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Nursing Leadership Practice Questions Questions
Question 1 of 9
Martin, the unit manager, receives complaints from community agencies that patients who have been discharged from his unit seem to lack understanding about their disorder and immediate strategies for managing elements of their care. Martin checks the patient teaching sheets and notes that the sheets are initialed by staff. He calls the agencies and indicates that teaching has been done. Martin's follow-up to complaints from the community is:
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Accountability means ensuring outcomes like patients understanding their care not just completing tasks. Martin's response, relying on initialed sheets and asserting teaching was done, misses the mark if patients remain uninformed, showing a gap in grasping accountability. It's not about supporting staff autonomy or delineating community roles but achieving effective education. His follow-up lacks investigation or action to address the disconnect, suggesting a focus on process over results, contrary to accountability's demand for measurable impact.
Question 2 of 9
A client with a history of osteoporosis is prescribed alendronate. Which instruction should the nurse include?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: For alendronate in osteoporosis, take with a full glass of water, not lying down, with meals, or calcium. Water prevents esophageal irritation lying risks reflux, food or calcium blocks absorption. Leadership teaches this imagine heartburn; it ensures efficacy, aligning with bone care effectively.
Question 3 of 9
As a member of a hospital task force, you advocate for a policy that provides staff nurses with paid time off to attend professional development workshops. Your rationale is that professional development:
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Paid workshop time lets nurses gain skills e.g., new protocols improving patient care, like better outcomes or safety. It's not about authority, satisfaction drops, or conflict knowledge rises. On the task force, you push this to upskill staff, aligning with healthcare's quality push, as trained nurses enhance practice, a strategic boost to care delivery and professional growth.
Question 4 of 9
A nurse manager is experiencing conflicts between herself and staff members. She had tried to develop a team by using a shared leadership model to empower the staff. Staff members are functioning:
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: A team requires unity in purpose and mutual accountability, which a shared leadership model aims to foster. Here, conflicts suggest staff aren't cohesive functioning as a group, a collection of individuals working together but lacking the interdependence or commitment of a team. Independent action implies solo work, not evident in this context, and interdependence requires collaboration, which conflicts disrupt. The staff's disconnection from the manager's vision indicates a group dynamic, not a unified team, highlighting a failure to fully embrace shared leadership's collaborative ethos.
Question 5 of 9
As a nurse manager who is new to the organization, you spend time talking with staff about their perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of the unit. Staff tell you that patient satisfaction is high but that staff often feel stressed by workload and by the number of very ill patients on the unit. Your BEST response would be to:
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Asking staff for workload solutions taps their insight e.g., task delegation empowering them and addressing stress practically, fitting your new role. Requesting staff risks empty promises, dismissing workload as expected ignores their strain, and sharing experiences sidesteps action. High patient satisfaction with stressed staff signals imbalance; engaging them collaboratively builds trust and targets relief, aligning with participative management to tackle unit-specific challenges effectively.
Question 6 of 9
You are asked by your instructor to discuss about Contingency Theory. What should you are included in your discussion?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Contingency Theory links behavior to personality and situation, unlike security, inspiration, or missing. Nurse managers like adapting in crises apply this, contrasting with fixed styles. It's key in healthcare's variability, aligning leadership with flexibility (assumed A).
Question 7 of 9
You document your patient's vital signs into a bedside documentation device and are able to compare your patient's vital signs with patients who have similar diagnoses and similar medications, and who are of a similar age. You are accessing:
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: This scenario involves accessing a database, a structured collection of patient data that allows comparison of vital signs across individuals with similar diagnoses, medications, and ages. Bedside documentation devices feed into such databases, enabling nurses to analyze trends and contextualize a patient's status against a broader population. E-mail is for communication, not data comparison. Telecommunications involves remote interaction, not local data analysis. Technology is a broad term encompassing the device and database, but the specific action here is database access. This capability enhances clinical decision-making by providing comparative insights, critical for personalized care.
Question 8 of 9
People are more likely to act in line with personal beliefs than to conform to social pressures when they are
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Private self-awareness aligns with beliefs, unlike esteem, public, or regulation. Nurse leaders like integrity act thus, contrasting with pressure. In healthcare, it ensures authenticity, aligning leadership with values.
Question 9 of 9
A nurse manager was orienting new staff members to computerized charting. To understand computerized charting, staff members must understand informatics. The three core concepts in informatics are:
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Informatics is a foundational concept in modern healthcare, particularly with the integration of technology like computerized charting. It involves understanding how raw facts are collected, processed into meaningful insights, and applied to improve patient care. The process begins with data, which are unprocessed facts such as a patient's vital signs. These are then organized into information, such as a chart showing trends in those vital signs over time. Finally, knowledge emerges when this information is interpreted, such as recognizing a pattern that indicates a need for intervention. This progression is critical for nurses to effectively use electronic systems, ensuring accurate documentation and informed decision-making. Other options, like hardware and software, are tools rather than core concepts, while decision-making and reporting are outcomes of informatics, not its essence. Similarly, specific technologies like wireless devices are applications, not the foundational principles.