Healthcare Leadership – Exam 1 2026 – Study Guide and Practice Questions
how is leadership holistic? - correct answer ✔✔ leadership requires leading laterally and
collaboratively and not just upper echelons in a top-down approach
evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔✔ clinical decision making that integrates the
empirical evidence from outcome and structure of practice, with clinical expertise and patient
characteristics and preferences
Why study leadership? - correct answer ✔✔ Its all around us and we will all be leaders at one
point
helps people have something specula that makes other feel good
Four States of Knowing - correct answer ✔✔ unconscious incompetence, conscious
incompetence, conscious competence, unconscious competence
What's the duty of a healthcare leader? - correct answer ✔✔ to merge the complexity of
managing resources into a culture that serves communities by maintaining and improving the
patients health
Great leadership requires - correct answer ✔✔ 1. communication, knowledge and skills
2. emotional intelligence
3. understanding relationships b/w trust and understanding
4. be flexible and adaptive
5. have strong integrity
Leadership as an art - correct answer ✔✔ encompasses relationships, interpersonal skills,
power and intuition
, relationship oriented, decision based on perception
Leadership as a science - correct answer ✔✔ embodied technical acumen, skills and principles
budgeting, decisions based on analysis and expert system
healthcare manager - correct answer ✔✔ is more reactive & stays more closely coupled to
organizational policies, standards, guidelines & established processes
Healthcare Leader - correct answer ✔✔ more proactive and involved in developing
organizational culture
look for employees and create vision
situation phase of leadership - correct answer ✔✔ explains effective leadership w/in the
context of larger work of situation
descriptive vs. prescriptive theory - correct answer ✔✔ descriptive illustrated a phenomena and
a prescriptive does the same but provides recommendation w/ regard to action or process
three lessons from McRaven - correct answer ✔✔ 1. make the bed
2. have people help you paddle
3. measure people by the size of their heart not slipper
Four types of learning - correct answer ✔✔ visual, aural, reading & writing and kinesthetic
how is leadership holistic? - correct answer ✔✔ leadership requires leading laterally and
collaboratively and not just upper echelons in a top-down approach
evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔✔ clinical decision making that integrates the
empirical evidence from outcome and structure of practice, with clinical expertise and patient
characteristics and preferences
Why study leadership? - correct answer ✔✔ Its all around us and we will all be leaders at one
point
helps people have something specula that makes other feel good
Four States of Knowing - correct answer ✔✔ unconscious incompetence, conscious
incompetence, conscious competence, unconscious competence
What's the duty of a healthcare leader? - correct answer ✔✔ to merge the complexity of
managing resources into a culture that serves communities by maintaining and improving the
patients health
Great leadership requires - correct answer ✔✔ 1. communication, knowledge and skills
2. emotional intelligence
3. understanding relationships b/w trust and understanding
4. be flexible and adaptive
5. have strong integrity
Leadership as an art - correct answer ✔✔ encompasses relationships, interpersonal skills,
power and intuition
, relationship oriented, decision based on perception
Leadership as a science - correct answer ✔✔ embodied technical acumen, skills and principles
budgeting, decisions based on analysis and expert system
healthcare manager - correct answer ✔✔ is more reactive & stays more closely coupled to
organizational policies, standards, guidelines & established processes
Healthcare Leader - correct answer ✔✔ more proactive and involved in developing
organizational culture
look for employees and create vision
situation phase of leadership - correct answer ✔✔ explains effective leadership w/in the
context of larger work of situation
descriptive vs. prescriptive theory - correct answer ✔✔ descriptive illustrated a phenomena and
a prescriptive does the same but provides recommendation w/ regard to action or process
three lessons from McRaven - correct answer ✔✔ 1. make the bed
2. have people help you paddle
3. measure people by the size of their heart not slipper
Four types of learning - correct answer ✔✔ visual, aural, reading & writing and kinesthetic
