LEADING AND MANAGING IN NURSING
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS FULLY VERIFIED
●● Nurses who engage in in-fighting, seek physician support against
nursing colleagues, and avoid membership in nursing organizations:
a. Refuse to believe that they are acting like members of groups that
suffer socioeconomic oppression.
b. Do not understand how their failure to exercise power can limit the
power of the whole profession.
c. Purposefully choose to exercise their power in the workplace through
indirect means.
d. Suffer from learned helplessness as a result of abuse by powerful
nurse executives.. Answer: B
●● A nurse belongs to several professional organizations, serving on a
state-level committee of one group and on two task forces at work. The
nurse is committed to a range of health issues. This nurse exemplifies
which level of political activism in nursing?
a. Gladiator
b. Buy-in
c. Self-interest
d. Political sophistication. Answer: D
, ●● A manager relies on his director (immediate supervisor) for advice
about enrolling in graduate school to prepare for a career as a nurse
executive. The director may exercise what kinds of power in the
relationship with the manager in this advisory situation?
a. Expert, coercive, and referent
b. Reward, connection, and information
c. Referent, expert, and information
d. Reward, referent, and information. Answer: C
●● A nurse manager must implement a 2% budget cut on the nursing
unit. Which approach should the manager use to most effectively
empower the staff of the unit?
a. Discuss the guidelines for the budget cuts with the staff, making the
decisions with those who participate.
b. Inform the staff of the budget cuts in a series of small group meetings,
and accept their ideas in writing only.
c. Provide the staff with handouts about the budget cuts, and let them
make recommendations in writing.
d. Hold a series of mandatory meetings on the budget cuts, asking staff
for ideas on the cuts.. Answer: A
●● During orientation of new nurse managers, the chief nursing officer
stresses strategies that help nurse managers to achieve a powerful image.
Which groups of behaviors best contribute to a powerful image for the
nurse manager?
EXAMINATION TEST 2026 QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS FULLY VERIFIED
●● Nurses who engage in in-fighting, seek physician support against
nursing colleagues, and avoid membership in nursing organizations:
a. Refuse to believe that they are acting like members of groups that
suffer socioeconomic oppression.
b. Do not understand how their failure to exercise power can limit the
power of the whole profession.
c. Purposefully choose to exercise their power in the workplace through
indirect means.
d. Suffer from learned helplessness as a result of abuse by powerful
nurse executives.. Answer: B
●● A nurse belongs to several professional organizations, serving on a
state-level committee of one group and on two task forces at work. The
nurse is committed to a range of health issues. This nurse exemplifies
which level of political activism in nursing?
a. Gladiator
b. Buy-in
c. Self-interest
d. Political sophistication. Answer: D
, ●● A manager relies on his director (immediate supervisor) for advice
about enrolling in graduate school to prepare for a career as a nurse
executive. The director may exercise what kinds of power in the
relationship with the manager in this advisory situation?
a. Expert, coercive, and referent
b. Reward, connection, and information
c. Referent, expert, and information
d. Reward, referent, and information. Answer: C
●● A nurse manager must implement a 2% budget cut on the nursing
unit. Which approach should the manager use to most effectively
empower the staff of the unit?
a. Discuss the guidelines for the budget cuts with the staff, making the
decisions with those who participate.
b. Inform the staff of the budget cuts in a series of small group meetings,
and accept their ideas in writing only.
c. Provide the staff with handouts about the budget cuts, and let them
make recommendations in writing.
d. Hold a series of mandatory meetings on the budget cuts, asking staff
for ideas on the cuts.. Answer: A
●● During orientation of new nurse managers, the chief nursing officer
stresses strategies that help nurse managers to achieve a powerful image.
Which groups of behaviors best contribute to a powerful image for the
nurse manager?
