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Nursing Leadership Practice Questions Questions
Question 1 of 9
As a nurse manager, one challenge is to orient new staff to your agency's policies and procedures, as well as to provide training across various shifts. A cost-effective and effective learning strategy would be:
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Orienting staff across shifts to policies and procedures demands a flexible, accessible solution. Preparing DVDs for viewing at nursing stations during downtime is cost-effective requiring only initial production and effective, as staff can learn at their pace during quieter moments, accommodating varied schedules. New modules and software are costly and time-intensive to develop. E-mailing policies risks low engagement and assumes home access, which may not suit all. Network linking offers access but lacks structured training. DVDs balance cost, convenience, and learning, ensuring staff absorb critical information without disrupting workflow or requiring extensive resources.
Question 2 of 9
Interpersonal communication does not include
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Stress isn't communication, unlike listening, communication, or negotiation. Nurse leaders like talks focus on skills, contrasting with effects. In healthcare, it's interaction, aligning leadership with process.
Question 3 of 9
The nurse is assessing a client with possible appendicitis. Which of the following findings should the nurse expect?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: In possible appendicitis, rebound tenderness in the right lower quadrant is expected, not pain relief with pressure, absent bowel sounds, or just fever/chills. Rebound pain on release signals peritoneal irritation, unlike relief or silence (more obstructive). Fever's common but nonspecific. Leadership anticipates this imagine a wincing patient; it prompts urgent surgical consult, preventing rupture. This reflects nursing's acute abdomen assessment, ensuring timely intervention effectively.
Question 4 of 9
Being habitually ___ can contribute to depression and chronic unhappiness.
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Private self-consciousness risks depression. Nurse leaders overly introspective might fixate on flaws, like a tough shift, contrasting with balanced regulation. In healthcare, moderation prevents burnout, aligning leadership with mental resilience.
Question 5 of 9
As a nurse manager, you introduce a program that encourages staff to report equipment malfunctions immediately and suggest improvements. Your rationale is that this program:
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Reporting malfunctions and suggesting fixes like a faulty pump boosts equipment reliability, cutting care disruptions. It doesn't cut accountability, harm safety, or hike control staff input grows. In your unit, this ensures tools work, aligning with safety where reliable gear supports outcomes, as in error trends, enhancing care via proactive nurse action.
Question 6 of 9
Non-verbal communication includes
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Signs/gestures are non-verbal, unlike negotiation, decision-making, or both. Nurse leaders like reading body language leverage this, contrasting with verbal. In healthcare, it enhances understanding, aligning leadership with subtle cues.
Question 7 of 9
Participative leadership has which of the following characteristics
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Participative leadership involves staff in decisions B is correct. Nurse leaders, like consulting on care plans, contrast with reward-based or mood-focused styles. In healthcare, this boosts ownership and innovation, aligning leadership with teamwork over top-down directives.
Question 8 of 9
As a new nursing professional development practitioner, the mastery of which skill is most important?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Communication is most critical, unlike coordination, resources, or facilitation. Nurse managers convey like clear goals contrasting with logistics. It's foundational in healthcare for alignment, aligning leadership with influence.
Question 9 of 9
Team Member A and Team Member B engage in heated disagreements on a frequent basis in team meetings. Their behavior is characterized by insistence on their points of view and refusal to back down or to negotiate alternative solutions once their ideas have been expressed. This behavior is characteristic of:
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Their rigid, unyielding stance reflects dualism viewing issues as black-or-white, right-or-wrong common in our society, limiting negotiation. This stifles creativity (exploring options), isn't constructive conflict (problem-solving), and isn't autocratic leadership (one-sided control). In meetings, this binary mindset blocks team synergy, mirroring the unit's broader tensions, where flexibility could unlock broader possibilities, but dualism keeps them entrenched.