss the guidelines for the budget cuts with the staff, making the
decisions with those who participate.
, b. Inform the staff of the budget cuts in a series of small group meetings, and
accept their ideas in writing only.
c. Provide the staff with handouts about the budget cuts, and let them make
recommendations in writing.
d. Hold a series of mandatory meetings on the budget cuts, asking staff for
ideas on the cuts.
✓~ A
During orientation of new nurse managers, the chief nursing officer stresses
strategies that help nurse managers to achieve a powerful image. Which groups
of behaviors best contribute to a powerful image for the nurse manager?
a. Greeting patients, families, and colleagues with a handshake and a smile;
listening carefully when problems arise
b. For men, no facial hair, always wearing a suit and tie; for women, always
wearing a suit and high-heeled shoes
c. Maintaining a soft voice during times of conflict; making unbroken eye contact
during interactions
d. Smiling all the time; always wearing a suit and carrying a briefcase; women
should wear no jewelry
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