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NURSE LEADERSHIP PRACTICE QUESTIONS EXAM 1 AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
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NURSE LEADERSHIP PRACTICEQUESTIONS EXAM 1 AND ANSWERS
WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
1. What statement is true regarding decision making?
A) It is an analysis of a situation
B) It is closely related to evaluation
C) It involves choosing between courses of action
D) It is dependent upon finding the cause of a problem - ANSWER Ans: C
Feedback: Decision making is a complex cognitive process often defined as choosing a particular course
of action. Problem solving is part of decision making and is a systematic process that focuses on
analyzing a difficult situation. Critical thinking, sometimes referred to as reflective thinking, is related to
evaluation and has a broader scope than decision making and problem solving.
1. Which represents the management functions that are incorporated into the management process?
A) Planning, directing, organizing, staffing, and evaluating
B) Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling
C) Organizing, planning, staffing, directing, and evaluating
D) Organizing, staffing, planning, implementing, and controlling - ANSWER Ans: B
Feedback:
Management functions include planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. These are
incorporated into what is known as the management process.
What is the advantage of recruiting from outside the organization?
A. Promotes long-term retention of employees
B. Tends to increase the number of candidates
,C. Provides well-motivated candidates
D. Attracts well-qualified candidates - ANSWER Ans: B
Feedback: recruiting from outside the organization provides an opportunity to increase the pool of
candidates for positions but is no guarantee that these canddidates will be more qualified or motivated
than those who come from within the organization.
Which information is too much in flux to identify on an organizational chart?
A) Grapevine lines of communication
B) Line and staff authority
C) Span of control
D) Scalar chains - ANSWER Ans: A
Feedback:
The grapevine lines of communication cannot be placed on an organizational chart because they are
constantly in flux. The remaining information is stable and so identified on the chart.
Which statement best describes mentorship?
A) The intensity and duration of relationships are similar in mentorship and
preceptorship
B) Staff cannot be assigned to become mentors. It is a role voluntarily chosen by the mentor
C) "Mentees" must be willing to put aside their personal goals and beliefs in an effort to identify more
closely with their mentor
D) Most nurses will have the opportunity for many mentor relationships during their careers - ANSWER
Ans: B
Feedback:
The mentor makes a conscious decision to assist the protEgE in career development, with the
relationship usually lasting several years. The remaining statements are not accurate regarding
mentorships.
What is employee behavior best reinforced by?
A) Praise from a supervisor
B) An increase in their pay
,C) A personally valued reward
D) Threat of punishment - ANSWER Ans: C
Feedback: Each person is a unique individual who is motivated by different things. The other options lack
that element of personal value.
What is the best combination that characterizes the communication process?
A) Sender-receiver-message
B) Receiver-message-sender
C) Sender-message-receiver
D) Message-sender-receiver - ANSWER Ans: C
Feedback: The combination that best characterizes the communication process is
senderñmessageñreceiver. The other options would result in the likelihood of miscommunication.
1. Which is the first step in the time management process?
A. Completing the highest priority task
B. Allowing enough time for sufficient daily planning
C. Reprioritizing based on new information received
D. Delegating work that cannot be accomplished in a day - ANSWER Ans: B
Feedback: Daily planning is essential if the manager is to manage by efficiency rather than by crisis. The
remaining options are steps that occur after that planning.
Max Weber, as part of the scientific management era, contributed immensely to the development of
organizational theory. Which statement is not representative of his beliefs?
A) Bureaucracy could provide a rational basis for administrative decisions
B) Worker satisfaction was integral to productivity
C) Organization charts could depict the hierarchy of authority
D) Impersonality of interpersonal relationships should exist in organizations - ANSWER Ans: B
Feedback:
Max Webers theories did not address worker satisfaction. The other options do represent the Weber
organizational theory.
, When does communication have the greatest likelihood of being accurately interpreted?
A) More than one mode is used
B) Face-to-face communication is used
C) Written communication is used
D) The sender repeats the message using the same mode - ANSWER Ans: A
Feedback: Using various communication methods in combination increases the likelihood that everyone
in the organization who needs to hear the message actually will hear it. The other options are single
methods.
What did motivational theorist Victor Vroom state?
A) Personal motivators could be separated from job satisfiers
B) People are motivated by three basic needs: achievement, affiliation, and power
C) A manager's assumptions about workers directly affect the intrinsic motivation of the workers
D) Employees' expectations about their work environment or a certain event will affect their behavior -
ANSWER Ans: D
Feedback: This theory is called Vroom's expectancy model.
What would be the most helpful intervention to take to help a new RN adjust to the professional nursing
role?
A) Advise the new RN to avoid confrontations with doctors whenever possible
B) Advise the new RN that this is the real world not the textbook one
C) Be alert to signs and symptoms of the shock phase of role transition
D) Be alert to signs that the new RN has not shed nursing school values - ANSWER Ans: C
Feedback:
Managers should be alert to signs and symptoms of the shock phase of role transition. Managers should
also ensure that some of the new nurses values are supported and encouraged so that work and
academic values can blend. The remaining options do not address the needs of the new RN
appropriately.
A new graduate who began their nursing career 6 months ago and who completed orientation 3 months
ago is in what stage of professional development?
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