ATI RN LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
PROCTORED EXAM PREPARATION PACK 2026
KEY CONCEPTS AND REVISION NOTES
◉ structure vs people leader.
Answer: only in context of relationships
---no followers=no leader needed
◉ status quo vs innovation manager.
Answer: maintains/manages status quo
◉ status quo vs innovation leader.
Answer: implement new processes/innovation to create desired
future
◉ bottom line vs horizon manager.
Answer: within budget?
meeting goals?
whats the deadline?
productivity improvement
,◉ bottom line vs horizon leader.
Answer: see beyond bottom line to future
engage employees to feel passionate partnership
◉ Avoidance Leadership.
Answer: dont act responsibly, efficaciously, decisively to effect
change
3 types- placating, equivocal, hostile
◉ placating avoidance.
Answer: make (someone) less angry or hostile
◉ equivocal avoidance.
Answer: ambiguous/ambivalent response
lack of commitment to work
◉ hostile avoidance.
Answer: construes input from workers as malicious when not
threats and counterattacks
◉ Maslow's hierarchy.
Answer: Self actualization.
,Self esteem.
love and belonging.
Safety and security.
Physiological.
◉ Assessment/data collection first.
Answer: Use the nursing process to gather pertinent information
prior to making a decision regarding a plan of action. For example,
determine if additional information is needed prior to calling the
provider to ask for pain medication for a client.
◉ Airway breathing circulation (ABC) framework.
Answer: Airway- patent/stabilization of spine
Breathing-RR, depth, etc.
Circulation- HR, BP, Cap refill
Disability- LOC
Exposure- heat/cold
◉ Licensed personnel.
Answer: Nurses who have completed a course of study, successfully
passed either the NCLEX-PN or NCLEX-RN exam, and have a nursing
license issued by a board of nursing.
, ◉ Assistive personnel.
Answer: Specifically trained to function in an assistive role to
licensed nurses in client care activities.
These individuals can be nursing personnel, such as certified
nursing assistants (CNAs) or certified medical assistants (CMAs) or
they can be nonnursing personnel to whom nursing activities can be
delegated, such as dialysis technicians, monitor technicians, and
phlebotomists. Some health care entities can differentiate between
nurse and nonnurse assistive personnel by using the acronym NAP
for nursing assistive personnel.
◉ Assigning.
Answer: transferring authority, accountability and responsibility of
your patient to another health care member
power not transferred
direct assignment part of job description
◉ Delegating.
Answer: transferring authority and responsibility to another team
member to complete a task, while retaining the accountability.
direct assignment is not part of routine job description
◉ Supervising.
PROCTORED EXAM PREPARATION PACK 2026
KEY CONCEPTS AND REVISION NOTES
◉ structure vs people leader.
Answer: only in context of relationships
---no followers=no leader needed
◉ status quo vs innovation manager.
Answer: maintains/manages status quo
◉ status quo vs innovation leader.
Answer: implement new processes/innovation to create desired
future
◉ bottom line vs horizon manager.
Answer: within budget?
meeting goals?
whats the deadline?
productivity improvement
,◉ bottom line vs horizon leader.
Answer: see beyond bottom line to future
engage employees to feel passionate partnership
◉ Avoidance Leadership.
Answer: dont act responsibly, efficaciously, decisively to effect
change
3 types- placating, equivocal, hostile
◉ placating avoidance.
Answer: make (someone) less angry or hostile
◉ equivocal avoidance.
Answer: ambiguous/ambivalent response
lack of commitment to work
◉ hostile avoidance.
Answer: construes input from workers as malicious when not
threats and counterattacks
◉ Maslow's hierarchy.
Answer: Self actualization.
,Self esteem.
love and belonging.
Safety and security.
Physiological.
◉ Assessment/data collection first.
Answer: Use the nursing process to gather pertinent information
prior to making a decision regarding a plan of action. For example,
determine if additional information is needed prior to calling the
provider to ask for pain medication for a client.
◉ Airway breathing circulation (ABC) framework.
Answer: Airway- patent/stabilization of spine
Breathing-RR, depth, etc.
Circulation- HR, BP, Cap refill
Disability- LOC
Exposure- heat/cold
◉ Licensed personnel.
Answer: Nurses who have completed a course of study, successfully
passed either the NCLEX-PN or NCLEX-RN exam, and have a nursing
license issued by a board of nursing.
, ◉ Assistive personnel.
Answer: Specifically trained to function in an assistive role to
licensed nurses in client care activities.
These individuals can be nursing personnel, such as certified
nursing assistants (CNAs) or certified medical assistants (CMAs) or
they can be nonnursing personnel to whom nursing activities can be
delegated, such as dialysis technicians, monitor technicians, and
phlebotomists. Some health care entities can differentiate between
nurse and nonnurse assistive personnel by using the acronym NAP
for nursing assistive personnel.
◉ Assigning.
Answer: transferring authority, accountability and responsibility of
your patient to another health care member
power not transferred
direct assignment part of job description
◉ Delegating.
Answer: transferring authority and responsibility to another team
member to complete a task, while retaining the accountability.
direct assignment is not part of routine job description
◉ Supervising.
