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Chapter 01: Leading, Managing, and Following Yoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th Edition MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. A nurse manager of a 20-bed medical unit finds that 80% of the patients are older adults. She is asked to assess and adapt the unit to better meet the unique needs of the older adult patient. Using complexity principles, what would be the best approach to take for implementation of this change? a. Leverage the hierarchical management position to get unit staff involved ...

Chapter 03: Legal and Ethical Issues Yoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th Edition MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The manager in the coronary care unit believes an important ethical consideration in performance evaluations is to include the employee’s good qualities and give positive direction for professional growth. What ethical principle does this represent? a. Justice b. Fidelity c. Beneficence d. Nonmaleficence ANS: D Nonmaleficence refers to “doing no harm.” For a nurse man...

hapter 02: Clinical Safety: The Core of Leading, Managing, and Following Yoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th Edition MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. In an effort to control costs and maximize revenues, the Rehabilitation Unit at Cross Hospital reduced the number of its managers and increased the number of units for which each manager was responsible. Within a year, the number of adverse events on the units had doubled. How do the increase in adverse events relate to decreased managers? a....