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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
CORRECT ANSWER: 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, staffing, 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
CORRECT ANSWER: 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.
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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
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CORRECT ANSWER: 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
CORRECT ANSWER: 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
a. General principles
b. Positional authority
c. Labor productivity
d. Impersonal relations
CORRECT ANSWER: C, The area of focus for scientific management is labor
productivity. In bureaucratic theory, efficiency is achieved through impersonal
relations within a formal structure and is based on positional authority.
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TEST BANK For Essentials of Nursing Leadership &
Management 8th Edition by Sally A. Weiss, Verified Chapters 1
- 16, Complete Newest Version
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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
CORRECT ANSWER: 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, staffing, 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
CORRECT ANSWER: 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.
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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
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CORRECT ANSWER: 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
CORRECT ANSWER: 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
a. General principles
b. Positional authority
c. Labor productivity
d. Impersonal relations
CORRECT ANSWER: C, The area of focus for scientific management is labor
productivity. In bureaucratic theory, efficiency is achieved through impersonal
relations within a formal structure and is based on positional authority.
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