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Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th Edition, Chapter 01: Leading, Managing, and FollowingYoder-Wise: Chapter 02: Clinical Safety: The Core of Leading, Managing, and FollowingYoder-Wise: Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th Edition, Chapter 03: Leg…R251,57
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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 chang...
Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th Edition Chapter 21: Selecting, Developing, and Evaluating StaffYoderWise: Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update and Recommended Version
Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th Edition Chapter 06: Being an Effective FollowerYoder-Wise: Questions and Correct Answers the Latest Update and Recommended Version
Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th EditionChapter 15-18 : Making Decisions and Solving ProblemsYoder-Wise: , Chapter 18: Leading Change, Chapter 17: Delegating: Authority, Accountability, Respo...
Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th
Edition, Chapter 01: Leading, Managing,
and FollowingYoder-Wise: Chapter 02:
Clinical Safety: The Core of Leading,
Managing, and FollowingYoder-Wise:
Leading and Managing in Nursing, 7th
Edition, Chapter 03: Leg… Questions and
Correct Answers the Latest Update and
Recommended Version
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?
→ b. Engage involved staff at all levels in the decision-making process.
2. A unit manager of a 25-bed medical/surgical area receives a phone call from a nurse who
has called in sick five times in the past month. He tells the manager that he very much wants to
come to work when scheduled but must often care for his wife, who is undergoing treatment
for breast cancer. According to Maslow's need hierarchy theory, what would be the best
approach to satisfying the needs of this nurse, other staff, and patients?
→ d. Work with the nurse, staffing office, and other nurses to arrange his scheduled
→ days off around his wife's treatments.
3. A grievance brought by a staff nurse against the unit manager requires mediation. At the
first mediation session, the staff nurse repeatedly calls the unit manager's actions unfair, and
→ b. The new graduate would benefit from further understanding of her role as a
→ professional, whose influence may affect the decision making of patients,
→ colleagues, and other professionals.
12. The charge nurse walks into Mr. Smith's room and finds him yelling at the LPN. He is
obviously very upset. The charge nurse determines that he has not slept for three nights
because of unrelieved pain levels. The LPN is very upset and calls Mr. Smith an "ugly, old
man." The charge nurse acknowledges the LPN's feelings and concerns and then suggests that
Mr. Smith's behavior was aggressive but was related to lack of sleep and to pain. The charge
nurse asks, "Can you, together with Mr. Smith, determine triggers for the pain and effective
approaches to controlling his pain?" This situation is an example of what?
→ c. Leadership behavior
13. After assessing an older adult patient in long-term care who has been slowly deteriorating
for weeks, the nurse manager calls the family and asks them to come in, as the patient is
dying. What is the most likely basis for the nurse manager's request?
→ d. Experience
14. Chart audits have revealed significant omissions of data that could have legal and
financial guideline ramifications. The unit manager meets with the staff to discuss audit findings
and to find approaches that will address the gaps in charting and achieve desired goals.
What is the manager demonstrating?
→ b. Management
15. A family is keeping vigil at a critically ill patient's bedside. Distant family members call
the unit continuously asking for updates and expressing concern. The nurse speaks with the
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