ATI Leadership and Management Key
Concepts and Rationales for Nursing
Students | Verified Questions bank
1. What is the difference between leadership and management in nursing? -
ANSWER ✅ Leadership is about guiding and inspiring people, while
management focuses on organizing and controlling tasks.
2. What can a PN do? - ANSWER ✅ Monitor findings, reinforce teaching,
administer medications, and insert urinary catheters.
3. What can Assistive Personnel (AP) do? - ANSWER ✅ Bathing, feeding,
ambulating, and taking vital signs of stable patients.
4. What is staff development? - ANSWER ✅ Education and training that help
nurses improve their skills.
5. What are the stages of nursing ability? - ANSWER ✅ Novice nurse,
advanced beginner, competent nurse, proficient nurse, and expert nurse.
6. What is quality improvement? - ANSWER ✅ A process used to improve
patient care and safety.
7. What is conflict? - ANSWER ✅ A disagreement between individuals or
groups.
,8. What are the categories of conflict? - ANSWER ✅ Intrapersonal,
interpersonal, and intergroup.
9. What are the stages of conflict? - ANSWER ✅ Latent, perceived, felt,
manifest, and aftermath.
10.What are the problem-solving steps for conflict resolution? - ANSWER ✅
Identify the problem, discuss solutions, analyze options, choose a solution,
and evaluate results.
11.What is assertive communication? - ANSWER ✅ Expressing thoughts
clearly and respectfully.
12.What is resource management? - ANSWER ✅ Using staff, equipment, and
money efficiently.
13.What is cost-effective care? - ANSWER ✅ Providing quality care while
avoiding unnecessary costs.
14.Five major management functions - ANSWER ✅ Planning.
Organizing.
Staffing.
Directing.
Controlling.
15.Planning - ANSWER ✅ Decisions regarding what needs to be done, how it
will be done, and who is going to do it.
,16.Organizing - ANSWER ✅ Organizational structure that determines the lines
of authority, channels of communication, and where decisions are made.
17.Staffing - ANSWER ✅ Acquisition and management of adequate staff and
staffing mix
18.Directing - ANSWER ✅ Leadership role assumed by a manager that
influences and motivates staff to perform assigned roles.
19.Controlling - ANSWER ✅ Evaluation of staff performance and evaluation
of unit goals to ensure identified outcomes are being met.
20.Management Qualities - ANSWER ✅ leadership
Clinical Expertise
Business Sense
21.Management Behaviors - ANSWER ✅ Interpersonal
Informational
Decisional
22.interpersonal management skills - ANSWER ✅ networking
conflict negotiation/resolution
employee development
coaching
reward/punishment
23.Informational management skills - ANSWER ✅ spokesperson
monitoring
, reporting
24.Decisional management skills - ANSWER ✅ evaluations
resource allocation
hiring/firing
future planning
job analysis/redesigning
25.Front-line managers - ANSWER ✅ lower-level managers
-primary care nurse
-teams leads
-charge nurse
-care coordinator
26.Middle Managers - ANSWER ✅ supervise/coordinate activities of front-
line managers
-unit manager
-unit supervisor
27.Management Theories - ANSWER ✅ Human Relations-Based
---- theory X and Y
Servant Leadership
28.Theory X management - ANSWER ✅ assumes employees are inherently
lazy and will avoid work
believes that workers need to be closely supervised
employ strict rules, threaten punishment
29.Theory Y management - ANSWER ✅ assumes employees are motivated
and ambitious
Concepts and Rationales for Nursing
Students | Verified Questions bank
1. What is the difference between leadership and management in nursing? -
ANSWER ✅ Leadership is about guiding and inspiring people, while
management focuses on organizing and controlling tasks.
2. What can a PN do? - ANSWER ✅ Monitor findings, reinforce teaching,
administer medications, and insert urinary catheters.
3. What can Assistive Personnel (AP) do? - ANSWER ✅ Bathing, feeding,
ambulating, and taking vital signs of stable patients.
4. What is staff development? - ANSWER ✅ Education and training that help
nurses improve their skills.
5. What are the stages of nursing ability? - ANSWER ✅ Novice nurse,
advanced beginner, competent nurse, proficient nurse, and expert nurse.
6. What is quality improvement? - ANSWER ✅ A process used to improve
patient care and safety.
7. What is conflict? - ANSWER ✅ A disagreement between individuals or
groups.
,8. What are the categories of conflict? - ANSWER ✅ Intrapersonal,
interpersonal, and intergroup.
9. What are the stages of conflict? - ANSWER ✅ Latent, perceived, felt,
manifest, and aftermath.
10.What are the problem-solving steps for conflict resolution? - ANSWER ✅
Identify the problem, discuss solutions, analyze options, choose a solution,
and evaluate results.
11.What is assertive communication? - ANSWER ✅ Expressing thoughts
clearly and respectfully.
12.What is resource management? - ANSWER ✅ Using staff, equipment, and
money efficiently.
13.What is cost-effective care? - ANSWER ✅ Providing quality care while
avoiding unnecessary costs.
14.Five major management functions - ANSWER ✅ Planning.
Organizing.
Staffing.
Directing.
Controlling.
15.Planning - ANSWER ✅ Decisions regarding what needs to be done, how it
will be done, and who is going to do it.
,16.Organizing - ANSWER ✅ Organizational structure that determines the lines
of authority, channels of communication, and where decisions are made.
17.Staffing - ANSWER ✅ Acquisition and management of adequate staff and
staffing mix
18.Directing - ANSWER ✅ Leadership role assumed by a manager that
influences and motivates staff to perform assigned roles.
19.Controlling - ANSWER ✅ Evaluation of staff performance and evaluation
of unit goals to ensure identified outcomes are being met.
20.Management Qualities - ANSWER ✅ leadership
Clinical Expertise
Business Sense
21.Management Behaviors - ANSWER ✅ Interpersonal
Informational
Decisional
22.interpersonal management skills - ANSWER ✅ networking
conflict negotiation/resolution
employee development
coaching
reward/punishment
23.Informational management skills - ANSWER ✅ spokesperson
monitoring
, reporting
24.Decisional management skills - ANSWER ✅ evaluations
resource allocation
hiring/firing
future planning
job analysis/redesigning
25.Front-line managers - ANSWER ✅ lower-level managers
-primary care nurse
-teams leads
-charge nurse
-care coordinator
26.Middle Managers - ANSWER ✅ supervise/coordinate activities of front-
line managers
-unit manager
-unit supervisor
27.Management Theories - ANSWER ✅ Human Relations-Based
---- theory X and Y
Servant Leadership
28.Theory X management - ANSWER ✅ assumes employees are inherently
lazy and will avoid work
believes that workers need to be closely supervised
employ strict rules, threaten punishment
29.Theory Y management - ANSWER ✅ assumes employees are motivated
and ambitious
