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LEADERSHIP AND NURSING CARE MANAGEMENT 7TH EDITION HUBER’S TESTBANK
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LEADERSHIP AND NURSING CARE MANAGEMENT 7THEDITION HUBER’S TESTBANK
,Chapter 01: Leadership and Management Principles
Huber: Leadership & Nursing Care Management, 7th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Leadership is best defined as:
a. an interpersonal process of participating by encouraging fellowship.
b. delegation of authority and responsibility and the coordination of activities.
c. inspiring people to accomplish goals through support and confidence building.
d. the integration of resources through planning, organizing, and directing.
CORRECT CHOICE:- C
ELABORATION :->>>> Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish
goals by inspiring confidenceand support among followers.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
TOPIC:Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
2. A medical-surgical unit reports higher rates of client satisfaction coupled with high rates of
staff satisfaction and productivity. Which of the following is attributed to the data findings?
a. Effective leadership
b. Management involvement
c. Mentoring
d. Rewards and recognition
CORRE
CT
CHOICE
:- A
ELABORATION :->>>> Effective leadership is important in nursing because of the impact
on professional nurses’ work lives, it being a stabilizing influence during change, and for
professional nurses’ productivity and quality of care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application)
TOPIC:Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
3. A staff registered professional nurse (RN) is leading a multidisciplinary clinical
pathway team in thedevelopment of care for clients with total knee replacement. Which
of the following statements exemplifies leadership behaviors in a clinical pathway team
meeting?
a. “Nursing is responsible for pain control of the total knee replacement client.”
b. “Our pharmacist has provided some excellent pain control literature.”
c. “Physical therapy’s expertise is in rehabilitation, not pain control.”
d. “Total knee replacement clients require optimal pain control.”
CORRECT CHOICE:- B
ELABORATION :->>>> Leadership is the process of influencing people to accomplish
goals by inspiring confidence and support among followers. The correct answer is supportive
of a team member’s work anddepicts some skill at interpersonal relationships.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application)
TOPIC:Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Pharmacological and Parenteral Therapies
,4. Which of the following is true of management activities?
a. Inspiring a vision is a management function.
b. Management is focused on task accomplishment.
c. Management is more focused on human relationships.
d. Management is more important than leadership.
CORRECT CHOICE:- B
ELABORATION :->>>> Management is focused on task accomplishment.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
TOPIC:Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
5. During a staff meeting, a group of RNs has complained that medications are not arriving to
the unit in a timely manner. The professional nurse manager suggests that the group resolve
this issue through the development and work of a multidisciplinary team led by one of these
RNs. Thisscenario demonstrates:
a. adaptation.
b. empowerment.
c. flexibility.
d. relationship management.
CORRECT CHOICE:- B
ELABORATION :->>>> Empowerment is the giving of authority, responsibility, and
the freedom to act. In this situation, the manager has given authority, responsibility,
and the freedom to act in the investigation and resolution of this issue.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply N
(ApRplicaI
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)
TOPIC:Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
6. A professional nurse is caring for an elderly client who was admitted after sustaining a fall at
home. When creating a care plan for the client, she requests that the doctor order a home
health visit to assess for home safety and medication compliance. In addition, the professional
nurse is concerned about the nutrition of the client and requests a dietitian evaluation. The
professional nurse is demonstrating which of the following leadership skills?
a. Care provider
b. Business principles
c. Care coordination
d. Change management
CORRECT CHOICE:- C
ELABORATION :->>>> Care coordination is the delivery of nursing services that
involves the organization andcoordination of complex activities. The professional
nurse uses managerial and leadership skills to facilitate delivery of quality care.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Apply (Application) TOPIC:Nursing Process:
PlanningMSC: Client Needs: Physiological Integrity: Reduction of Risk Potential
7. Interpersonal communication and the ability to apply are two critical skills every
professional nurse needs to enhance professional practice.
a. vision
, b. supervision
c. delegation
d. problem solving
CORRECT CHOICE:- D
ELABORATION :->>>> Every professional nurse needs two critical skills to enhance
professional practice. One is a skill at interpersonal relationships. This is fundamental to
leadership and the work of nursing. The second skill is applying the problem-solving
process. This involves critical thinking, problemidentification, and the development of
objectivity.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
TOPIC:Nursing Process: Assessment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
8. Good leaders need to be able to demonstrate an intuitive skill of empathy and expressiveness
when dealing with others in the workplace. This requires sensitivity and awareness of the
emotions and moods of others and is known as:
a. social awareness.
b. self-awareness.
c. self-management.
d. relationship management.
CORRECT CHOICE:- A
ELABORATION :->>>> Social awareness is an intuitive skill of empathy and
expressiveness in being sensitive andaware of the emotions and moods of others.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
TOPIC: Nursing Process: AssessN
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ment
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Environment: Management of Care
9. The personal leadership skill for professional nurses that consists of self-awareness,
discipline, motivation, social awareness, and relationship management is known as what?
a. Leadership.
b. Management.
c. Emotional intelligence
d. Vision
CORRECT CHOICE:- C
ELABORATION :->>>> Among the important personal leadership skills for professional
nurses is emotional intelligence (EI). EItraits are emotional factors consisting of five
defining attributes: self-awareness,
self-regulation or discipline, motivation, social awareness, and relationship management.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Remember (Knowledge)
TOPIC:Nursing Process: Implementation
MSC: Client Needs: Safe and Effective Care Environment: Management of Care
10. are vital to good leaders because they are able to take the vision of the leader and
achieve the determined goals.
a. Managers
b. Motivators
c. Visionaries
d. Followers
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