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Nursing Leadership Questions Questions
Question 1 of 5
You have been asked to participate in strategic planning for your organization. As part of the planning process, you review staff turnover rates and patient satisfaction surveys. High turnover rates and low patient satisfaction scores MOST likely suggest:
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: High turnover and low patient satisfaction often tie to disengagement staff not involved in decisions feel powerless, impacting care quality. Poor staff or admin relations could contribute, but involvement addresses root causes, as Magnet® studies show: participation cuts turnover, lifts satisfaction. Hiring more staff treats symptoms, not culture. Strategic planning with this data points to empowering nurses, a systemic fix aligning with organizational health and patient outcomes.
Question 2 of 5
The capacity to learn and adapt to the requirements for survival in one's culture is called:
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Intelligence is learning/adapting, unlike memory, emotion, or learning. Nurse leaders like adapting protocols embody this, contrasting with static skills. In healthcare, it's survival, aligning leadership with adaptability.
Question 3 of 5
The nurse-manager is faced with a difficult decision in a situation that involves the manager's values. What is the manager's best action?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Facing a value-laden decision, the nurse-manager's best move is reflecting on personal values like duty to staff over intuition, suppression, or deferral. Values (e.g., fairness) shape choices unconsciously; awareness mitigates bias. In a unit dilemma, say cutting hours, reflection reveals if equity drives the call, ensuring rational yet human decisions. Intuition lacks grounding, sidelining values is impossible, and deferring dodges responsibility. Leadership demands this self-insight to align actions with care ethics, maintaining a safe environment where staff trust reflects patient trust, a cornerstone of effective nursing management.
Question 4 of 5
In a nurse managers' meeting, strategies for ways to help retain staff are discussed. One strategy for assisting nurses in developing collective action skills is:
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Mentoring helps nurses build collective action skills like decision-making and collaboration by pairing them with experienced guides who model optimism and trust, key to retention. In this meeting, discussing retention strategies, mentoring stands out as it fosters skill development through real-world interaction, unlike passive conformity ('going along'), which stifles initiative. Workshops offer knowledge but lack personalized guidance, and clinical time alone doesn't teach collective skills. Mentoring, as research supports, reduces turnover by enhancing job satisfaction and collective efficacy, making it a practical, impactful approach for nurse managers to implement.
Question 5 of 5
Stress reducing techniques are
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: A meditation, breathing, etc. reduces stress. Nurse leaders use these, like calming during chaos, contrasting with unrelated skills. In healthcare, it prevents burnout, aligning leadership with resilience.