NURS 3720 LEADERSHIP EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What is leadership? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Using individual traits and personal power to interact
constructively to resolve problems
- The process of engaging and influencing others
- Canadian Nurses Association's position statement
- Ability of any nurse to be a nurse leader, regardless of the personality type, gender, ethnicity, or age
What is management? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ensuring that people have the necessary resources to
get the job done
What is followership? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Involves engaging with others who are leading or
managing, by contributing to the work that needs to be done.
What is appreciative inquiry and the five-dimensional cycle? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- It is associated
with how people question and solve problems
- 1. definition, 2. discovery, 3. dream, 4. design, and 5. destiny
What is trait leadership theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- The idea that leaders have a certain set of
physical and emotional characteristics that are crucial for inspiring others
- Self-awareness of traits is useful for assessing personal strengths
- "The Great Man Theory" - being born with leadership traits
What are style leadership theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Consider how leaders behave
- Based on task and relationship behaviours
- Leaders need to develop both types of behaviours to be successful
What are situational-contingency leadership theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- The effectiveness of
leadership depends on situational factors: Path-goal theory: the leader's behaviour should be contingent
on task and follower characteristics
,- Nursing leaders must assess each situation as unique and determine appropriate actions accordingly
What are transformational leadership theories and the 4 I's? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Leaders and
followers set higher goals and work together to achieve them
- Idealized, Influence, Individuated consideration, and Inspirational motivation
What are authentic leadership theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Leaders are aware of their own
values and moral convictions and are constantly realigning their actions to match their values
- Authentic leadership is strongly associated with followers' trust in their leaders and followers' positive
emotions
What are management theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Taylor (1947): the founder of "scientific
management" and the "efficiency movement"
- Mintzberg (1990): organizational structures and processes
- Followership theories
What is complexity science? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- The study of complex systems: "the patterns of
relationships within them, how they are sustained, how they self-organize, and how outcomes emerge"
- Nurses must be flexible and dynamic to keep up with the ever-changing systems of people, healthcare,
public policy, and human relationships
- Networking, attractors, emergence, systems thinking, and the butterfly effect
What are the three competency domains for leadership management? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-
Managing the business
- Leading within
- Leading people
What are some key competencies for nurse leaders in the 21st century? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-
Interactive leadership: different actors within the health system
- Empowerment of operational leaders: look at new mechanisms and build and learning health system
- Involvement of communities, patients, and families in the health dialogue
, - Involvement of communities, patients, and families in the health dialogue
- Increasing evidence and research to understand leadership in different health systems
What is imposter phenomenon? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Self-doubt in one's ability to function
adequately in one's role
- Common in novice nurses and novice leaders
- May prevent nurses from taking advantage of leadership opportunities because of feelings of
inadequacy
Health informatics competencies allow nurses to: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Address new health
challenges by using technology to retrieve the best available evidence
- Communicate findings and changes
- Understand information management
What are the 6 P's of social media use? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Keep it Positive
- Maintain the Privacy of others
- Keep is Professional
- Keep it Person-free (no specific reference to others)
- Protect your Professionalism
- Always Pause before posting
What are some task-focused leadership styles? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Autocratic leadership
- Laissez-faire and Instrumental leadership
What are some relational leadership styles? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Emotional intelligence leadership
- Resonant leadership
- Participatory leadership
What is the impact of leadership? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Patient outcomes
ANSWERS
What is leadership? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Using individual traits and personal power to interact
constructively to resolve problems
- The process of engaging and influencing others
- Canadian Nurses Association's position statement
- Ability of any nurse to be a nurse leader, regardless of the personality type, gender, ethnicity, or age
What is management? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Ensuring that people have the necessary resources to
get the job done
What is followership? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Involves engaging with others who are leading or
managing, by contributing to the work that needs to be done.
What is appreciative inquiry and the five-dimensional cycle? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- It is associated
with how people question and solve problems
- 1. definition, 2. discovery, 3. dream, 4. design, and 5. destiny
What is trait leadership theory? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- The idea that leaders have a certain set of
physical and emotional characteristics that are crucial for inspiring others
- Self-awareness of traits is useful for assessing personal strengths
- "The Great Man Theory" - being born with leadership traits
What are style leadership theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Consider how leaders behave
- Based on task and relationship behaviours
- Leaders need to develop both types of behaviours to be successful
What are situational-contingency leadership theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- The effectiveness of
leadership depends on situational factors: Path-goal theory: the leader's behaviour should be contingent
on task and follower characteristics
,- Nursing leaders must assess each situation as unique and determine appropriate actions accordingly
What are transformational leadership theories and the 4 I's? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Leaders and
followers set higher goals and work together to achieve them
- Idealized, Influence, Individuated consideration, and Inspirational motivation
What are authentic leadership theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Leaders are aware of their own
values and moral convictions and are constantly realigning their actions to match their values
- Authentic leadership is strongly associated with followers' trust in their leaders and followers' positive
emotions
What are management theories? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Taylor (1947): the founder of "scientific
management" and the "efficiency movement"
- Mintzberg (1990): organizational structures and processes
- Followership theories
What is complexity science? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- The study of complex systems: "the patterns of
relationships within them, how they are sustained, how they self-organize, and how outcomes emerge"
- Nurses must be flexible and dynamic to keep up with the ever-changing systems of people, healthcare,
public policy, and human relationships
- Networking, attractors, emergence, systems thinking, and the butterfly effect
What are the three competency domains for leadership management? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-
Managing the business
- Leading within
- Leading people
What are some key competencies for nurse leaders in the 21st century? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅-
Interactive leadership: different actors within the health system
- Empowerment of operational leaders: look at new mechanisms and build and learning health system
- Involvement of communities, patients, and families in the health dialogue
, - Involvement of communities, patients, and families in the health dialogue
- Increasing evidence and research to understand leadership in different health systems
What is imposter phenomenon? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Self-doubt in one's ability to function
adequately in one's role
- Common in novice nurses and novice leaders
- May prevent nurses from taking advantage of leadership opportunities because of feelings of
inadequacy
Health informatics competencies allow nurses to: - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Address new health
challenges by using technology to retrieve the best available evidence
- Communicate findings and changes
- Understand information management
What are the 6 P's of social media use? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Keep it Positive
- Maintain the Privacy of others
- Keep is Professional
- Keep it Person-free (no specific reference to others)
- Protect your Professionalism
- Always Pause before posting
What are some task-focused leadership styles? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Autocratic leadership
- Laissez-faire and Instrumental leadership
What are some relational leadership styles? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Emotional intelligence leadership
- Resonant leadership
- Participatory leadership
What is the impact of leadership? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅- Patient outcomes
