Leadership Roles and Management of Nursing – Chapters 1–6 – Study Guide & Practice
Questions
A nurse-manager has made a decision and is now preparing to evaluate the decision. What
question should best guide the nurse's evaluation process? - ✔✔Did the outcomes align with
the original objectives?
A nurse-manager is planning to apply a decision-making model to a clinical challenge. When
using a decision-making tool, what should the manager do? - ✔✔Be aware that the tool
cannot eliminate the risk of human error
What statement by a manager best reflects the principles of interactional leadership? -
✔✔"People's motives are important, and motives change over time."
What action by the nurse-manager in a health organization best demonstrates transformational
leadership? - ✔✔The manager holds a workshop to outline a new vision for patient-centered
care.
A manager demonstrates one of the four principles of scientific management when he or she: -
✔✔hires and promotes employees on the basis of their competence and skills.
What characteristic of a nurse-manager suggests that he or she is acting in the role of a
traditional manager rather than an integrated leader-manager? - ✔✔The manager's influence
is limited to his or her group.
A nurse-manager has recently been accused of assigning work unequally. The manager has
recognized the need to revise the process for assigning work to nurses. How can the manager
best apply the principles of Theory Z? - ✔✔Gathering input from employees in order to reach
a consensus
, What action by a nurse-manager best demonstrates servant leadership? - ✔✔Prioritizing the
interests of others over the manager's own interests
A nurse-manager has proposed a change in the skills mix on a hospital unit, with fewer
registered nurses and more nursing assistants. What outcome best demonstrates that the nurse
is applying the principles of thought leadership? - ✔✔Skeptics of the plan have begun to see it
as innovative and beneficial.
Which activity best supports the principles of strengths-based leadership in a health-care
organization? - ✔✔Funding for staff to become educated in areas where they are naturally
talented
Two nurses have approached the manager and have asked the manager to speak to a nurse on
the unit who has a reputation for being difficult to get along with. How can the manager best
implement Avolio, Walumbwa, and Weber's model of authentic leadership? - ✔✔Analyze the
facts of the situation before making a decision
A nurse has been hired to oversee a day surgery clinic. What action will best ensure good
outcomes for this nurse, the clients, and the employees of the clinic? - ✔✔Integrate nursing
management and nursing leadership roles and practices
To decrease overtime, the manager of a surgical unit offers nurses who get their work finished
on time for an entire 2-month period an extra day off with pay at regular time. The nurse is
enacting what model of leadership? - ✔✔Principal agent theory
A new leader-manager is planning to implement the principles of strengths-based leadership
after being hired for a new position. What action will best facilitate this plan? - ✔✔Identifying
his or her personal strengths and utilizing them
A nurse is applying the MORAL decision-making model to a dilemma involving a colleague's
possible dishonesty in documentation. What is the nurse's initial action? - ✔✔Gather as much
information about the situation as possible
Questions
A nurse-manager has made a decision and is now preparing to evaluate the decision. What
question should best guide the nurse's evaluation process? - ✔✔Did the outcomes align with
the original objectives?
A nurse-manager is planning to apply a decision-making model to a clinical challenge. When
using a decision-making tool, what should the manager do? - ✔✔Be aware that the tool
cannot eliminate the risk of human error
What statement by a manager best reflects the principles of interactional leadership? -
✔✔"People's motives are important, and motives change over time."
What action by the nurse-manager in a health organization best demonstrates transformational
leadership? - ✔✔The manager holds a workshop to outline a new vision for patient-centered
care.
A manager demonstrates one of the four principles of scientific management when he or she: -
✔✔hires and promotes employees on the basis of their competence and skills.
What characteristic of a nurse-manager suggests that he or she is acting in the role of a
traditional manager rather than an integrated leader-manager? - ✔✔The manager's influence
is limited to his or her group.
A nurse-manager has recently been accused of assigning work unequally. The manager has
recognized the need to revise the process for assigning work to nurses. How can the manager
best apply the principles of Theory Z? - ✔✔Gathering input from employees in order to reach
a consensus
, What action by a nurse-manager best demonstrates servant leadership? - ✔✔Prioritizing the
interests of others over the manager's own interests
A nurse-manager has proposed a change in the skills mix on a hospital unit, with fewer
registered nurses and more nursing assistants. What outcome best demonstrates that the nurse
is applying the principles of thought leadership? - ✔✔Skeptics of the plan have begun to see it
as innovative and beneficial.
Which activity best supports the principles of strengths-based leadership in a health-care
organization? - ✔✔Funding for staff to become educated in areas where they are naturally
talented
Two nurses have approached the manager and have asked the manager to speak to a nurse on
the unit who has a reputation for being difficult to get along with. How can the manager best
implement Avolio, Walumbwa, and Weber's model of authentic leadership? - ✔✔Analyze the
facts of the situation before making a decision
A nurse has been hired to oversee a day surgery clinic. What action will best ensure good
outcomes for this nurse, the clients, and the employees of the clinic? - ✔✔Integrate nursing
management and nursing leadership roles and practices
To decrease overtime, the manager of a surgical unit offers nurses who get their work finished
on time for an entire 2-month period an extra day off with pay at regular time. The nurse is
enacting what model of leadership? - ✔✔Principal agent theory
A new leader-manager is planning to implement the principles of strengths-based leadership
after being hired for a new position. What action will best facilitate this plan? - ✔✔Identifying
his or her personal strengths and utilizing them
A nurse is applying the MORAL decision-making model to a dilemma involving a colleague's
possible dishonesty in documentation. What is the nurse's initial action? - ✔✔Gather as much
information about the situation as possible
