NURSING 208 -LEADERSHIP -EXAM 1
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A nurse manager is reviewing data from the unit. More than 50% of new nurses hired left within
1 year of being hired. Which of the following implementations should the nurse manager
consider to improve retention of newly hired nurses?
A. Increase the length of time new hires spend in training.
B. Conduct a performance review at 3, 6, and 9 months to review the new nurse's weaknesses.
C. Stress the importance of continuity of care to new hires.
D. Build the manager's own leadership skills through building relationships with staff members.
D. Build the manager's own leadership skills through building relationships with staff members.
To be effective, a nurse manager needs both managerial and leadership skills. Interpersonal
activities have many concerns that overlap both leaders and managers. However, some
interpersonal activities are needed by nurse managers, but are not specific duties of leaders.
Which of the following is an interpersonal activity of nurse managers, but not necessarily all
nurse leaders?
A. Coaching
B. Resource allocation
C. Planning for the future
D. Monitoring
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,A. Coaching
Which of the following recommendations is best for a new nurse manager?
A. Work hard at becoming the type of manager your staff wants you to be, but balance this with
becoming the type of manager your administration wants you to be.
B. Remember it can take 6 months to feel comfortable in a new position.
C. Start out with mentoring other new nurse managers.
D. Engage in extensive personal development.
D. Engage in extensive personal development.
A new nurse graduate is considering her future career path. She thinks she wants to eventually
become a nurse manager. When should she consider applying for a position as a nurse
manager?
A. When she is comfortable in her current position
B. When she begins mentoring other new nurses
C. As soon as a position opens
D. When she has developed leadership and clinical expertise
D. When she has developed leadership and clinical expertise
Nursing has its origins with
A. Florence Nightingale
B. The Knights of Columbus
C. Religious orders
D. Wars and battles
C. Religious orders
Who stated that the "function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the
performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death)?
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, A. Henderson
B. Rogers
C. Robb
D. Nightingale
D. Nightingale
You are participating in a clinical care coordination conference for a patient with terminal
cancer. You talk with your colleagues about using the nursing code of ethics for professional
registered nurses to guide care decisions. A non-nursing colleague asks about this code. Which
of the following statements best describes this code?
A. Improves communication between the nurse and the patient
B. Protects the patient's right of autonomy
C. Ensures identical care to all patients
D. Acts as a guide for professional behaviors in giving patient care
D. Acts as a guide for professional behaviors in giving patient care
The NCLEX for nurses is exactly the same in every state in the United States. The examination:
A. guarantees safe nursing care for all patients
B. Ensures standard nursing care for all patients
C. Ensures that honest and ethical care is provided
D. Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for a registered nurse in practice
D. Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for a registered nurse in practice
APRNs generally: Select all that apply.
A. Function independently
B. Function as unit directors
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WITH ACTUAL CORRECT QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED DETAILED ANSWERS
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SOLUTIONS|ALREADY GRADED
A+|NEWEST |BRAND NEW VERSION|JUST
RELEASED!!
A nurse manager is reviewing data from the unit. More than 50% of new nurses hired left within
1 year of being hired. Which of the following implementations should the nurse manager
consider to improve retention of newly hired nurses?
A. Increase the length of time new hires spend in training.
B. Conduct a performance review at 3, 6, and 9 months to review the new nurse's weaknesses.
C. Stress the importance of continuity of care to new hires.
D. Build the manager's own leadership skills through building relationships with staff members.
D. Build the manager's own leadership skills through building relationships with staff members.
To be effective, a nurse manager needs both managerial and leadership skills. Interpersonal
activities have many concerns that overlap both leaders and managers. However, some
interpersonal activities are needed by nurse managers, but are not specific duties of leaders.
Which of the following is an interpersonal activity of nurse managers, but not necessarily all
nurse leaders?
A. Coaching
B. Resource allocation
C. Planning for the future
D. Monitoring
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,A. Coaching
Which of the following recommendations is best for a new nurse manager?
A. Work hard at becoming the type of manager your staff wants you to be, but balance this with
becoming the type of manager your administration wants you to be.
B. Remember it can take 6 months to feel comfortable in a new position.
C. Start out with mentoring other new nurse managers.
D. Engage in extensive personal development.
D. Engage in extensive personal development.
A new nurse graduate is considering her future career path. She thinks she wants to eventually
become a nurse manager. When should she consider applying for a position as a nurse
manager?
A. When she is comfortable in her current position
B. When she begins mentoring other new nurses
C. As soon as a position opens
D. When she has developed leadership and clinical expertise
D. When she has developed leadership and clinical expertise
Nursing has its origins with
A. Florence Nightingale
B. The Knights of Columbus
C. Religious orders
D. Wars and battles
C. Religious orders
Who stated that the "function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the
performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death)?
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, A. Henderson
B. Rogers
C. Robb
D. Nightingale
D. Nightingale
You are participating in a clinical care coordination conference for a patient with terminal
cancer. You talk with your colleagues about using the nursing code of ethics for professional
registered nurses to guide care decisions. A non-nursing colleague asks about this code. Which
of the following statements best describes this code?
A. Improves communication between the nurse and the patient
B. Protects the patient's right of autonomy
C. Ensures identical care to all patients
D. Acts as a guide for professional behaviors in giving patient care
D. Acts as a guide for professional behaviors in giving patient care
The NCLEX for nurses is exactly the same in every state in the United States. The examination:
A. guarantees safe nursing care for all patients
B. Ensures standard nursing care for all patients
C. Ensures that honest and ethical care is provided
D. Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for a registered nurse in practice
D. Provides a minimal standard of knowledge for a registered nurse in practice
APRNs generally: Select all that apply.
A. Function independently
B. Function as unit directors
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