TEST BANK
Test Bank for Leadership Roles and Management Functions and Nursing
1oth Edition
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,Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical Reasoning:
Requisites for successful leadership and management
Chapter 2 Classical Views of Leadership and Management
Chapter 3 Twenty-First-Century Thinking About Leadership and Management
Chapter 4 Ethical Issues
Chapter 5 Legal and Legislative Issues
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Chapter 6 Patient, Subordinate, Workplace, and Professional Advocacy
Chapter 7 Organizational Planning
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Chapter 8 Planned Change
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Chapter 9 Time Management
Chapter 10 Fiscal Planning and Health-Care Reimbursement
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Chapter 11 Career Planning and Development in Nursing
Chapter 12 Organizational Structure
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Chapter 13 Organizational, Political, and Personal Power
Chapter 14 Organizing Patient Care
,Chapter 15 Employee Recruitment, Selection, Placement, and Indoctrination
Chapter 16 Educating and Socializing Staff in a Learning Organization
Chapter 17 Staffing Needs and Scheduling Policies
Chapter 18 Creating a Motivating Climate
Chapter 19 Organizational, Interpersonal, and Group Communication in Team Building
Chapter 20 Delegation
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Chapter 21 Conflict, Workplace Violence, and Negotiation
Chapter 22 Collective Bargaining, Unionization, and Employment Laws
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Chapter 23 Quality Control in Creating a Culture of Patient Safety
Chapter 24 Performance Appraisal
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Chapter 25 Problem Employees: Rule Breakers, Marginal Employees, and the Chemically or
Psychologically Impaired
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, Marquis Huston: Leadership Roles and Management Functions in Nursing 10th Edition Test Bank
Chapter 1 Decision Making, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, and Clinical
Reasoning: Requisites for successful leadership and management
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 Ans: C
Feedback:
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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
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thinking, is related to evaluation and has a broader scope than decision making and problem
solving.
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2. What
1. A) Its need for implementation time
2. B) Its lack of a step requiring evaluation of results
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3. C) Its failure to gather sufficient data
4. D) Its failure to evaluate alternatives
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Ans: A
Feedback:
The traditional problem-solving model is less effective when time constraints are a
consideration. Decision making can occur without the full analysis required in problem
solving. Because problem solving attempts to identify the root problem in situations, much
time and energy are spent on identifying the real problem.
3. Which of the following statements is true regarding decision making?
1. A) Scientific methods provide identical decisions by different individuals for the
same problems
