Nursing Leadership and Delegation: Key
Concepts in Authority, Responsibility,
and Patient Care
1. Questions
1. ID: 9477029451
A nurse employed in a community hospital as a nurse
manager understands that in this position, the term
authority most appropriately refers to:
A. Being responsible for what staff members
do
B. Accepting the responsibility for the actions
of others
C. Carrying the legal responsibility for
others’ performance oftasks
D. The official power to see that an
organizational decision isenforced Correct
, Awarded 1.0 points out of 1.0 possible points.
2. 2.ID: 9477024200
Which action by the nurse represents the ethical
principle of beneficence?
A. The nurse upholds a client’s decision to
refuse chemotherapyfor lung cancer.
B. The nurse follows a plan of care designed
, to relieve pain in aclient with cancer.
C. The nurse administers an immunization to
a child even thoughit may cause discomfort.
Correct
, D. The nurse provides equal amounts of
care to all assignedclients on the basis of
illness acuity.
Awarded 1.0 points out of 1.0 possible points.
Concepts in Authority, Responsibility,
and Patient Care
1. Questions
1. ID: 9477029451
A nurse employed in a community hospital as a nurse
manager understands that in this position, the term
authority most appropriately refers to:
A. Being responsible for what staff members
do
B. Accepting the responsibility for the actions
of others
C. Carrying the legal responsibility for
others’ performance oftasks
D. The official power to see that an
organizational decision isenforced Correct
, Awarded 1.0 points out of 1.0 possible points.
2. 2.ID: 9477024200
Which action by the nurse represents the ethical
principle of beneficence?
A. The nurse upholds a client’s decision to
refuse chemotherapyfor lung cancer.
B. The nurse follows a plan of care designed
, to relieve pain in aclient with cancer.
C. The nurse administers an immunization to
a child even thoughit may cause discomfort.
Correct
, D. The nurse provides equal amounts of
care to all assignedclients on the basis of
illness acuity.
Awarded 1.0 points out of 1.0 possible points.
