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Kelly Vana's Nursing Leadership and
Management 4th Edition by Vana & Tazbir
,Table of Contents:
Unit I: NURSING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT.
Chapter 1. Nursing Leadership and
Management. Chapter 2. The Healthcare
Environment.
Chapter 3. Organizational Behavior and Magnet Hospitals.
Chapter 4. Basic Clinical Healthcare Economics.
Chapter 5. Evidence-Based Health Care.
Chapter 6. Nursing and Healthcare Informatics.
Chapter 7. Population Based Healthcare Practice.
Unit II: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM.
Chapter 8. Personal and Interdisciplinary Communication.
Chapter 9. Politics and Consumer Partnerships.
Chapter 10. Strategic Planning and organizing Patient Care.
Chapter 11. Effective Team Building.
Chapter 12. Power.
Chapter 13. Change, Innovation, and Conflict Management.
Unit III: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT- CENTERED CARE.
Chapter 14. Budget Concepts for Patient Care.
Chapter 15. Effective StafÏng.
Chapter 16. Delegation of Patient Care.
Chapter 17. Organization of Patient Care Management.
Chapter 18. Time Management and SetÝng Patient Care Priorities.
Chapter 19. Patient and Health Care Education.
Unit IV: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF PATIENT OUTCOMES.
Chapter 20. Managing Outcomes Using an Organizational Quality Improvement
Model. Chapter 21. Evidence Based Strategies to Improve Patient Care Outcomes.
Chapter 22. Decision Making and Critical Thinking.
Chapter 23. Legal Aspects of Health Care.
Chapter 24. Ethical Aspects of Health Care.
Chapter 25. Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality.
Unit V: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF SELF AND THE FUTURE.
Chapter 26. Collective Bargaining.
Chapter 27. Career Planning.
Chapter 28. Nursing Job Opportunities.
Chapter 29. Your First Job.
Chapter 30. Healthy Living: Balancing Personal and Professional Needs.
Chapter 31. NCLEX Preparation and Professionalism
.
, Chapter 1: Nursing Leadership and Management
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. According to Henri Fayol, the functions of planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling
are considered which aspect of management?
a. Roles
b. Process
c. Functions
d. Taxonomy
ANS: B, The management process includes planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling. Management roles include
information processing, interpersonal relationships, and decision making. Management functions include planning,
organizing, stafÏng, directing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting. A taxonomy is a system that orders principles into a
grouping or classification.
2. Which of the following is considered a decisional managerial role?
a. Disseminator
b. Figurehead
c. Leader
d. Entrepreneur
ANS: D, The decisional managerial roles include entrepreneur, disturbance handler, allocator of resources, and negotiator.
The information processing managerial roles include monitor, disseminator, and spokesperson. The interpersonal
managerial roles include figurehead, leader, and liaison.
3. A nurse manager meets regularly with other nurse managers, participates on the
organizations committees, and attends meetings sponsored by professional organizations in
order to manage relationships. These activities are considered which function of a manager?
a. Informing
b. Problem solving
c. Monitoring
d. Networking
ANS: D, The role functions to manage relationships are networking, supporting, developing and mentoring, managing conflict
and team building, motivating and inspiring, recognizing, and rewarding. The role functions to manage the work are planning
and organizing, problem solving, clarifying roles and objectives, informing, monitoring, consulting, and delegating.
4. A nurse was recently promoted to a middle-level manager position. The nurses title would most
likely be which of the following?
a. First-line manager
b. Director
c. Vice president of patient care services
d. Chief nurse executive
ANS: B, A middle-level manager is called a director. A low managerial- level job is called the first-line manager. A nurse in
an executive level role is called a chief nurse executive or vice president of patient care services.
5. A nurse manager who uses Frederick Taylors scientific management approach, would most likely
focus on which of the following?
TEST BANK
Kelly Vana's Nursing Leadership and
Management 4th Edition by Vana & Tazbir
,Table of Contents:
Unit I: NURSING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT.
Chapter 1. Nursing Leadership and
Management. Chapter 2. The Healthcare
Environment.
Chapter 3. Organizational Behavior and Magnet Hospitals.
Chapter 4. Basic Clinical Healthcare Economics.
Chapter 5. Evidence-Based Health Care.
Chapter 6. Nursing and Healthcare Informatics.
Chapter 7. Population Based Healthcare Practice.
Unit II: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF THE INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM.
Chapter 8. Personal and Interdisciplinary Communication.
Chapter 9. Politics and Consumer Partnerships.
Chapter 10. Strategic Planning and organizing Patient Care.
Chapter 11. Effective Team Building.
Chapter 12. Power.
Chapter 13. Change, Innovation, and Conflict Management.
Unit III: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF PATIENT- CENTERED CARE.
Chapter 14. Budget Concepts for Patient Care.
Chapter 15. Effective StafÏng.
Chapter 16. Delegation of Patient Care.
Chapter 17. Organization of Patient Care Management.
Chapter 18. Time Management and SetÝng Patient Care Priorities.
Chapter 19. Patient and Health Care Education.
Unit IV: QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF PATIENT OUTCOMES.
Chapter 20. Managing Outcomes Using an Organizational Quality Improvement
Model. Chapter 21. Evidence Based Strategies to Improve Patient Care Outcomes.
Chapter 22. Decision Making and Critical Thinking.
Chapter 23. Legal Aspects of Health Care.
Chapter 24. Ethical Aspects of Health Care.
Chapter 25. Culture, Generational Differences, and Spirituality.
Unit V: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF SELF AND THE FUTURE.
Chapter 26. Collective Bargaining.
Chapter 27. Career Planning.
Chapter 28. Nursing Job Opportunities.
Chapter 29. Your First Job.
Chapter 30. Healthy Living: Balancing Personal and Professional Needs.
Chapter 31. NCLEX Preparation and Professionalism
.
, Chapter 1: Nursing Leadership and Management
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. According to Henri Fayol, the functions of planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling
are considered which aspect of management?
a. Roles
b. Process
c. Functions
d. Taxonomy
ANS: B, The management process includes planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling. Management roles include
information processing, interpersonal relationships, and decision making. Management functions include planning,
organizing, stafÏng, directing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting. A taxonomy is a system that orders principles into a
grouping or classification.
2. Which of the following is considered a decisional managerial role?
a. Disseminator
b. Figurehead
c. Leader
d. Entrepreneur
ANS: D, The decisional managerial roles include entrepreneur, disturbance handler, allocator of resources, and negotiator.
The information processing managerial roles include monitor, disseminator, and spokesperson. The interpersonal
managerial roles include figurehead, leader, and liaison.
3. A nurse manager meets regularly with other nurse managers, participates on the
organizations committees, and attends meetings sponsored by professional organizations in
order to manage relationships. These activities are considered which function of a manager?
a. Informing
b. Problem solving
c. Monitoring
d. Networking
ANS: D, The role functions to manage relationships are networking, supporting, developing and mentoring, managing conflict
and team building, motivating and inspiring, recognizing, and rewarding. The role functions to manage the work are planning
and organizing, problem solving, clarifying roles and objectives, informing, monitoring, consulting, and delegating.
4. A nurse was recently promoted to a middle-level manager position. The nurses title would most
likely be which of the following?
a. First-line manager
b. Director
c. Vice president of patient care services
d. Chief nurse executive
ANS: B, A middle-level manager is called a director. A low managerial- level job is called the first-line manager. A nurse in
an executive level role is called a chief nurse executive or vice president of patient care services.
5. A nurse manager who uses Frederick Taylors scientific management approach, would most likely
focus on which of the following?
