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Trends exam # 2
1.What is the difference between leader and manager?
A manager focus on coordinating resources
The leader focuses on accomplishing goal of the organization
The manager motivates and inspires others
A leader has legitimate authority
2. What is the first step in ...
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Trends exam # 2
1.What is the difference between leader and manager?
A manager focus on coordinating resources
The leader focuses on accomplishing goal of the organization
The manager motivates and inspires others
A leader has legitimate authority
2. What is the first step in both the nursing and problem solving process?
Implementing appropriate interventions
Identifying the problem
Gathering information
Considering the consequence of changes
3. Managers who exhibit an authoritative behavioral style are most likely to use which source of
power?
Expert
Reward
Informal
Coercive
4. A nurse manager is concerned with restocking the emergency cart, creating the staff
schedule, requesting floor stock from pharmacy, and checking the orders on patients charts.
Which type of leader accurately describes this nurse?
Contemporary
Transactional
Transformational
Situational
5. A nurse is reading about positive reinforcement with the goal of increasing staff
motivation. Which action would demonstrate positive reinforcement?
Every morning at shift change, thank each employee for an excellent job.
Rotate a monthly "employee recognition award" among all employees on the unit.
Wait until the annual performance review to recognize accomplishments.
Give spur-of-the-moment recognition to an employee who has accomplished a
goal.
6. A nurse manager wants his nursing unit to be a place where all nurses want to work, where
patient satisfaction is high, and care is innovative and interdisciplinary. Staff are encouraged to
chair taskforces to improve quality of care and he counsels staff in areas of measuring patient
outcomes. Other managers want to mimic this manager's approach to improve their own units.
This nurse is which type of leader?
Transformational
Transactional
Authoritative
Laissez faire
7. A manager just finished the last annual performance review of the staff, reviews the
unexpected expenditures for the month due to use of agency nurses, and shares the latest
,quality indicators with the staff nurses. This manager is performing which management
function?
Controlling
Planning
Directing
Organizing
8. A consumer is learning about electronic health records at a local fair and states “i am worried
that someone can read my health information and i really don't understand the difference
between privacy and confidentiality” the nurse provides what as as example of confidentiality?
A teenager who sustains a broken arm and in the emergency department and withholds
information about personal use of recreational drugs
A patient who does not tell the primary health care provider that he or she has been
treated for a sexually transmitted disease
Locking medical records in cabinets to prevent unauthorized user from accessing patient
information
A pledge that states “i will hold matters pertaining to my patients in strict
intimacy”
9. A nurse on a medical surgical unit places her finger to the sensor on a computer in the
hallway and is given access to patient data. A few moments later another nurse performs the
same steps and is granted access. A visitor who has been watching places their finger on the
sensor and receive an error access denied message. How is security maintained in this
example?
Robot technology
Telehealth technology
Biometric technology
Ubiquitous computing
10. A nursing student has aspirations of practicing in a community which has a large population
of mexican american individuals. They enroll in spanish classes while in nursing school. What
does this nursing student value?
Prejudice
Cultural competence
Ethnocentrism
Stereotyping
11. All of the following are barriers to reporting workplace injuries except
Termination
Harassment
Stigmatization
Fatigue
12. A nurse providing care at the bedside received an alert that a patient's stat potassium level
is 2.5 and a dose of digoxin is scheduled. The nurse holds the medication and prevents and
possible complication. This feature of the electronic health record is available through which
function of EHR
Order entry/order management
Decision support
, Patient support
Administrative support
13. What should the RN do when asked to accept a patient assignment that he or she may feel
unqualified to manage?
Determine whether he or she is familiar with the types of patients being assigned
Refuse to take on the assignment
Accept the assignment as appropriate if assigned by a legitimate power
Ask how other nurses have handled the assignment in the past
14. What workplace factor has been found to contribute to the nursing shortage?
Movement of nurses into acute care settings
The use of unlicensed assistive personnel to replace RNs
An aging nursing workforce
A severe lack of males who have chosen nursing as a career
15. What is the key to organization success for healthcare facilities?
Offering incentives such as sign on bonuses
Making effect to retaining practicing professional nurses
Recruiting younger more energetic nurses
Hiring highly qualified advanced practice nurses
16. Which non pharmacological pain measure to help relieve early morning stiffness for a
patient diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis should be delegates to the UAP?
Sharing some relaxation techniques
Assisting patient to get in a bathtub full of warm water
Evaluating the effectiveness of paraffin therapy
Assisting patient to take a warm shower
17. A newly hired nurse is asked to serve on a committee formed to recruit and retain nurses.
What information is the nurse likely to learn at the committee meeting?
Multitasking is seldom desired by the younger generation of nurses
Magnet hospitals are able to attract nurses with sign-on bonuses and flexible work
hours but fail to retain nurses because insufficient autonomy over professional
practice is provided.
multitasking is seldom desired by the younger generation of nurses.
Many younger workers are less concerned with longevity and are willing to
change institutions to achieve professional advancement and flexible work hours.
19. The occupational health and safety nurse would like to develop programs designed to
decrease mortality and morbidity among the workforce. When considering factors related to
mortality among healthcare workers, the nurse should focus efforts on prevention of what most
likely outcome?
Bloodborne disease
Ergonomic hazards
Suicide
Violence related injury
, 20. A healthcare practitioner (HCP) inputs the following clinical manifestation open wound with
tibia exposed, petechial hemorrhage and temporary loss of consciousness into a computer
software program. The computer generates a diagnosis of fat emboli. What is this system
known as?
Decision support
Telehealth
Biometric technology
Robotic technology
21. What is the priority intervention to improve work related quality of life for nurses?
Improving nurse physician communication
Improving working relationships between staff nurses and nursing administration
Requiring professional development courses for bedside nurses
Providing safe harbors for unjust or unsafe work assignment
22. A nurse is interested in locating reliable information concerning noninvasive blood glucose
monitoring. Information is located, and the author is a scientist who conducted studies within the
last year on the effectiveness of a particular noninvasive blood glucose monitor. The scientist
received funding from a pharmaceutical company to support the studies. The URL indicates the
pharmaceutical company site.com. What should the nurse be concerned about with this
information?
Currency
Objectivity
Authority
Accuracy
23. A 60 year old patient who was admitted with pain and vomiting r/t a bowel obstruction, has
had some relief since the insertion of the NG tube reports feeling weak. She seems more
confused compared with her baseline. You observe the NG drainage container has a large
amount of water bile colored fluid. Which laboratory values will you check first?
BUN and creat
platelet and WBC
sodium, potassium, pH
bili, HCT, hgb
24. Which of the following tasks should not be assigned to a UAP?
Transportation a patient off the unit for a procedure
Removing a post op dressing prior to discharge
Gently cleaning the nares around a patient with a NG tube
Taking patients vital signs every 2 hours
25. The relatively new nurse tells you (team leader) that she cannot find any documentation that
shows the time a patient received their last dose of pain medication. What action should occur
first?
Help the new nurse look at the chart and medication administration record
Have the new nurse ask the patient when they last had medication
Speak to the previous shift nurse about the documentation
Tell the new nurse to ask the previous shift nurse before she leaves
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